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Fear of Security Australia’sInvasionAnxiety AnthonyBurke Security has rarely been such a dominant and controversial pre- occupation of Australian politics. In this authoritative book, AnthonyBurkearguesthatsecurityhasdominatedanddistorted Australia’s foreign policy and national life, from Cook’s first voy- agetotheTampacrisis,9/11andIraq.WhetherintheGreatWar, Vietnamorthetreatmentofasylumseekers,AnthonyBurkeshows that Australia’s security has been bought with the insecurity and suffering of others. Against this corrosive tradition, he offers a new – cosmopolitan and non-coercive – model of national exis- tenceandresponsibility. Atonceadeephistoricalsurveyandanargumentwithitssociety, Fear of Security is a landmark account of how Australia relates to itself, its region and the world. Turning powerful academic and politicalorthodoxiesontheirheads,itisessentialreadingforthose concernedwiththeburningquestionsthatfaceAustraliaandthe Asia-Pacific. Anthony Burke is the author of Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence, and co-editor of Critical Security in the Asia-Pacific andIntroductiontoInternationalRelations:AustralianPerspectives (Cambridge University Press 2007). He has previously worked as a researcher in the Australian Senate, and is currently Associate ProfessorofinternationalpoliticsattheUniversityofNewSouth Wales. Fear of Security Australia’sInvasionAnxiety Anthony Burke cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo CambridgeUniversityPress 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521714273 (cid:1)C AnthonyBurke2008 Thispublicationiscopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithout thewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. FirstpublishedbyPlutoPressAustraliaLimited2001 FirstpublishedbyCambridgeUniversityPress2008 CoverdesignbyMasonDesign PrintedinAustraliabyLigare AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary NationalLibraryofAustraliaCataloguinginPublicationdata Burke,Anthony. Fearofsecurity:Australia’sinvasionanxiety. Bibliography. Includesindex. ISBN9780521714273(pbk.). 1.Security,International. 2.Nationalsecurity–Australia. 3.Internalsecurity– Australia. 4.Australia–Foreignrelations. I.Title. 327.94 ISBN-13 978-0-521-71427-3 CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityfor thepersistenceoraccuracyofURLsforexternalor third-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. ForJenny,SophiaandNikos andinmemoryofKamalandMichele Contents Prefaceandacknowledgements viii Abbreviations x Introduction 1 1 SecuringtheAustraliansubject1788–1918 15 2 DreamsofPacificsecurity1919–45 51 3 ColdWaragainsttheOther1946–69 83 4 RealpolitikbeyondtheColdWar1970–95 126 5 Australia’sAsiancrisis1996–2000 169 6 Thewagesofterror2001–07 207 Conclusion:Acosmopolitanfuture 234 Notes 245 Index 285 vii Preface and acknowledgements Thisbookisasubstantiallyrevisedandupdatedversionofaproject firstpublishedasInFearofSecurity:Australia’sInvasionAnxietyin 2001, immediately following the events of 9/11 and prior to that year’s national election. I am very grateful to the publishers at CambridgeUniversityPress,especiallySusanHanleyandPauline deLaveaux,forgivingthebookanewlife,asIamtotheanonymous readerswhorecommendeditspublication.Mygratitudealsogoes toKenWarkandTonyMoorewhofirstputtheirfaithintheproject backin1999. ThechangesIhavemadeareintendedtobringthebookupto date,toimproveuponitsargumentsandrespondtothepolitical climate that followed its publication, and to make it more acces- sibletoawidereadership.Anewchapterhasbeenaddedtocover the period after 9/11, with a particular focus on Australia’s treat- mentofasylumseekersanditsinvolvementinIraqandthewaron terror.Anewconclusionhasalsobeenwrittenandtheintroduc- tionrevisedsubstantially.Twotheoreticalchaptersintheoriginal book – on security in international relations theory, and on the development of the national security state in Western political thought – have been omitted. A more developed version of that latterchaptercanbefoundinmytheoreticalworkfocusedonthe waronterror,BeyondSecurity,EthicsandViolence.Readerswitha particularinterestinthetheoreticalideasofthisbookareencour- agedtoconsultthatwork. For their assistance while I was preparing the book my thanks to Matt McDonald, Savitri Taylor, Patricia Hall-Ingrey, Katrina Harrison, Di Taylor and the Cambridge readers who gave great advice.Ithankallthosewhohaveaskedmetospeakpubliclysince viii Prefaceandacknowledgements ix 2001ontheissuesdealtwithhere–youractivism,publicspirited- nessandconcernforjusticehasbeeninspiring.Andforallthegreat talks, collaboration and exchange: Peter Mares, Klaus Neumann, BobBurke,SuvendiPerera,JimGeorge,KatrinaLeeKoo,Christine Sylvester, Chris Reus-Smit, Roland Bleiker, Hazel Lang, Richard Devetak,LorraineElliott,GraemeCheeseman,PaulKeal,Minerva Nasser-Eddine,PalAhluwalia,CarolJohnson,ChrisBeasley,Greg McCarthy, Kath Gelber, Liz Thurbon, Sarah Maddison, Umut Ozguc,MarcWilliams,RuthBalint,JieChen,MarianneHanson, AlexBellamy,RichardShapcott,MarkBeeson,NickWheelerand EdAspinall. My wife Jenny has been a truly wonderful source of encour- agementandsupport;withoutherthisbookwouldnotexist.Itis dedicatedtoherandourchildrenwithmylove. ThisbookisalsodedicatedtothememoryofKamalBamadhaj and Michele Turner. Kamal was a tireless and inspired advocate of freedom and dignity for those struggling against the Soeharto regime. He was murdered, with hundreds of others, in the first volleysofgunfireattheSantaCruzmassacreinDili,TimorLeste, in 1991. Michele spent ten years compiling personal testimonies fromEastTimoreseforhermoving1992book,Telling.Thedespair thatovertookherin1995wasnodoubtdeepenedbyhershameat Australia’sabandonmentofapeoplewhohadkepthergrandfather aliveduringthePacificwar.Theywereboth‘mightyspirits’whom weallmiss.
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