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and important ideas but feels rhetoric than substance for supporting points In the ABCBoyer Lectures one of Australia's most influential foreign policy experts examines our country's place in the world For most of Australia's history the world was run by nations like our own But now the

international order that has prevailed since the end of the Second World War is fraying Global institutions are showing their age Our great and powerful friends are becoming less great and powerful Rising powers such as China are challenging the old order Wealth and power are shifting eastwards towards us The tyranny of distance is being replaced by the predicament of proximity Award winning historian and author Michael Fullilove argues that we must shape our international environment This reuires us to be smarter and shrewder but also larger Australia needs to be a big confident ambitious country open to the world with an effective political system the instruments to influence the balance of power and the confidence to have our own head of state Stirring timely and important A Larger Australia tells us it is time for Australians to think big The ABC Boyer Lectures is an annual series of lectures delivered by prominent Australians who are invited by the ABC Board to express their thoughts on major social cultural scientific or political issues The ABC Boyer Lectures are named after the late Sir Richard Boyer a former chairman of the ABC Good but slightly short I'd like to read an expanded version Michael Fullilove is the executive director of the Lowy Institute in Sydney and a non resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC A Rhodes scholar and a former prime ministerial adviser he writes widely on global issues for publications such as The New York Times Financial Times The Daily Beast and Foreign Affairs.