TY - BOOK AU - FLETCHER Christine (ed) TI - Bad times, good friends: Australia and East Asia in 1998 SN - 0731533038 (hbk.): PY - 1999/// CY - Casuarina, NT, Australia PB - ANU North Australia Research Unit KW - AUSTRALIA KW - FOREIGN RELATIONS KW - INDONESIA KW - INTER STATE RELATIONS KW - INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS KW - MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING N2 - Study of the quality and strength of Australia's relationship with its northern neighbours. Part 1 deals with good neighbour policies. Part 2 attempts to identify the effects of the economic crisis and the downfall of Soeharto and looks in particular at Indonesia's perspective of Australia, at whether Malaysia and Thailand are stable, and at what the Philippines can do to cope with the situation. Part 3 considers the framework of treaties and MOUs which link Australia and its neighbours ER -