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| sovereignty | complete independence and self government |
| human rights | right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law. |
| foreign aid | economic or military assistance, offered by one nation to another |
| parliamentary democracy | an elected government having national representative body with supreme legislative powers within the state |
| multicultural society | a group of people from different national backgrounds living together |
| primary industries | enterprises that extract natural resources from the earth or their products |
| diplomacy | practice of conducting international relations, as in negotiating alliances, treaties, and agreements |
| economic pressure | manipulation of trade arrangements to try to influence another government's actions and policies |
| secret intervention | covert operations within another country to try to influence political events there |
| power bloc | group of nations that acts in concert, using military or economic means to affect other nation(s) actions and policies |
| alliance | A close association of nations or other groups, formed to advance common interests or causes: |
| diplomatic mission | A body of persons sent to conduct negotiations or establish relations with a foreign country; also their offices |
| embassy | A building containing the offices of an ambassador and staff |
| consulate | The office of an official appointed by a government to reside in a foreign country and represent his or her government's commercial interests and assist its citizens there |
| high commission | an embassy between two members of the Commonwealth of Nations, e.g. Australian High Commission to Ottawa |
| League of Nations | A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace; it was dissolved in 1946. |
| United Nations | An international organization composed of most of the countries of the world, founded in 1945 to promote peace, security, and economic development. |
| Commonwealth of Nations | An association comprising the United Kingdom, its dependencies, and many former British colonies that are now sovereign states with a common allegiance to the British Crown, including Canada, Australia, India, and many countries in the West Indies and Africa, formally established by the Statute of Westminster in 1931. |
| Sir Edmund Barton | First Prime Minister of Australia and one of the authors of the Constitution |
| H. V. "Doc" Evatt | One of Australia's most influential Ministers of External Affairs during and after World War II |
