{"id":467193,"date":"2026-02-08T21:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/467193\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T21:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:43:09","slug":"australias-foreign-policy-ambition-shrinks-to-keeping-heads-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/467193\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s foreign policy ambition shrinks to keeping heads down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Could Anthony Albanese have ever delivered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2026\/01\/davos-2026-special-address-by-mark-carney-prime-minister-of-canada\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">speech<\/a> similar to Mark Carney\u2019s Davos speech? Could any Australian prime minister, other than Paul Keating, who, uniquely, had a clear strategic vision of Australia\u2019s role in the world that did not centre on our alliance with the United States?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To reprise, Carney argued that the \u201crules-based international order\u201d, a phrase that has been the single greatest cliche of Australian diplomacy for decades, was always something of a self-serving fiction for the West, but it was serviceable while it lasted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Could Anthony Albanese have ever delivered a speech similar to Mark Carney\u2019s Davos speech? Could any Australian prime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,3403,28245,238885,238886,40189,44,238887,238888,238889,238890],"class_list":["post-467193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-defence","tag-foreign-policy","tag-global-diplomacy","tag-international-affairs","tag-international-relations","tag-news","tag-policy-influence","tag-rules-based-order","tag-strategic-restraint","tag-us-alliance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}