Australia’s relationship with Indonesia has a significant impact on our culture, economy and national security. But despite our proximity, it’s often been a relationship defined by tension as well as indifference. Today, Karen Middleton on Australia’s regional blind spot, and why it’s time we started engaging more closely with South-East Asia.

Guest: Chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper Karen Middleton.

Background reading: Australian Foreign Affairs - Friends, Allies and Enemies

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