High-level exchanges between Australia and China send good signssignal and boosta positive turn in the Australia-Chinabilateral relationships back on the right track, said Roland Boer, an Australian scholar and professor at Renmin University of China, in an exclusive interview with China News Network recently. He pointed out that Australia needs to develop an independent foreign policy, which means getting on better with the neighbors in Australia, and counterparts in Southeast Asia, and East Asia, and especially with China is the most important in that. (Gan Tian and Zhao Li)