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Indonesia matters to us, and always has. Why the relationship will survive Morrison's Jerusalem thought bubble

  • Written by Tim Harcourt, J.W. Nevile Fellow in Economics, UNSW
Indonesia matters to us, and always has. Why the relationship will survive Morrison's Jerusalem thought bubbleIndonesia is an underappreciated market for Australian services.Shutterstock

All hell broke loose during the Wentworth by-election when Prime Minister Scott Morrison suddenly announced that he was thinking of moving of Australia’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

The main objections came, not on merits of the idea itself, but on...

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