Bipartisan

Introduction

It is believed by many that Australia had a bipartisan foreign policy. This is not the actually case. It was the coalition leader Prime Minister Menzies who had fought with Evatt, who was the opposition leader in the year 1940's over the foreign policy. In the year between 1949-1972, which was led by the reign of Menzies, there were further disagreements that arose. It was Arthur Calwell, the opposition politician, took a very strong stand over the Australian policy over Vietnam. In the year 197 when Gough won the election the tension and the conflict over point of view over the foreign policy grew more and more strong and it grew till the Malcolm Frasers year in office. It was in the year 1983 when the labor returned to power, the relationship between Australia and Indonesia collapsed, bipartisanship prevailed, based on a broad agreement on Australia's external interests and how to pursue them.

Main Body

Getting down to the ground realities, one can easily ask as to why doe bipartisan exist and why is there a need for it to be solved or given a hype. The best way to understand this logic is by taking in to consideration two parties. Let's suppose there are two parties, and it is quite obvious that every party would want to get the work done efficiently and effectively so that the people would support them, and same is the case in the mind of other parties. In this quest, the parties start to develop ideas which they think they could bitterly adopt as compared to other parties and the conflict of ideas occurs. When there is conflict of ideas no party is ready to listen to each other in their egoistic nature and then they have to be brought to a point where both of them agree to one common solution. This solution that is generally agreed by both the parties is majority of the times that solution which is always very favorable for Australia and can never be challenged as it wins the majority. This also helps in developing the coordination and control among the different political departments of a country. Usually there is always a conflict over the foreign and defense policy and all the opposition parties and the ruling parties are very much aggressive in nature thinking that their alternative obis the most favorable for the country. Now the point is that who decided that who is right or wrong. In these situations, normally he general body help in reducing the conflict and help in developing a situation where all of the alternatives are re valued and they are given shape where there is a strict check and both of the parties can develop and get their ideas implemented as long as it is accepted and understood by the general body.

As many as 300 years ago, foreign policy was considered as occupying its own discrete domain. In what international relations theorists like to describe as the Westphalian system of states, foreign policy ...