“Good international citizenship” was a major theme in Gareth Evans’s role as Australia’s foreign minister and has also featured in his post-parliamentary career. It is helpful to have his perspective on this matter elaborated in this short, very readable book.

Last month Australia ended its direct aid to the Palestinian Authority and suspended Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA’s multi-million dollar program in Palestine. It is time to change the trajectory of jaundiced scepticism of everything Palestinian.

As the holiday season comes to an end, it's a good time to take stock of the books it would have been good to have had on your beach reading list.

Gareth Evans' memoir makes clear his vision of good international citizenship and is enlightening about critical recent global challenges.