Armstrong, Shiro2022-08-182022-08-181839-0242http://hdl.handle.net/1885/271434The Australia in the Asian Century White Paper said that for Australia, ‘The tyranny of distance is being replaced by the prospects of proximity’. It is true that Australia is in the right place at the right time. Australia’s neighbourhood is the most dynamic growth centre in the global economy.application/pdfen-AU© 2013 The East Asia Forumhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/Australia's closeness to Asia2013-02-032021-08-01Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)