POWER & NATIONAL INTERESTS
AUSTRALIA IN THE INDO-PACIFIC
KEY CONCEPTS
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100

Name the four national interests set out in the study design

National security, economic prosperity, regional relationships, regional standing

100

In force since July 2026, this mutual defence treaty binds Australia and Papua New Guinea.

The Pukpuk Treaty

100

Supreme authority within a defined territory, free from external interference

Sovereignty

100

A group of crows is known by this ominous collective noun.

A Murder

100

The United Nations headquarters is located in this city

New York

200

Launched in 2013, this is China's signature economic instrument for building influence across Eurasia, Africa and the Pacific.

The Belt and Road Initiative

200

Signed in 1951, this treaty remains the foundation of Australia's alliance with the United States.

The ANZUS Treaty

200

This paired concept asks whether a state's institutions, leadership and arrangements have been maintained or altered over time.

Political stability and political change

200

This Australian marsupial produces distinctively cube-shaped droppings.

the wombat

200

In 1932 the Australian army was deployed to Western Australia and comprehensively lost to these birds.

Emus (the Great Emu War)

300

Beijing's position that there is only one Chinese state and that Taiwan is part of it.

The One China principle

300

Announced in 2021, this trilateral partnership will deliver Australia nuclear-powered submarines under its first pillar.

AUKUS

300

The concept describing how states have become so economically, environmentally and politically linked that events in one reverberate globally.

Global interconnectedness

300

An octopus has this many hearts.

Three

300

The shortest war in recorded history lasted under 45 minutes in 1896, between Britain and this island sultanate.

Zanzibar

400

In 2016 this body ruled against China's nine-dash line claims in a case brought by the Philippines

The Permanent Court of Arbitration NOT the International Court of Justice

400

Australia, India, Japan and the United States make up this informal strategic grouping

The Quad (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue)

400

Neither a great power nor a small one, relying on diplomacy, coalitions and institutions, Australia's usual self-description.

A middle power

400

This is the only country in the world with a non-rectangular national flag.

Nepal

400

NATO's political headquarters is in this European capital.

Brussels

500

Established in 2016, this Beijing-led development bank offers an alternative to Western-dominated institutions.

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

500

Australia's current Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Penny Wong

500

The broadly accepted right of a government or institution to exercise authority.

Legitimacy

500

Fear of long words is known by this 

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

500

This planet rotates on its side, essentially rolling around the Sun.

Uranus

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