Taking statecraft seriously: Allan Gyngell's legacy in reimagining Australian foreign policy

In the last year of his life Allan Gyngell frequently turned to the matter of Australia's agency in the world: 'Australians need to see themselves as the actor, not the audience, in the drama of the changing world,' he insisted (Ghazavi 2023). Discussing the 'polycrisis' - a term popularised by Adam Tooze to describe the notion of converging and spiralling crises - he said.