The 2018 National Conference and Masterclasses brought together some of Australia’s leading international affairs experts. Click on the below links for their contributions to conference and to Australian Outlook:

Australian Outlook

• Australian Foreign Policy: Making the World Work by Senator The Hon Marise Payne, Minister for Foreign Affairs
• The Disarmament Challenge in a Time of Disruption by Senator The Hon Penny Wong, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Development
• Bipolar Disorder: Australia, the United States and China by Allan Gyngell AO FAIIA, National President, Australian Institute of International Affairs
• The Jerusalem Embassy, Iran and Australia’s National Interest by John McCarthy AO FAIIA, former Ambassador or High Commissioner to the US, Japan, Indonesia, Mexico, Thailand and India and past National President, Australian Institute of International Affairs
• Intelligence and Diplomacy by Geoffrey Miller AO FAIIA, former Director-General of the Office of National Assessments, former Ambassador to Japan and South Korea and former High Commissioner to New Zealand
• Troubled Times for the World Economy by Professor Mark Beeson, Professor at the University of Western Australia and Research Chair, Australian Institute of International Affairs
• Maritime Disputes and the Rules-Based Order by Dr Rebecca Strating, Department of Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University
• Regulating the Third Revolution in Warfare by Professor Toby Walsh, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University New South Wales
• Shadow Ministers’ Move on Nuclear Ban Treaty by Richard Lennane, Executive Director of the Geneva Disarmament Platform 

Interviews

• Australia’s Contribution to Global Health interview with Associate Professor Helen Evans AO FAIIA,  Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne and former Deputy Executive Director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
• Strengthening Australia’s National Security interview with Professor Rory Medcalf, Head of the National Security College, Australian National University
• How to Avoid a US-China Trade War interview with Dr John Edwards, Adjunct Professor, John Curtin Institute of Public Policy and Fellow, Lowy Institute
• Australia’s Security and the US Alliance interview with Dr Elsina Wainwright, Senior Fellow, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney and Visiting Fellow, Center on International Cooperation, New York University

Podcast

• Australia in the World this Week by Allan Gyngell AO FAIIA and Dr Darren Lim, Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University