XV 107 pages, indexed. A clean, unmarked and solid copy. 'Bruce Alexander Grant (4 April 1925 - 3 August 2022) was an Australian journalist, foreign correspondent, government advisor, diplomat, novelist and author of several books on Australian politics and foreign policy. Grant's first book Indonesia of 1964 came at a time of high tension between Britain and Indonesia over the year-old Federation of Malaysia, which Indonesian leaders opposed and which resulted in the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation. He was subsequently witness to, and an influence on, centres of power in Australia for several decades, as journalist and foreign correspondent, diplomat, public intellectual, and advisor to Menzies, whose letter of reference to ambassadors facilitated his reporting as Asian correspondent, and to subsequent governments from Whitlam to Hawke and Keating. Grant was chairman of the Australia-Indonesia Institute and his book Indonesia (1964 remains a classic and insightful study of Australia's relations with its most powerful near neighbour. From 1972 Grant advised the new prime minister Gough Whitlam, who "startled officials at a meeting by introducing me as his Dr Kissinger," and appointed Grant as Australian High Commissioner to India (1973-1976) in which post he was an early advocate of the importance of Asia to Australia, having asked as he diverged from his career as journalist; Can the newspapers stop Australia from turning inward, from becoming isolationist? (Roy Milne Memorial Lecture, 7 August 1969) Grant campaigned to abolish the White Australia policy, opposed the Vietnam war as counterproductive to Australia's credibility in S.E. Asia, and joined the Australian Committee for a New China Policy, urging recognition of the People's Republic of China. Through his The Boat People, he analysed, and promoted understanding of, the political causes and social ramifications of increasing numbers of Vietnamese refugees arriving by boat on Australia's shores.Consultant to the federal Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Gareth Evans, 1988-91, they co-wrote Australia's Foreign Relations in the World of the 1990s (1991). In 2008, Grant initiated the colloquium 'Australia as a Middle-Ranking Power' hosted in Canberra at Manning Clark House in Conjunction with the Australian Institute of International Affairs." (Wikipedia)