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  • Report: Asialink Conversations in Yangon, Myanmar

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    YANGON, February 2012 – Asialink’s signature Track II diplomacy initiative, The Conversations, were this year held in Yangon, Myanmar. More than 40 delegates from 12 countries attended the event, which comes in the context of a wave of democratic reform in Myanmar.

  • Raw Vision: Asialink Conversations in Yangon, Myanmar

    Asialink Conversations

    YANGON, February 4 2012 – Asialink’s signature Track II diplomacy initiative, The Conversations, were this year held in Yangon, Myanmar. More than 40 delegates from 12 countries attended the event, which come in the context of a wave of democratic reform in Myanmar.

  • Malcolm Turnbull: Asia’s gain is ours too

    Malcolm Turnbull

    MELBOURNE, 28 November 2011 - Australia has vastly more to gain than to lose from the rise of China, India and the rest of emerging Asia, says The Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP, Shadow Minister for Communications and Broadband.

  • Philip Flood on China, aid and the life of a diplomat

    Philip Flood

    MELBOURNE, 15 November 2011 – Eminent former diplomat and senior public servant Philip Flood AO spoke to Asialink prior to the launch of his memoir.

  • Flood: Gareth Evans a pioneer of Aus-Indo ties

    Philip Flood

    MELBOURNE, 15 November 2011 - Gareth Evans ‘lifted the platform’ for Australia’s relationship with Indonesia, says former diplomat and senior public servant Philip Flood AO.

  • White Paper to build Australia's role in Asia

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    MELBOURNE, 28 September 2011 – Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced the commissioning of a White Paper on Australia in the Asian Century, at a luncheon hosted by Asialink and the Asia Society AustralAsia Centre.

  • Full Video - Prime Minister Julia Gillard announces White Paper

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    MELBOURNE, 28 September 2011 – Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivers the keynote address at a luncheon hosted by Asialink and the Asia Society AustralAsia Centre.

  • The US & China - Does Australia need to choose sides?

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    MELBOURNE, 10 August, 2011 – Australia faces its most significant foreign policy decisions in more than 40 years, said Professor Hugh White in a keynote speech to over 200 people at Asialink/Asia Society AustralAsia Centre.

  • Where is the Australia India conversation?

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    MELBOURNE, 26 July 2011 – As Australian and Indian values and interests converge, there remains a lack of conversation between the two countries, says Professor Amitabh Mattoo, inaugural director of the Australia India Institute.

  • Taxing carbon in Australia and India

    Peter Varghese

    MELBOURNE, 11 July 2011 – Australia may soon join India as one of the few countries that taxes carbon. This initiative strengthens a partnership between both countries to address climate change, says Australian High Commissioner to India, Mr Peter Varghese AO.