TEGAN BRINK: Australia and SA not bit players in games of great powers
Why middle power diplomacy matters
14 July 2023 - 05:00
In its first week in office in 1972, the Whitlam government took a stand against apartheid in banning SA sporting teams from entering Australia.
It took this action because it was the right thing to do. It led, under subsequent prime minister Malcolm Fraser, to Australia enacting and promoting economic sanctions against SA. By the mid-1980s all major economies had done so, strangling the apartheid regime and helping lead to its negotiated demise...
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