Canada, the Commonwealth and South Africa: National Foreign Policy-Making in a Multilateral Environment

Cameron, Ian O.

doi:10.1177/03058298890180020801

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“…Canada by the late 1970s, imposed a similar voluntary employment code (Redekop 1986;Nossal 1988;Cameron 1989). These codes, as with the EC code and the Sullivan Principles, have been key elements in an unorchestrated but multilateralist anti-apartheid program.…”

Section: The International Context: Codes Of Conductmentioning

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A critical assessment of the Hawke government's 1985 code of conduct for Australian companies with interests in the republic of South Africa

Cox

1994

Australian Journal of Political Science

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Like other Australian governments in the contemporary period the Hawke government sought to enhance its international standing by condemning apartheid. Failing to implement effective policy to match the strong criticism exposed the rhetorical character of the government's South Africa policy. Repeatedly the Hawke government found itself defending a policy framework, which in opposition it had denounced. In essence Australia's South Africa policy had displayed little principle. Refusing to play sport while maintaining bilateral trade and investment with South Africa, underscored the contradictory basis of Australia's South Africa policy. In an effort to redress this policy imbalance the Hawke government chose to enact an employment code for Australian employers of black South African labour. The government promoted this element of policy as a substantial advance in reformulating its overall policy approach. Archival documents and material released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal a very different image.

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Section: The International Context: Codes Of Conductmentioning

confidence: 99%