I arrived in Australia with my family at the time when Malcolm Fraser was the Prime Minister of Australia. He was preceded by Gough Whitlam and succeeded by Bob Hawke and Paul Keating. They were all intellectual, individualistic and humane leaders. I had never felt more secure and proud to be Australian.

However, the subsequent governments saw an erosion of independent thinking among our political leaders to the point of surrendering our national security and sovereignty to the United States.

As for the European leadership, I had an observer’s reason to admire Francois Mitterrand and Angela Merkel. Between them, they made Europe politically and economically strong and credible. Yet after these leaders, Europe too seems to be sliding towards an inexplicable dependence on the US for their foreign policies.

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