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Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Mark Carney highlights areas of Australian-Canadian cooperation as middle powers

Mark Carney has nominated key areas of cooperation between Canada and Australia as part of middle powers building a new international order.

Addressing the federal parliament, with both houses sitting together, Carney once again pressed his now familiar argument for middle power activism as the old world order disintegrated amid rising great power rivalry.

“The question for middle powers like us is whether we establish the conventions and write the new rules that will determine our security and prosperity or let the hegemons increasingly dictate outcomes?”

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