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Australia’s Advancing Response to End Modern Slavery

Jane Duke, Australia’s Ambassador to Counter Modern Slavery, People Smuggling and Human Trafficking
Lucy Klein, Emergent Track Leader at AIIA SA

Dec 8, 2025 10:00 - Dec 8, 2025 11:30
DFAT South Australia State Office, Adelaide
Silk Silver Opium: The trade with China that changed history

Michael Pembroke, Writer

Dec 9, 2025 18:00 - Dec 9, 2025 20:00
Glover Cottages, Millers Point, NSW; in person only
AIIA QLD Trivia Night: An Evening of International Mystery
Dec 9, 2025 17:30 - Dec 9, 2025 19:00
Location Hemmants List Centre, Brisbane; in person only
Adeleide Climate Talk

H.E. Ambassador Beate Grezek, Ambassador at Federal Republic of Germany to Australia; Salote Tagivakatini, Lawyer and Former Fijian Career Diplomat; Ambika Vishwanath, La Trobe Asia; Professor Joanne Wallis, University of Adelaide

Dec 10, 2025 18:00 - Dec 10, 2025 19:30
Stone & Chalk, Adeleide; hybrid

Video and Audio

Penny Wong Keynote Address to AIIA Gala Dinner
04 Dec 2025
Penny Wong Keynote Address to AIIA Gala Dinner
AIIA National Conference Keynote: Senator the Honourable Jonathan Duniam
04 Dec 2025
AIIA National Conference Keynote: Senator the Honourable Jonathan Duniam
AIIA 2025 In Sum: AIIA National Conference 2025 Closing Summation
04 Dec 2025
AIIA 2025 In Sum: AIIA National Conference 2025 Closing Summation
Indo-Pacific Cooperation Network

A cross-national network on disaster resilience

The Indo-Pacific Cooperation Network is a unique, fully-funded cross-national network established by the AIIA and the Japan Foundation. In 2023 and 2024, 15 emerging leaders in their field were selected from more than 12 countries in both years to examine disaster resilience policies and initiatives through study tours to Japan, Australia, Fiji, Tonga, and New Zealand. Click below to discover more about the network, get to know the network participants, or to find out how to apply!

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Australian Outlook

04 Dec 2025
Fiji is an active actor in the international politics of outer space. The present article aims to explain how Fiji´s internal needs and external engagements could potentially lead the country
02 Dec 2025
At the end of the Cold War, Europe could assume that the threat of a conventional war with Russia was remote. The USSR had collapsed and US military dominance would
02 Dec 2025
The 25th anniversary of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda is a timely reminder for us to critically assess how far we have come in recognising and responding to
01 Dec 2025
When Montenegro’s President Jakov Milatović visited Washington in November 2025 to observe 120 years of diplomatic relations between Montenegro and the United States, he offered a line in his speech
01 Dec 2025
A cascade of radioactive contamination has triggered an unprecedented trade crisis for Indonesia, exposing decades-old industrial safety gaps that now threaten the country’s reputation as a reliable global supplier. With

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AIIA News

CANBERRA — Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Senator the Hon Penny Wong delivered a focused and forward-looking keynote at the AIIA National Conference Gala Dinner on 17 November, outlining Australia’s […]

SYDNEY — Dr Bryce Wakefield, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA), appeared before the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee to give evidence […]

KYIV – The Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) is committed to connecting Australia to key global conversations on security and international relations. In this spirit, AIIA CEO Dr Bryce […]

MUNICH, BERLIN, AND KYIV — Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) CEO Dr Bryce Wakefield travelled to Germany in early September for a series of meetings aimed at deepening cooperation […]

MELBOURNE – AIIA Victoria held its 19th International Careers Conference (ICC) today, one of its annual flagship events over 100 attendees, to provide students and recent graduates with insights and advice on building international […]

CADENNABIA – Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) CEO Dr Bryce Wakefield was invited this week to speak at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Roundtable on Rebalancing NATO, held at the former German […]

CANBERRA – The ACT Branch of the Australian Institute of International Affairs has announced its 2025 Annual Dinner, an evening set to combine distinguished company, thoughtful discussion, and fine dining […]

19 Aug 2025

MELBOURNE – The Australian Institute of International Affairs Victoria (AIIA VIC), in partnership with the Melbourne Press Club, is honoured to host Yulia Navalnaya on her first visit to Australia […]

AIIA in the Media

25 November 2025
AIIA CEO Dr Bryce Wakefield interviewed by the ABC: "The Russians are just playing the West and their friend in the White House."
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24 November 2025
An excerpt of AIIA President Dr Heather Smith PSM FAIIA's National Conference address was published by the Australian Financial Review: "Australia, is now caught in dangerous crossfire as both giants look for disruptive ways to exert leverage over the other’s economy, as we have seen on rare earths and semiconductors and in competing demands for foreign firms to comply with Chinese or US law."
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18 November 2025
Sky News posted video coverage of Foreign Minister Penny Wong's landmark speech to the AIIA National Conference Gala Dinner.
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17 November 2025
The ABC reported on Foreign Minister Penny Wong's "major speech" at the AIIA National Conference Gala Dinner. Coverage of the speech appeared in numerous outlets, including the Australian, the AFR, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age, and News.com.au.
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14 October 2025
AIIA CEO Dr Bryce Wakefield quoted in the Nightly: “It’s hardly necessary for Australia, a country with stretched diplomatic resources that has signalled its priorities lie within its own region, to drop everything to attend an impromptu summit called by Trump.”
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19 September 2025
Bill Shorten's remarks to the AIIA ACT Branch Annual Dinner cited: "In his address, delivered to the Australian Institute of International Affairs on Thursday, he linked the imperative for change in the university sector to Australia’s need to strengthen its economic resilience, which was a “pillar of national security”."
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18 September 2025
Bill Shorten's remarks to the AIIA ACT Branch Annual Dinner cited: “For the better part of three decades, Australia has enjoyed a holiday from history,” he said in a speech to the Australian Institute of International Affairs in Canberra.
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18 September 2025
Bill Shorten's remarks to the AIIA ACT Branch Annual Dinner cited: “Reimagining our modern universities is not simply an architectural reform; it is a national security and foreign policy imperative,” he told the Australian Institute of International Affairs on Thursday evening.
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18 August 2025
Various international outlets covered an Australian Outlook article on US tarriffs on India by Anna Mahjar-Barducci: India Is Not a Trade Adversary but a Partner: Lessons from the India-UK FTA
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12 August 2025
Several news outlets reported that AIIA National President Dr Heather Smith PSM FAIIA was chosen to contribute to the Australian Government's Economic Reform Roundtable this week, the sole representative of an international affairs research organisation to have been selected for this blue ribbon panel.
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5 August 2025
AIIA National Projects and Publications Manager Emily Mosley calls for better education around social media rather than an outright youth ban in her article for the Australian Financial Review.
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14 July 2025
AIIA CEO Dr Bryce Wakefield quoted in the Nightly: “Orban, along with Slovakia’s Robert Fico, will continue to be the European leader most sympathetic to the MAGA cause,” Dr Wakefield said. “However, the longer Trump continues to engage Putin on Ukraine without deliverables, the more Budapest will be uncomfortable giving Washington a blank cheque.”
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