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AIIA Gala Dinner

An Evening of Stunning Views and Insights

The AIIA Gala Dinner 2025 keynote speaker is Senator the Honourable Penny Wong, Minister for Foreign Affairs.

The AIIA Gala Dinner will take place on the evening of the AIIA National Conference, Monday 17 November, at the stunning National Arboretum in Canberra.

Register now for the Gala Dinner as a separate event or as a joint registration with the conference. A description of conference themes is on the conference homepage.

Upcoming Events

In conversation Dr David Morris

Dr David Morris, Australia China Business Council (Tasmania)

Oct 14, 2025 17:30 - Oct 14, 2025 19:00
Law Faculty, Univ of Tasmania Hobart; in person only
PNG at 50: what was, what is, and what comes next for Australia’s nearest neighbour?

Sean Dorney AO MBE CSM FAIIA, Sean Jacobs, Dulciana Somare-Brash

Oct 14, 2025 18:00 - Oct 14, 2025 19:00
Hemmant's List, Level 6/32 Turbot Street, Brisbane, Queensland
Through the Digital Looking Glass: Understanding China via its Platforms

Dr. Maggie Jiang, University of Western Australia

Oct 14, 2025 18:00 - Oct 14, 2025 20:00
The Ashburton Room, Forrest Hall 21 Hackett Dr, Adeleide; in person only
German cultural dialogue

Dr Bryce Wakefield, AIIA; Andreas Radtke, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES); Sabina Wölkner, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS); Robin Hering, German Embassy Australia

Oct 21, 2025 18:00 - Oct 21, 2025 20:00
Harmonie German Club, Canberra
Foreign Policy in an Age of Absurdity

Bec Strating, Director of the La Trobe Centre for Global Security

Oct 21, 2025 18:00 - Oct 21, 2025 19:00
Level 13, 356 Collins Street, Melbourne 3000
Multilateralism in Peril: Implications for Australia

Susan Harris Rimmer, Professor at Griffith University

Oct 21, 2025 18:00 - Oct 21, 2025 19:00
Hemmant's List, Level 6/32, Turbot Street, Brisbane, Queensland
AIIA Gala Dinner

With keynote speaker Minister for Foreign Affairs Senator the Honourable Penny Wong

Nov 17, 2025 18:30 - Nov 17, 2025 21:30
National Arboretum in Canberra
AIIA National Conference 2025: A World Disrupted

Keynote speeches by Shadow Minster for Foreign Affairs Senator the Honourable Michaelia Cash, OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann, and AIIA National President Dr Heather Smith PSM FAIIA

Nov 17, 2025 09:00 - Nov 17, 2025 21:00
Hotel Realm and National Arboretum, Canberra

Video and Audio

Australian Police Diplomacy: What it is and Why it matters
03 Oct 2025
Australian Police Diplomacy: What it is and Why it matters
Why Putin Cannot Win
25 Sep 2025
Why Putin Cannot Win
From Oceans to Alliances: Redefining the Indo-Pacific with the QUAD
18 Sep 2025
From Oceans to Alliances: Redefining the Indo-Pacific with the QUAD
AIIA National Conference 2025

AIIA National Conference Registration is Open!

Registration is open for the AIIA National Conference. Don’t miss your chance to meet with policy leaders, diplomats, international business representatives, and scholars at our flagship event on Australian foreign policy! Early bird concessions available.

Australian Outlook

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The Sudanese conflict keeps burning, and the cost is rising. Tens of thousands have died, millions have been displaced, and entire cities are destroyed. There have been increasing attacks on

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AIIA News

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 […]

LONDON — Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) National President Dr Heather Smith PSM FAIIA met with Ben Bland, Director of the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House. Their conversation ranged across […]

AIIA in the Media

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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12 July 2025
AIIA CEO Dr Bryce Wakefield quoted by the BBC: "This is part of a broader, understated and mature diplomacy from the current government and it does not fall into the recriminations of previous years."
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24 June 2025
AIIA CEO Bryce Wakefield quoted in the Nightly: “The US strategy on pressuring allies with a one-size-fits-all approach may work with NATO, where there is a hot war near the eastern flank and a history of European nations coordinating on policy, but it’s less effective against the individual countries of the Indo-Pacific, which have different and specific political contexts within which they must operate.”
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18 June 2025
AIIA Programs and Publications Manager Emily Mosley cited by Radio New Zealand: "The choice before us is clear: Engage with the whole breadth of American institutions and demand accountability and stability, or panic and risk eroding one of the most effective checks."
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3 June 2025
Jack Jarmon's Australian Outlook article "In Russia, the Chips are Down" cited in the Frankfurter Rundschau: A problematic legacy of outdated equipment and a lack of personnel hampered Russia's efforts to build its own world-class industry. According to the Australian Institute of International Affairs, this continues to have repercussions for the Russian chip industry.
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27 May 2025
Former AIIA National Office Intern Jasper Hufschmidt Morse's Australian Outlook article covered extensively in Frankfurter Rundschau: "What would happen if Russian aircraft were intercepted in German or another NATO member state's airspace, Jasper Hufschmidt Morse asked in his analysis for the Australian Institute of International Affairs."
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