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"The economic impact of the Australia–US free trade agreement." Australian Journal of International Affairs 69.5 (2015): 513–537. online; Bisley, Nick. "‘An ally for all the years to come’: why Australia is not a conflicted US ally." Australian Journal of International Affairs 67.4 (2013): 403-418. Camilleri, Joseph A. The Australia-New ...
The Australia–United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) is a preferential trade agreement between Australia and the United States modelled on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The AUSFTA was signed on 18 May 2004 and came into effect on 1 January 2005.
Key concerns include free trade, terrorism, refugees, economic co-operation with Asia and stability in the Indo-Pacific. Australia is active in the United Nations and the Commonwealth of Nations. Given its history of starting and supporting important regional and global initiatives, it has been described as a regional middle power par ...
The name Australia (pronounced / ə ˈ s t r eɪ l i ə / in Australian English) [29] is derived from the Latin Terra Australis Incognita (' unknown southern land '), a name used for a hypothetical continent in the Southern Hemisphere since ancient times. [30] Several 16th-century cartographers used the word Australia on maps, but not to ...
This was especially the case in joint military exercises: Japan joined for the first time the Australian Kakadu and Nichi Trou Trident naval exercises in respectively 2008 and 2009, Japan and India held for the first time a joint naval exercise in 2012 and Australia and India did the same in 2015, Australia joined the US-Philippines Balikatan ...
The Centenary Companion to Australian Federation. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-57314-9. Jupp, James (2001). The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-80789-1. Levi, Werner (1999). American-Australian Relations. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-0044-9.
On 9 December 1966, [13] the United States and Australia signed a treaty titled "Agreement between the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia and the Government of the United States of America relating to the Establishment of a Joint Defence Space Research Facility", [13] which was signed by Australia's Paul Hasluck and America's Edwin M. Cronk, detailing that a facility would be ...
At the time of Federation, in 1901, there were 7,448 United States-born persons in Australia. [3] About this time, many of these American-Australians worked in the labour movement, including the formation of trade unions and the Australian Labor Party (hence the spelling of Labor in the American way instead of the more common Labour; both ...