YANGON, February 2012 – Asialink’s signature Track II diplomacy initiative, The Conversations, were this year held in Yangon, Myanmar. More than 40 delegates from 12 countries attended the event, which comes in the context of a wave of democratic reform in Myanmar.This video features footage from Yangon, including interviews with selected participants.Find out more here:http://asialink.unimelb.edu.au/Media/asialink_to_host_asean_regional_dialogue_in_yangon,_myanmar/_nocache
MELBOURNE This public forum brought together experts from government, academic and development circles to analyse Chinese and Australian aid strategies in the Asia-Pacific region. How do the Chinese and Australian approaches differ, and how are they perceived by recipient nations?The forum was moderated by Jim Middleton and features AusAid’s Paul Nichols, Anthea Mulakala of The Asia Foundation, and Australian academics Philippa Brant and Dr Chengxin Pan.Listen to full audio here:http://harangu...
MELBOURNE, 28 November 2011 - Australia has vastly more to gain than to lose from the rise of China, India and the rest of emerging Asia, says The Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP, Shadow Minister for Communications and Broadband. This is the full video from Mr Turnbull's address at the 2011 Asialink Chairman's Dinner and launch of the 2011 PwC Melbourne Institute Asialink Index.
MELBOURNE, 15 November 2011 – Eminent former diplomat and senior public servant Philip Flood AO spoke to Asialink prior to the launch of his memoir. In the wide-ranging interview, Mr Flood discussed Australia’s place in a rapidly changing region, with a focus on Asia Literacy, the rise of China and the administration of aid. Flood’s career highlights include Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador to Indonesia and Director-General of AusAID. He was also High Commissioner to ...
MELBOURNE, 15 November 2011 - Gareth Evans ‘lifted the platform’ for Australia’s relationship with Indonesia, says former diplomat and senior public servant Philip Flood AO. Flood explains that after good relations in the 1940s, the relationship ‘drifted’ in the subsequent 30 years. ‘Evans set out to arrest that drift and to put more substance and more ballast into the relationship,’ he says.Flood made the comments in an interview prior to the Melbourne launch of his memoir, Dancing with Warri...
MELBOURNE, 18 October 2011 – Natalie King, Director of Utopia – a roving visual arts project for the Asia Pacific region – speaks at the Intimate Publics forum as part of the Melbourne Festival. Also appearing in this video is Tan Boon Hui, part of the Utopia curatorium and Director of the Singapore Art Museum. Find out more about Utopia here:http://www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au/our_work/arts/utopia
MELBOURNE, 28 September 2011 – Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced the commissioning of a White Paper on Australia in the Asian Century, at a luncheon hosted by Asialink and the Asia Society AustralAsia Centre.Ken Henry will lead the preparation of the White Paper, which “should generate a set of general propositions to guide policy development over the long-term.”Full reporting of the event will be available shortly.More Asialink Video
MELBOURNE, 10 August, 2011 – Australia faces its most significant foreign policy decisions in more than 40 years, said Professor Hugh White in a keynote speech to over 200 people at Asialink/Asia Society AustralAsia Centre. “Can [Australia] avoid Chinese hegemony, without buying ourselves into a full-scale strategic competition with the US and China?”, he asked. Full audio of the event available here:http://harangue.lecture.unimelb.edu.au/Lectopia/Lectopia.lasso?ut=1633&id=123486For more Asial...
The Asialink Leaders Program equips Australians with the knowledge and networks required for this, the Asian Century. This video introduction to the Program features alumni Waleed Aly and Dorjee Sun along with contributors Dr Margaret Byrne and Professor Tim Lindsey.Music by Martin Kennedy. For more information about the Program, visitwww.asialink.uninmelb.edu.au/leaders
MELBOURNE, 28 July, 2011 - In this video Professor Anthony Milner gives his assessment of the ‘Asia’ history dimensions of Australia’s recently formulated National Curriculum. ‘With a history curriculum we’re creating an Australian attitude, an Australian frame of mind for the next generation – so we’ve got to get this right,” he said.Professor Milner is Basham Professor of Asian History, Australian National University, and Asialink’s International Director. The video is an introduction to his...