Aeronautical Research Laboratories 37
Afghanistan 104, 125
Age (see under Media)
Air Force, Australian (see Royal Australian Air Force)
Alice Springs (see Joint Defence Space Research Facility)
Allende, Salvador 94
America (see United States)
ANZUS Treaty (1951) 6, 9–13, 16, 30, 35, 40, 72–73, 90, 103–104, 108, 133
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 90 (see also Southeast Asia)
Attorney-General’s Department 100, 123
Audit Act 1901 (see under Legislation)
Australian Army 7, 17–18, 21–22, 24–27, 29, 31–33, 35, 38–39, 42, 44, 50, 54, 56, 58–61, 63–64, 70, 78, 80, 82, 85, 89, 101, 122–23, 127
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) (see under Media)
Australian Defence Force Academy (see under University of New South Wales)
Australian Labor Party 49, 55, 76, 83, 89
Australian National University, The (ANU) 120–21;
  Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) at 39
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) 92, 95, 108, 129

BAC-111 aircraft (see under Britain)
Baker, John 117, 140(n8)
Barnard, Lance 43, 45–46, 49–53, 57, 62, 68–72, 74–86, 88–89, 91–92, 96–98(n7), 128, 137
Barwick, Garfield 11, 13–15, 76, 96, 131–32, 134, 137
Basten, Henry 121
Battle, William C. 30, 47(n20), 83
Beazley, Kim 22, 47(n15), 52, 71–72, 75–77, 82, 97(n4), 125–26, 129, 140(n11)
Beijing (see under People’s Republic of China)
Belgium:
  Brussels 112
Berbera (Somalia) 105
Bhutan, Kingdom of 16
Blakers, Gordon 10, 23, 37, 39–40
Bland, Henry 17–24, 26–28, 31, 33, 37, 110, 125, 138
‘blue-water’ navy, concept of 21, 39, 41–42, 90, 104
Boeing:
  Boeing 707 aircraft 52;
  Chinook helicopter 123
Booker, Malcolm 11
Border, L.H. 17
Borneo (see under Malaysia)
Boston (see under United States)
Bretton Woods International Monetary
  Conference 1
Brezhnev, Leonid 72
Britain 3, 7–8, 47(n2), 54, 75, 78, 85, 87, 103, 130–31, 134, 139;
  BAC-111 aircraft 52, 85;
  Centurion tank 81;
  Ditchley seminar 45;
  Imperial Defence College 119;
  London 4, 5, 7, 19, 36, 51, 47(n13), 93, 96, 114, 129, 134;
  RMS Queen Mary 4;
  Royal College of Defence Studies 45;
  Royal Military Academy Sandhurst 16;
  Savoy Hotel 134
Brogan, Mervyn 61
Brown, Allen 10
Brussels (see under Belgium)
Buchan, Alastair 45
Bulletin (see under Media)
Bunting, John 46, 52, 134
Burton, John W. 1–3, 133

C-130 Hercules (see under Lockheed Corporation)
Cabinet of Australia 8–9, 11, 13–14, 19, 25, 27–28, 31, 34, 36, 43, 50, 52, 56, 62, 69, 80, 91, 96, 107, 111, 113, 116, 124–25, 131–32, 134, 137
Cairns, Jim 83, 89, 91
Cairns 89
Cairo (see under Egypt)
Canada 114–15
Canberra Times (see under Media)
Carlyle Hotel 114
Carmody, Alan 112
Carrington, Peter 13, 77–78
Carter, Jimmy 105–106
Casey, Richard Gardiner 5–6, 8, 11, 21, 66, 93, 120, 122, 124, 131–35, 137
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (see under United States)
Centurion tank (see under Britain)
Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee (CCOSC) 26, 32, 35, 39, 52, 57, 64, 66–67, 139
Chief of Air Staff (see under Royal Australian Air Force)
Chief of Defence Force (CDF) 58, 102, 117
Chief of Defence Force Staff (CDFS) 58–60, 65, 68, 82, 100–102, 122, 139
Chief of Naval Staff (see under Royal Australian Navy)
Chief of the General Staff (CGS) 33, 61–63, 140(n9)
Chief Defence Scientist (CDS) 37, 50, 68, 71, 118, 127
Chiefs of Staff 14, 17, 25–26, 56–57, 96, 115, 130, 134;
  Chiefs of Staff Committee 26, 32, 35, 39, 52, 57, 64, 66–67, 139
Chifley, J.B. 1, 50
Chile 94
China (see People’s Republic of China)
Chinook helicopter (see under Boeing)
Citizen Military Force 85
Clark, Alan 55
Coast Guard (see under United States)
Coates, John 123, 140(n9)
Collins, John 7
Colombo Plan 2–3, 133
Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) 104, 122
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) 37
Constitutionality 3, 25, 53–54, 56, 89, 93, 97, 109;
  Federal Constitution (Australia) 13, 53, 76, 135
Consumer Price Index 106
Cooley, Alan 113
Coombs, H.C. (‘Nugget’) 1, 45, 87–88, 138
Crown Prince of Tonga 130
Curtin, John 2, 9, 50
Curtis, W.J. 27
Cyclone Tracy (see under Darwin)

Daily Telegraph (see under Media)
Daly, Thomas 33
Darwin 132;
  Cyclone Tracy 90–91, 116
Defence Act 1915 (see under Legislation)
Defence Budget 21, 22–24, 27, 34, 36, 38, 42, 64–65, 67, 80, 88–89, 97, 107–108
Defence Council (Australia) 99, 107
Defence Force Ombudsman 85
Defence Reorganisation Act 1976 (see under Legislation)
Defence Reorganisation Bill (see under Legislation)
Defence Review (1972): 40–41, 44–45, 80, 90
Defence Science 28, 52, 68, 117–18, 128, 135
Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) 118
Delta Air Lines 115
Denmark 85
Department of Labour (Australia) 22
Department of External Affairs (Australia)
(later Department of Foreign Affairs) 1–3, 5, 7–8, 10–14, 17–20, 26, 30, 34–37, 41, 47(n10), 70, 76, 86, 92–93, 96, 108, 110, 130–35, 137–38
  (see also Department of Foreign Affairs))
Department of Foreign Affairs (Australia) (formerly Department of External Affairs and now Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) 20–21, 36–37, 40, 43, 46, 74, 81–82, 86, 95, 106, 109–110, 113, 138
  (see also Department of External Affairs)
Desai, Morarji 122–23
Dibb, Paul 37, 52, 82, 125, 140(n8)
Ditchley seminar (see under Britain)
Dovers, Bill 51
Drake-Brockman, Tom 25
Dulles, John Foster 131
Dunnett, ‘Ned’ 115
Duntroon (see Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon)
Dutch New Guinea 6, 10 (see also Papua New Guinea)
Dwyer, Eric 50–51
Dyer, Brigadier 123

Eastman, Alan 11
Eden, Anthony 132
Egypt:
  Cairo 6
Enfield, John 28
European Economic Commission 112
Evatt, Dr D.V. 1–2, 4, 70, 131, 133, 137

F-111 strategic bomber (see under General Dynamics)
Fabian Society (of Victoria) 91
Facilities (defence/military in Australia): 41–42, 49–51, 70, 76, 80, 82, 89, 104, 124;
  Facilities Division 100
  (see also Joint Defence Space Communications Facility)
  (see also Joint Defence Space Research Facility)
Fairbairn, David 35–36, 42–43, 45–46, 52, 90, 133
Fairfax (see under Media)
Fairhall, Allen 21–22, 24, 27, 37, 61, 65–66, 110
Farrands, John Laws 37, 50–51, 68, 71, 118, 127–29
Federal Constitution (Australia) (see under Constitutionality)
Federal Republic of Germany, (as former ‘West Germany’) 43, 85, 112
  (see also Second World War)
Fiji 99, 129–30
Fink, Tom 118
First World War 102
Fishing 34, 37, 114–15
Five Year Defence Rolling Program 23
‘fortress Australia’, concept of 35, 48(n23, 24)
‘forward defence’, concept of 35, 38, 45, 48(n23, 24), 103
France 87, 105–106, 112;
  Paris 6
Fraser, Malcolm 1, 15, 19–25, 27, 29–34, 47(n2, 19), 50, 58, 64, 66, 77, 82, 85, 90, 94, 97, 99, 102–105, 107, 109, 111–17, 120, 122, 124–25, 129, 131, 133, 137, 139, 140(n1, 5);
  Nareen, property at, of, 111
Fremantle 44
Freeth, Gordon 19
Furlonger, Robert 11, 32, 80

Garden Island 44–45
Gardner, Ava 114
General Dynamics:
  F-111 strategic bomber 20, 29–30
Germany (see Federal Republic of Germany)
Gorton, John 1, 15, 19–20, 29, 31–36, 41, 43, 47(n2), 48(n23), 50, 85, 105, 113, 133–35, 137
Gromyko, Andrei 133
Green, Fred J. 30, 54, 57
Green, Marshall 83
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) 97

Haig, Alexander 112
Hamer, David 65
Hamilton, R.N. 36, 40
Hancock, Valston 13
Hannah, Colin 13, 30
Hansard 53
Harvard University 114
Hasluck, Paul 2, 8, 13–15, 19, 31, 34, 36, 40, 116, 133, 135
Hassett, Francis 60, 100, 116
Hawke, Bob 71–73, 77, 82, 136, 140(n1)
Hay, David 11, 31
Hayden, Bill 77
Hicks, Edwin 9, 17, 20, 125
Hilton Hotel (see under Sydney)
HMAS Brisbane (see under Royal Australian Navy)
HMAS Canberra (see under Royal Australian Navy)
HMAS Parramatta (see under Royal Australian Navy)
Holsworthy 123
Hope, Robert 92–93, 108;
  Hope Report 93, 95, 111;
  Royal Commission on Intelligence 92, 99, 108
Horne, Donald 40, 48(n24)
Hotel Canberra 137
House of Representatives (Australia) 43, 49, 65, 113

Imperial Defence College (see under Britain)
Imperial Service Club (Sydney) 35, 48(n23)
India 15–17,19–20, 29, 123, 133;
  Lok Sabha 15;
  New Delhi 14–15, 17, 20, 34, 78, 119, 122;
  Punjab 78, 123
Indian Ocean 21, 103–105, 125
Indonesia 6, 10, 12–14, 27, 37, 39, 40, 42, 47(n10), 85;
  Partai Komunis Indonesia (PKI) in 10

Japan 38, 56, 83, 104, 131;
  Tokyo 19–20, 47(n13)
Jenkins, Roy 112
Jockel, Gordon 37, 52, 80–81
Joint Defence Space Communications Facility 49, 69–75
Joint Defence Space Research Facility 49, 69–75, 94–95, 129
Joint Intelligence Bureau 10
Joint Intelligence Committee 7, 10
Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO) 32, 37, 80–81, 94, 110–12, 117
Joint Military Staff 51
Joint Planning Committee 8
Journalism (see under Media)

Kai-shek, Chiang 3, 5
Kashmir 15
Keating, Paul 43
Kelly, Paul 97
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald 30, 83
Kerr, John Robert 31, 127–29
Killen, James 25, 77, 82, 87, 90, 98(n7), 99, 103, 106–108, 111, 121, 124, 140(n6)
Kirk, Norman 52
Kissinger, Henry 83
‘Koonaroo’ 115–17
Korean War 131
Kumaramangalam, General 16

Laird, Melvin 30
Landau, Sam 54, 57, 86
Legislation 28, 50, 54, 59–60, 67, 85, 89, 97, 99;
  Audit Act 1901 57–58;
  Defence Act 1915 58, 99;
  Defence Reorganisation Act 1976 60;
  Defence Reorganisation Bill 97;
  Public Service Act 1922 58
Lloyd, Clem 68, 77–79, 98(n6)
Lockheed Corporation:
  C-130 Hercules 39
Lok Sabha (see under India)
London (see under Britain)
Lyneham, Paul 129

MacArthur, Douglas 4
MacDonald, Arthur L. 61, 63, 68, 121–22
Macmillan, Harold 54–55
Malaya 5, 11–12, 21, 105, 139 (see also Malaysia)
Malaysia 10, 12–14, 27, 39–40, 42, 45, 78, 81;
  Borneo, incorporation of, into 12;
  Sabah, incorporation of, into 12
  (see also Malaya)
Mara, Ratu Sir Kamisese 129
Martin, Leslie 31
McBride, Philip 5, 132
McEwen, John 47(n9), 133
McMahon, William 15, 20–21, 34–36, 43, 45–46, 49–50, 99, 133
McNamara, Robert 23, 28
McNeill, Ian 26
McNicoll, Alan 10
Media 29, 46, 79, 97, 105, 123;
  Age 65;
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) 129;
  Bulletin 40, 62, 113;
  Canberra Times 79;
  Daily Telegraph 32;
  Fairfax 128–29;
  Journalism 129;
  National Times 128–29
Menon, Krishna 15
Menzies, Robert 4, 8–9, 11–12, 14–15, 19, 21, 25–27, 40, 50, 52–53, 56, 78, 80, 131–35, 137
Middle East 2, 4, 9, 93, 132, 139
Millar, T.B. (Tom) 64, 81
Ministerial Defence Conference 79
Missiles 69, 71, 73, 77, 108, 117;
  SS-20 Sabre missile 105;
  Tartar missile 44
Mornington Peninsula 39
Morrison, William 82, 90, 92, 95–97, 98(n7), 128
Morshead, Leslie 23;
  Morshead Committee 25, 52
Moscow (see under Soviet Union)
Moten, John 28
Myers, Rupert 121

Nareen (see under Fraser, Malcolm)
Nasser, Gamal Abdel 132
National Capital Planning Authority 121
National Intelligence Committee (NIC) 32, 94, 110
National Times (see under Media)
Natural Disasters Organisation (NDO) 85, 90
Navy, Australian (see Royal Australian Navy)
Nehru, Jawaharlal 15
New Delhi (see under India)
New York (see under United States)
New Zealand 10, 52, 115
Newspapers (see Media)
Nixon, Richard 21, 83, 114
Non-Aligned Movement 15
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 11, 105
North Korea 3–4, 138
North West Cape Naval Communications Station (see under United States)
Nuclear 71–72, 76;
  balance 73, 80, 95, 103;147
  energy 84, 112;
  forces 10, 69, 71–72, 77;
  powered vessels 84;
  test ban 71;
  Test Ban Treaty 75;
  weapons 73, 84
Nurrungar (see Joint Defence Space Communications Facility)

Office of National Assessments (ONA) 112
O’Neill, Robert 3

Pacific Islands Regiment 31
Pacific Ocean 21, 44, 104
Packard, David 74
Pakistan 15–16, 119
Papua New Guinea 42 (see also Dutch New Guinea)
Paris (see under France)
Parkinson, Nicholas 115
Parliamentary Public Works Committee 122
Partai Komunis Indonesia (PKI) (see under Indonesia)
Peacock, Andrew 25, 103, 105
Peck, Gregory 114
Pentagon (see under United States)
People’s Republic of China 3–5, 11, 14, 16, 104, 131, 138;
  Beijing 3
Petrov, Evdokia 132
Pilger, John 128–29
Pine Gap (see Joint Defence Space Research Facility)
Pinochet, Augusto 94
Pinwill, William 128–29
Plimsoll, James 4, 15, 19–20
Poyser, Gordon 10
Press (see Media)
Princess Anne, Princess Royal, The 130
Pritchett, W.B. 37, 103, 106
Privileges Committee 130
Public Service (Australia) 1–2, 10, 24, 26–28, 60, 69, 74, 86–87, 89, 100–101, 113, 126, 129–30, 133–36, 138
Public Service Act 1922 (see under Legislation)
Public Service Board (Australia)

Rand Corporation 23
Reid, Alan 79
Remembrance Day service 97
Rhee, Syngman 20
Rice, Walter 75
Rickover, Hyman G. 84
RMS Queen Mary (see under Britain)
Rowell, Sydney 7
Roy Milne Memorial Lecture 23, 125
Royal Australian Air Force 16, 24–25, 29–30, 36–37, 39, 41–42, 55, 59–60, 63, 65, 67, 82, 85, 90, 102, 105, 108, 120;
  Chief of Air Staff 30, 62, 101
  (see also Boeing)
Royal Australian Navy 7, 18, 24–25, 30, 39, 41–42, 44–45, 54–56, 59–60, 63, 82, 89–90, 97, 99, 101–102, 108, 135, 140(n1);
  Chief of Naval Staff 10, 56, 62, 116;
  HMAS Brisbane 44;
  HMAS Canberra 124;
  HMAS Parramatta 44
Royal College of Defence Studies (see under Britain)
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (see under Britain)
Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon 85, 119–20
Rusk, Dean 12–13, 40
Russia 105 (see also Soviet Union)

Saab:
  Viggen (Thunderbolt) aircraft 85
Sabah (see under Malaysia)
Saigon (see under Vietnam)
Salisbury 117
Sandhurst (see under Britain)
Sandys, Duncan 54
Savoy Hotel (see under Britain)
Scherger, Frederick 39
Schlesinger, James 83–84
Schmidt, Helmut 43
Seattle (see under United States)
Second World War 5, 19, 25, 44, 61, 91, 109, 132, 134, 139
Senate (Australian) 49, 64, 97, 106
Service Boards 28, 51, 54, 56, 58–59, 61–64, 86, 139
Service Chiefs 7–9, 25, 27, 35, 37–38, 43, 54, 57–59, 64, 80, 100, 138
Shackley, Ted 95, 128
Shann, Keith 113
Shedden, Frederick 2–3, 7–9, 17, 125
Ships 22, 24, 39, 60, 80, 86, 108, 124, 127 (see also Nuclear)
Shute, Nevil 114
Singapore 5, 11, 21, 27, 35, 45, 70, 74, 78, 81
Singleton 44
Smith, Victor 32, 52,57, 67
Snedden, Billy 70
South Head (Sydney) 44
South Korea 3
Southeast Asia 3–6, 13–14, 21, 37, 41–43, 77, 104
  (see also Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN))
Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) 10, 13
Soviet Union 3, 10–11, 15–16, 43, 50, 69, 72, 74, 76–77, 88, 94, 96, 103–106, 112–13;
  Moscow 2, 15, 96, 132
  (see also Russia)
Spender, Percy C. 2–6, 21, 131–33
SS-20 Sabre missile (see under Missiles)
Stephen, Ninian 116
Stevenson, David 116
Stone, John 88
Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) (see under Australian National University, The)
Strategic Basis of Australian Defence Policy paper 11, 82
Strategic Guidance paper 82
Stretton, Alan 90–91, 98(n9)
Suez Canal crisis 132
Sukarno, President 10, 12, 14, 16, 39
Supply Department 50, 68, 118, 135
Sweden 85
  (see also Barnard, Lance)
Sydney 2, 44, 95–96, 114, 123;
  Hilton Hotel in 122
Synnot, Anthony 68, 91

Tange Report 53, 59
Tartar missile (see under Missiles)
Television (see Media)
Test Ban Treaty (see under Nuclear)
Tokyo (see under Japan)
Toohey, Brian 68, 76, 128–29
Townley, Athol 12
Treasury (Australia) 1, 23, 27–28, 31, 43, 51, 88, 97, 100
Truman, Harry S. 4

United Kingdom (see Britain)
United Nations 1–3, 15, 31, 134, 138;
United Nations Security Council 3, 133
  United Nations Security Council (see under United Nations)
United States 3–6, 9–13, 15, 17, 20–21, 29–30, 37, 39–41, 45, 49–51, 62, 68–79, 82–88, 90–91, 94–97, 103, 105–106, 113–14, 117, 128–29, 131–32, 134, 138–39;
  Air Force 29–30;
  Boston 114;
  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) 94–95, 128;
  Coast Guard 96;
  Congress 6, 17, 72, 75, 86;
    Armed Services Committee of 45;
  Department of State 6;
  North West Cape Naval Communications Station 13, 76–77, 83–85;
  Navy 13, 76, 84;
  New York 1–2, 4, 114;
  Pentagon 23, 30, 83, 86, 96, 105–106;
  Seattle 124;
  Washington 2, 4, 6–7, 12, 14, 19, 30, 34, 40, 47(n13), 71, 83, 93, 95, 114–15, 128;
  White House 45, 114
University of Adelaide 121
University of New South Wales 118, 121–22;
  Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA),
  creation of, within 31, 45, 99, 119, 121–22, 124, 127
University of Western Australia 103

Victoria Barracks 44
Vietnam 6, 14–15, 17, 24, 27, 29, 32, 35–36, 41–42, 54, 104, 116–17, 139;
  Saigon 17, 32
Viggen (Thunderbolt) aircraft (see under Saab)
Vyshinsky, Andrei 6

Waller, Keith 19–20
Washington (see under United States)
Watt, Alan S. 2–3, 6
Wellington Staff College 16
White, Bruce 50, 54, 55–57
White, Frederick 37
White, Thomas 19
White House (see under United States)
Whitlam, Gough 15, 43, 49–50, 52, 55, 69–72, 74, 78–79, 83, 86–87, 89, 91–96, 106, 109, 113–14, 128–29, 133, 135, 137
Williamstown Dockyard 99
Wilson, Roland 1
Wilton, John 26
Woodward, Albert Edward 51
Woomera 99, 117, 124 (see also Joint Defence Space Communications Facility)
Wran, Neville 122
Wrigley, Allan 129

Yaouk Valley (see ‘Koonaroo’)
Yeend, Geoffrey 122–23

Zetland 45
Zumwalt, Elmo R. 84