http://news.aag.org/2015/02/in-memoriam-graeme-hugo/

Most of the remarks come from the website of The American Association of Geographers.

I'm suspicious of those that started as Marxists then become Socialists or Social Commentators.

This is what happened with Herbert Marcuse of the controversial Frankfurt School and considered the Father of the New Left.

"His best known works are Eros and Civilization (1955) and One-Dimensional Man (1964). His Marxist scholarship inspired many radical intellectuals and political activists in the 1960s and 1970s, both in the United States and internationally. .. Marcuse's critiques of capitalist society (especially his 1955 synthesis of Marx and Sigmund Freud, Eros and Civilization, and his 1964 book One-Dimensional Man) resonated with the concerns of the student movement in the 1960s. ... Noam Chomsky, who knew and liked Marcuse "but thought very little of his work."[24] Marcuse's 1965 essay "Repressive Tolerance"... In 1972 he wrote Counterrevolution and Revolt, which argues that the hopes of the 1960s were facing a counterrevolution from the right."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse

On the other hand James Burnham appears to have been genuinely reformed from Marxism.

"James Burnham (November 22, 1905 – July 28, 1987) was an American philosopher and political theorist. Burnham became a prominent Trotskyist activist in the 1930s. ... he became a friend to Leon Trotsky. Writing for Partisan Review, Burnham was also an important influence on writers including Dwight Macdonald and Philip Rahv.[10] However, Burnham's engagement with Trotskyism was short-lived: from 1937 a number of disagreements came to the fore. ...He rejected Marxism and became an even more influential theorist of the right as a leader of the American conservative movement.[1] His book The Managerial Revolution, published in 1941, speculated on the future of capitalism. Burnham was an editor and a regular contributor to William F. Buckley's conservative magazine National Review on a variety of topics. He rejected containment of the Soviet Union and called for the rollback of communism worldwide."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burnham

Back to topic:

Misopinionated,

'Asianisation': what do you mean by this portmanteau term ? Asia is a huge continent, with a multitude of centres of civilisation and culture. Is there some sort of idiot suggestion that 'Asians', no matter where they are based or from, somehow conspire to work together ?

Chinese (Han, Uihgur, Hakka, Tiewchew, Tibetan, Hokkien, fifty minority groups, etc.), with Japanese, with Filipinos/Filipinas, Vietnamese, Indonesians, Sri Lankans, North Indians/South Indians, with Pakistanis, with Afghans (Pathans, Hazara, Uzbeks, Tajiks), Thai, Burmese of various conflicting groups, Iranians, Arabs, Kurds, Turks, Azeris and Armenians ?

All secretly conspiring together to take over Australia ? Is that it ?

You may have to provide some basic evidence.

Joe

From memory Asianisation was talked about in the public sphere numerous times and has become policy of both sides over the forty year period from Bob Hawk (including Tiananmen Square 1989), Paul Keating, etc. Perhaps even Whitlam influenced this process through his meeting with communist leaders and leading to Nixon's meetings. Whitlam was seemingly sceptical about the value of US / Australian relations.