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Why increasing support for Ukraine is critical to Australia's security as a 'middle power'

  • Written by William Partlett, Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne

Support for Ukraine is normally described in ideological or moral terms as a duty to support democracies in the face of resurgent totalitarianism.

This is an important consideration. But since Russia’s declared annexation of Ukraine’s sovereign land last week, there’s now a hard-headed security rationale for supporting Ukraine in...

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