The Australian government's changing attitudes towards Southern Africa: more than just words of sympathy for the Blacks?

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Title:	The Australian government's changing attitudes towards Southern Africa: more than just words of sympathy for the Blacks?
Author:	Woldring, Klaas
Year:	1982
Periodical:	The African Review: A Journal of African Politics, Development and International Affairs
Volume:	9
Issue:	1
Pages:	59-67
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Ethiopia Zimbabwe Australia
Subject:	foreign policy
Abstract:	At the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' summit, held in London, 1977, the Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser, strongly attacked the racial policies of the white minority regimes of Southern Africa. Credited with provision of the major muscle behind the policy adopted by Mr. Fraser is the Australian Foreign Minister, Andrew Peacock. This paper examines the policies of Fraser and Peacock as pronounced on several occasions, e.g. in the UN Council for Namibia, at the World Conference for Action Against Apartheid in Lagos, 1977, and at the Commonwealth Heads of State and Government Meeting, held in Lusaka, 1979. Notes, tab.