However, during the past four years, the Australian Liberal-National Coalition government has been displaying an incredulously juvenile world outlook. It has further shown injudicious judgments, and an immature understanding of its relations with the rest of the international community. Canberra unrealistically presumes that by challenging and insulting a big country such as China, Australia would be able to boast about and celebrate its "coming of age." Whenever differences or frictions have occurred, Canberra would categorically sidestep conventional diplomacy of frank and open discussions as adults. It has instead petulantly vented wrath and fury with offensive rhetoric and aggressive measures.
An adolescent undergoing growing pains would act out impulsively often without deliberating upon the ensuing consequences and costs. Maturity in its true sense is characterized with long-term deliberations, open-mindedness, tolerance and mutual trust. Querulous finger-pointing and insensible complaints only betray a deep-rooted sense of frailty and insecurity.