Senator Macquarrie urged open mind on international relations: ‘If you don’t talk to your enemy, who are you going to make peace with?’ — Tory Senator Heath Macquarrie

It was June 1978. I was then Tory MP Heath Macquarrie's research assistant and we were sitting in Alexandria, Egypt in a meeting with the now late president Anwar Sadat and then vice-president Hosni Mubarak. Mr. Macquarrie turned to me and asked if I had any questions for the Egyptian President. ...

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