Archive of Transcripts from Past Public Events
Public Lectures
2008
17 September
Sunita Narain
INDIA: Learning from the Environmentalism of the Poor to Build Our Common Future (iLecture)
9 September
Carolyn Stevens
JAPAN: Anime Power! J-Pop! Rocks the World (iLecture)
2 September
Lijia Zhang
CHINA: Socialism is Great! (iLecture)
27 August
Muhammad Lutfi
INDONESIA: Current Developments, Future Challenges and Investment Opportunities (iLecture)
Presentation by Muhammad Lutfi [pdf, 3.2 mb, 12 pages]
19 August
Neville Roach AO and Debnath Guharoy
INDIA: Australia's Elephant in the Room? (iLecture)
Summary of Neville Roach's speech [pdf, 36 kb, 2 pages]
Presentation by Debnath Guharoy [pdf, 872 kb, 5 pages]
14 August
Prof David Goodman, Prof Louise Edwards, Dr Yingjie Guo and Ivan Cucco
CHINA: Panel Discussion on The New Rich in China (iLecture)
30 July
Dr Shashi Tharoor and Geraldine Doogue
The Elephant, the Tiger & the Cellphone - Reflections on the Ongoing Transformation of India (iLecture)
17 July
Nam Le and Cate Kennedy
THE BOAT: Author Nam Le in Conversation with Cate Kennedy (iLecture)
16 July
HE Mrs Sujatha Singh
People & Policy: Connecting India - Australia Interests (pdf, 104kb, 5 pages)
24 June
Dr Pradeep Taneja
PASSAGE TO INDIA: A Book Club Journey through Contemporary India No. 3 (iLecture)
Assoc Peter Deutschmann, Rev Tim Costello & Mr Murray Proctor
HEALTH: Securing Health in the Asia Pacific (iLecture)
3 June
Alice Pung, Tom Cho, Tony Ayres and Shalini Akhil with Triple J's John Safran
A NIGHT OF STORIES: Growing Up Asian in Australia (iLecture)
27 May
Ms Farah Farouque
PASSAGE TO INDIA: A Book Club Journey through Contemporary India No.2 (iLecture)
26 May
Mr Sadanand Dhume & Ms Linda Lopresti
INDONESIA: Sadanand Dhume in Conversation with Linda Lopresti (iLecture)
19 May
The Hon Julia Gillard MP
Asia Education Foundation Leading 21st Century Schools: Engage with Asia Forum [pdf, 140 kb, 8 pages]
12 May
David Goodman, Julia Gong, Dr. Pradeep Taneja
The Chinese Balancing Act for Australia (iLecture)
1 May
Mr James Kelly
EAST ASIA: A US Perspective on East Asia Security - Inside the Six-Party Talks (iLecture)
29 April
Prof Robin Jeffrey, ANU
PASSAGE TO INDIA: A Book Club Journey through Contemporary India No.1
Review of William Dalrymple's The Last Mughal (iLecture)
8 April
Launch of Dear Mr Rudd (iLecture)
26 February
HE Dr Nguyen Thien Nhan, Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam and Minister for Education and Training (iLecture)
The Hon Julia Gillard MP, Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, Minister of Employment and Workplace Relations, Minister for Education and For Social Inclusion (iLecture)
11 February
Indian Minister HE Shri Kapil Sibal
INDIA: Science, Technology for Sustainable Development in India (iLecture)
4 February
Professor Peter Drysdale
China-Japan Economics & Politics and their importance to Australia, the
Region and Beyond (iLecture)
Mr Drysdale's presentation [pdf, 288 kb, 21 pages]
2007
7 November
Alison Tate and Connie Levett
BURMA: Dateline Burma: Human Rights and New Media (iLecture)
11 October
Dr Ghada Karmi
Married to another man - Isrel's dilemma in Palestine (iLecture)
11 October
Professor Sebastian Edwards
Max Corden Lecture: Globalisation, Crises ad Growth (iLecture)
27 September
Waleed Aly in conversation with Dr Ian Coller
A Night of Stories: People Like Us (iLecture)
25 September
Professor Niraja Jayal
Sixty Years of Indian democracy: An Unfinished Project (iLecture)
20 September
Dr Yin Yin Nwe
From Burma to China, the UNICEF Journey (iLecture)
18 September
Raj Patel introduced by Pater Mares
Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food Order (iLecture)
23 August
Dr Graeme Pearman, Dr Peter Christoff and Professor Ross Garnaut as Chair
Five Minutes to Midnight - Climate Change (iLecture)
21 August
Cameron Forbes and Professor Tim Lindsey
Under the Volcano - The Story of Bali (iLecture)
12 July
Mark Thirlwell and Dr Pradeep Taneja as discussant
Second Thoughts on Globalisation: Can the Developed World Cope with the Rise of China and India? (iLecture)
3 July
Sidney Jones
FIVE MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT: Terrorism as a Family Activity - Understanding Jemaah Islamiyah's Social Ties (iLecture)
26 June
Dr Richard Feinberg
APEC and the Rise of Asian Economies [pdf, 104 kb, 6 pages]
4 June
Ms. Xue Xin-Ran (Author of Miss Chopsticks)
A Night of Stories (iLecture)
10 May
Professor Hugh White
FIVE MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT: Nuclear Threat in Asia (iLecture)
26 April
Professor Pranab Bardhan
CHINA & INDIA: The Rise of China and India - Comparative Economic Assessment (iLecture)
2 April
HE Mr. Miles Kupa (Australian High Commissioner to Singapore)
Singapore: A Regional Powerhouse and Australian Partner (iLecture)
26 March
HE Cho Change-Beom (Korean Ambassador)
SOUTH KOREA: Korea Today (iLecture)
15 March
Peter Hartcher (Political & International Editor, Sydney Morning Herald)
BIPOLAR NATION: How to Win the 2007 Election (iLecture)
14 March
Robyn Kilpatrick (Amnesty International), Rohini Weerasinghe ( Kantha Shakthi ), Dr Tahmina Rashid (RMIT)
SOUTH ASIA: Women & Human Rights in South Asia Today (iLecture)
21 February
Professor Raja Mohan
INDIA: Inaugural Lowy Australia-India Strategic Lecture [external link]
2006
13 November
Anthony Garnaut
Soul of Islam Lecture #7: Islam in Beijing [iLecture]
Mr Garnaut's presentation [pdf, 168 kb, 11 pages]
30 October
Hanifa Dean
Soul of Islam Lecture #6: The Crescent and the Pen - The Strange Journey of Taslima Nasreen - Author, Icon, Outcast (iLecture)
12 October
Professor Tanya Reinhart
What Are They Fighting For? Israel's fight against the Palestinians (iLecture)
2 October
Waleed Aly
Soul of Islam Lecture #5: The Hajj - A Personal Story (iLecture)
12 September
Professor L. Alan Winters
Max Corden Lecture 2006 - Trade Policy & Poverty: Cause or Cure (iLecture)
11 September
Saara Sabbagh
Soul of Islam Lecture #4: Motherhood: An Islamic Perspective (iLecture)
24 August
Nicholas R. Lardy
US Economic Engagement in Asia and implications for Australia (iLecture)
21 August
Suparto
Soul of Islam Lecture #3: Understanding Indonesian Pesantren: an Exploration from Within (iLecture)
17 August
Professor Victor Bulmer-Thomas OBE
China 's Peaceful Development - Six Reasons for Concern (iLecture)
10 August
Garry Woodard
We Now Know - How Australia went to war in Vietnam (iLecture)
31 July
Anisa Buckley
Soul of Islam Lecture #2: Movers and Shakers - Reconstructing Islam in Contemporary Muslim Thought (iLecture)
24 July
Dr Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan
India 's Space Enterprise - A Case Study in Strategic Thinking & Planning (iLecture)
10 July
Rachel Woodlock
Soul of Islam Lecture #1: From Cairo to Cape Town: A brief history of Muslim feminism (iLecture)
6 July
Professor Qin Yaqing
China 's Foreign Policy and Diplomacy (iLecture)
and
China's security Strategy with a Special Focus on East Asia [pdf, 216 kb, 53 pages]
19 June
Asialink Arts Forum: Blind Dates & Foreign Affairs - Australia/Asia Arts Residencies
Session 1: Shifting Plates: geographic & geopolitical differences (iLecture)
Session 2: Shared Tables: residencies & communities (iLecture)
Session 3: Altered Spaces: alternative, temporary & artist run exchanges (iLecture)
Session 4: Bearing Fruit: residencies & projects (iLecture)
16 June
Visiting Indonesian MPs: Dr. M.A.S. Hikam, Dr. Yusron Iza, Dr. Yuddy Chrisnady, Boy M.W. Saul and H.A. Chudlary Syafei Hadzame
Insight Indonesia Forum (iLecture)
31 May
Dewi Anggraeni
A Night of Stories Indonesia: A Tribute to Pramoedya Ananta Toer [pdf, 56 kb, 2 pages]
and
Anu Nathan
Remembering Pramoedya
30 May
John Banville and Alex Miller
Future Leaders Discussion (iLecture)
29 May
Deborah Cameron and Zilia Papp
Little yen for Australian artworks [pdf, 288 kb, 3 pages]
26 May
The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra
Live demonstration and Performance (iLecture)
24 May
Dr Milton Osborne
Paramount Power: China and the Countries of Southeast Asia [Courtesy of the Lowy Institute [pdf, 449 kb,131 pages]
22 May
Professor Bruce Jacobs, Professor Stuart Harris, Dr Malcolm Cook
Taiwan Straits: New Developments, New Approach? (iLecture)
and print version [pdf, 116kb, 7 pages]
12 April
Dr Graham Brown, Dr Robert Glasser and Elizabeth Birbillis
The Avian Flu: Impact, Solution and Readiness (iLecture)
7 April
Hon. Susil Premajayantha
Education Rebuilding in Post Tsunami Sri Lanka [pdf, 572 kb, 5 pages]
Education System in Sri Lanka [pdf, 128 kb, 4 pages]
28 March
Merrill J Fernando and Dilhan Fernand
Business Ethics and Social Justice (iLecture)
14 March
Vikram Seth and Hamish McDonald
A Night of Stories about India (iLecture)
2005
12 December
Jill Koolmees
The Sense of Islam Series Lecture #6: Modern Arabian Women (iLecture)
28 November
Dr Fiona Hill
The Sense of Islam Series Lecture #5: Syrian Bedouin Women (iLecture)
14 November
Susan Scollay
The Sense of Islam Series Lecture #4: Female Threads (iLecture)
24 October
Li Cunxin, Alex Miller and John Young
A Night of Stories about China (iLecture)
20 October
Dr Bates Gill and Professor Bruce Jacobs
US Perspectives on Managing China's "Peaceful Rise" (iLecture)
17 October
Dr Susan Aykut
The Sense of Islam Series Lecture #3: The Female Sphere of the Turkish Bath (iLecture)
30 September
Robert Fisk
Politics, Conflicts and Power Plays (iLecture)
28 September
W.S. Rendra
A Public Forum & Performance Poetry Reading with W.S. Rendra (iLecture)
19 September
Dr Christina Mayer
The Sense of Islam Lecture #2: Feminine Perspectives - Magic as Domestic Power (iLecture)
7 September
Dr Paul Monk
Rethinking China: Australia and the World [External Link]
15 August
Dr Alan Day
The Sense of Islam Lecture Series #1: The Divine Feminine (iLecture)
4 August
Bev Patterson, Megan Goodwin and Hang Vo& Hap Lu
The Hidden Trauma of War: The Missing and their Families (iLecture)
21 July
Sun Rising: Japanese Culture Today, Asialink Arts National Forum 2005
Japanese Vision: The Visual Arts Culture of Japan (iLecture)
Japanese Action: The Performative Culture of Japan (iLecture)
Japanese Words: The Literary Culture of Japan (iLecture)
A Japanese Conversation in English (iLecture)
5 July
Professor Tim Lindsey, Dr Krishna Sen and Rowan Callick
Corby, the Tsunami and Depictions of Asia in Australia (iLecture)
23 June
Justice Robyn Layton, Clyde Roxon, Professor Sarah Joseph, Garry Woodard
Human Rights in Burma: What More can the International Community Do? (iLecture)
22 June
Professor Richard Freeman and Terry Collingsworth
China : Facing the Challenges of Globalisation and Labour Issues [pdf, 1mb, 17 pages]
20 June
Professor Richard Freeman
Doubling the Global Workforce: The Challenge of Integrating China, India and the Former Soviet Bloc into the World Economy (iLecture)
23 May
Professor Jeffrey G. Williamson
Third World De-Industrialisation, Then and Now:Economic Order Vanished? (iLecture)
28 April
Dr Malcolm Cook, Professor Bruce Jacobs and Dr Paul Monk
Balancing Act: Taiwan's Cross-Strait Challenge (iLecture)
14 April
Cameron Forbes, David Manning & Dr Tomoko Akami
Australia and Japan: Sixty Years On (iLecture)
21 March
H.E. Dr Mari Pangestu
Public Lecture (iLecture)
22 March
Professor Ross Garnaut AO
The US and China FTAs and the Future of Regionalism [pdf, 104kb, 19 pages]
2004
10 November
Dr Christine Mayer
The Sense of Islam Lecture Series #6: Islamic Monuments of Syria, Turkey and Morocco (iLecture)
27 July
H.E Dr Alan Thomas
The Peaceful Rise of China: What does it mean for Australia and the Region [PDF, 140 kb, 10 pages]
17 May
Peter Mares, David Mark, Associate Professor Richard Leaver, Professor Iva Deutchman and Tony McAdam
US Presidential Elections: Implications for Australia and the Asia Pacific Region (iLecture)
13 May
Professor Diane Coyle
The Weightless World: How can Business Thrive in the New Global Economy? (iLecture)
31 March
Jimmy Pham
From Street to Restaurant: Combating Youth Poverty in Vietnam (iLecture)
23 March
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf with Margaret Coffey
Islam Under Seige: Towards a New Vision for Islam and the West (iLecture)
26 February
Yasushi Akashi
Peace and Security After 9-11: Australia, Japan and the Asia Pacific Region (iLecture)
2002
9 December
Lord Professor Meghnad Desai
Nineteenth Asialink Lecture
14 November
Geremie R. Barmé
Over 30 years of China and Australia-some thoughts on a glum convergence
14 November
Professor Stephen FitzGerald AO
Australia's China Reassessed: The Management of Expectations on the 30th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations
23 October
Peter Mares (Host)
"Terrorism at Australia's Front Door" (ABC Radio Transcript)
5 September
Professor Wang Gungwu
The Emergence of China
19 June
Rodolfo C. Severino
The Regional Economy, the Environment and ASEAN Solidarity
17 April
Stephen FitzGerald
Australia's Relations with Asia: Scholars, Practitioners and the Lost Debate (Words for a Book Launch)
11 April
Abdurrahman Wahid
Asialink Public Lecture and Book Launch
7 March
Dr Jamileh Kadivar MP
Iran and its Region Post 11 September
6 March
David Suzuki
Hope for a Troubled Planet: The Good News Story
7 February
HE Peter van Waslum
The East Timor Crisis and the Doctrine of Humanitarian Intervention
7 February
Tony Kevin
Response to Peter van Walsum's Paper at MIALS
2001
19 November
Sudjadnan Parnohadiningrat
Australia and Indonesia Update
14 November
HE Delia Domingo Albert
The Future of ASEAN and Australia-ASEAN Relations
18 October
Arifah Rahmawati
From People to People: Indonesia’s Ethnic and Religious Conflicts and its Resolution
16 August
Mark Baird
Indonesia: What lies ahead?
31 May
Dr Damien Kingsbury
Australia and South-East Asia: Embargoed
Laurie Brereton MP
Australia and Indonesia: Building a new relationship
9 May
The Hon Tim Fischer
Book launch "Thai Agriculture: Golden Cradle of Milennia " by Prof Lindsay Falvey
Opening Speech
14 March
Scott Burchill
Australia & Asia Between arrogance and deference
22 May
The Hon Soli Sorabjee
Freedom of the Media in India - Constitution and Courts
February
Andrew Cheung
Wayne Tseng
John Lawrence
E-volution: Reality Bytes in the Asian Region
1999
December
Lieutenant General John Sanderson
Australia's Millennial Shift - A new role in Asia?
Mr Goenawan Mohamad
The Kenneth & Yasuko Myer Walkley Media Lecture
The Hon Mr Peter Costello MP
16th Asialink Lecture
Dr Damien Kingsbury, Professor Tim McCormack, Hidayat Djajamihardja, Abel Gueterras, Professor Arief Budiman
Seminar on East Timor
Jenny Wallis
Seminar on Hong Kong
August
The Hon Kevin Rudd MP
Troubled Waters: An emerging crisis across the Taiwan Strait
July
Professor Ramesh Thakur
Reshaping Regional Relations
June
The Hon Alexander Downer MP & Dr Tim Lindsey
Australia-Indonesia Relations - New Directions
April
Zhou Hong Li
Shanghai and Australia - Future Directions
Dr Pasuk Phongpaichit & Chris Baker
Thailand - light at the end of the tunnel?
February
Sir David Akers-Jones
Hong Kong Update 1999