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news China-Australia relations: what Canberra can learn from Gough Whitlam and its own diplomatic history Tony Walker © SCMP Gough Whitlam, then-leader of Australia’s opposition Labor party, departs Hong Kong for mainland China at the head of a delegation in 1971. Photo: SCMP Historical anniversaries sometimes - not always - provide an opportunity to take stock. Rarely do two anniversaries coincide that encourage such an opportunity. That was the case with the 50th anniversary on July 3 of former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam s breakthrough visit to China and the July 1 centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. Australia needs to take stock of a troubled relationship with its dominant trading partner and guarantor of its economic well-being.

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