Controversy
Sydney Alumni magazine and the university's newsletter published letters to the editor criticising the involvement of the American Australian Association. Some of the letter-writers suggest that the American Australian Association is a partisan organisation hoping to promulgate pro-American views through the Centre. Concerns about lack of academic independence and possible bias at the Centre were also voiced by the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University and political scientist Robert Manne
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