All AIIA in-person events have been cancelled or postponed. Some branches are moving towards online events. Click here to find out more.
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Applications for the AIIA’s 2020 Publication Support Grant are now open. Succussful applicants will recieve up to $7,500 to facilitate the publication of an original and high quality book on a contemporary topic of major relevance to Australia’s international affairs.
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On February 21, the AIIA co-sponsored a public policy roundtable in Adelaide with the University of Adelaide’s Institute for International Trade: Australia-EU Free Trade Agreement: Boosting Australian Innovation and Services Exports
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Scholars and practitioners met in Tokyo for the second iteration of the AIIA’s Indo-Pacific Research Forum. Read the event description and see videos and photos taken during the day!
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On Monday 20 January, the AIIA national office hosted a roundtable on Japan in the Indo-Pacific.
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AIIA National Conference 2019 highlights
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On Wednesday 27 November, AIIA NSW held their annual Charteris Dinner and Oration 2019 at the Sydney Hilton
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For the last three years, the AIIA National Office has supported the EU-Australia Leadership Forum. AIIA National Executive Director Dr Bryce Wakefield facilitated the final stakeholder event of the forum on 27 September. Participants at the event spoke on their experiences on the forum and celebrated deepening the relationship between the European Union and Australia
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Australian Outlook

Bayswater Power Station, a coal power plant in New South Wales, Australia. Source: Webaware https://bit.ly/3dQwqrX

Using National Security to Reframe Australia’s Coal Debate

03 April 2020

Environmental arguments against coal don’t work. It's time to mobilise a new national interest against Australia’s harmful addiction - the national security interest.

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (middle) during a press conference on the Coronavirus with Chief Medical Officer for England Chris Whitty (left), and Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Vallance (right) inside No10 Downing Street. Source: Stephen Harvey/No10 Downing Street https://bit.ly/2X0l1jb

Policy Dilemmas in a War on Disease

By Professor Christian Enemark

02 April 2020

In responding to the dreaded Coronavirus outbreak, governments on a war footing face a policy dilemma: remedy or overkill? It is right and important, always, to be sensitive to the possibility that government action might do more harm than good.

View of the ocean in Nauru. Source: Sean Kelleher https://bit.ly/3aCucdK

Enabling Authoritarianism in the Indo-Pacific?

By Dr Rebecca Strating

02 April 2020

The term “Indo-Pacific” has become increasingly present in Australian foreign policy discourses, particularly in terms of democracy promotion. Yet perceptions of exceptionalism can have the opposite effect.

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