Should ASEAN Be Australia's Priority

Radio National's Big Ideas program broadcast a panel discussion put together by Former Alfred Deakin Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Dr Sally Percival Wood, for the Australia-ASEAN 40th Anniversary conference in December 2014.

It's been 40 years of Australia-ASEAN partnership. But what's ASEAN to Australia – really? Australia's politics and businesses seem to be far more occupied with the 'great power'-relationships of China and the US. And this has to change says our panel of experts on Big Ideas right after the news. Australia should make ASEAN its priority, otherwise we'll not be able to fully embrace the Asian century.

Aired: Wednesday 25 February 2015 8:05PM

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