Jamie Mackie
Biography
Publications
Jamie Mackie (1924-2011) was the founding head of the Department of Indonesian Studies at the University of Melbourne (1958-67) and the founding research director in the Centre of South-east Asian Studies at Monash University (1968-78). Mackie was the author of Problems of the Indonesian Inflation and Konfrontasi: The Indonesia-Malaysia Dispute 1963-1966. He produced scores of academic papers and wrote regularly for newspapers, both in Australia and Asia. In 2005, he wrote a book commemorating the 50th anniversary of the historic Bandung non-aligned conference.
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Lowy Institute Papers
Australia and Indonesia: current problems, future prospects
Since the fall of President Suharto in 1998, Australia-Indonesia relations have been quite volatile with the Indonesian Ambassador to Australia being withdrawn briefly in 2006,…