The ''Australian Journal of International Affairs'' is an

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that was established in 1947 as ''Australian Outlook''. It is published by

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on behalf of the

Australian Institute of International Affairs The Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) is an Australian research institute and think tank which focuses on International relations. It publishes the ''Australian Journal of International Affairs''. It is one of the oldest act ...

. Its forerunner was the ''Austral-Asiatic Bulletin'', which was published from 1936 by the Victorian Branch of the Institute until the Institute decided that it needed a journal "so that each branch of the AIIA could feel ownership of the publication." It has been suggested that a focus on the Australian war effort and destruction of Europe during World War II made the focus on the "Asiatic" outdated and prompted the editors of the new journal to name it ''Australian Outlook''. The journal marked a shift in focus for Australian International Relations scholarship which until then, and reflected in the ''Austral-Asiatic Bulletin'' considered questions of the development of the internal territories of Australia, particularly the Northern Territory, as an "international" question. The

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are Ian Hall and Sara Davies (

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). Earlier editors include Nick Bisley (

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), Andrew O'Neil (

), Michael Wesley (Griffith University), and William T. Tow (

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