Adrift in Indo-Pacific Asia? Australian foreign and defence policy beyond the 2013 election

Foreign and defence policies are not dominating the 2013 Australian election campaign. Indeed, neither major party wants us to think that the country faces critical challenges and choices in the way it relates to the region and the world. Yet Australia's strategic environment is undergoing major change, with shifting balances of wealth, power and influence, and great uncertainty about how a rising China will use its future power. This presentation will highlight the risks in a business-as-usual approach to our diplomacy and defence policy, and some of the hard choices ahead for the next government.

Join Rory Medcalf,  Director of the Lowy Institute's International Security Program, who will be speaking on these topics at the Australian Institute of International Affairs in Brisbane.

The event details are as follows:

Date:               Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Time:              6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Place:             Harris Terrace

                      46 George Street , Brisbane, Queensland

Register:        Please note this is an external event organised by the Australian Institute of International Affairs. Please register through this link.

We hope you will be in a position to join us.