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Oct 2012

In India's broader strategic frameworks, Australia remains on the periphery, according to this commentary published at the occasion of Julia Gillard's visit to India in October 2012. Hence, the author argues, it is no surprise that no Indian prime minister has visited Australia since Rajiv Gandhi in 1986. Part of Gillard's challenge is to persuade her Indian counterpart to visit Australia to work towards more political symmetry in Australia–India relations.

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Author Purnendra Jain
Series SAGE International Ideas and Concepts
Publisher SAGE International
Copyright Republished with the kind permission of 'The Conversation' (theconversation.edu.au) and Purnendra Jain, Professor, Asian Studies at University of Adelaide.
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