The US Mid-Term Elections
Mr Tom Switzer
Hosted by: AIIA Qld
The event will start on: Tuesday, 09 November 2010 6:00 PM
And will end on: Tuesday, 09 November 2010 7:30 PM
46 George Street , Brisbane Queensland
Posted by: qld
Tom Switzer is a research associate at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney where he also teaches undergraduate courses in American politics and Australian political and diplomatic history. He is also editor of The Spectator Australia and a research fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs in Melbourne.
In 2009 he was a candidate in the Liberal party primary for the federal seat of Bradfield in northern Sydney. In 2008 he was senior adviser to former federal Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson. Before that, he was opinion page editor for The Australian (2001-08), an editorial writer at The Australian Financial Review (1998-2001) and an assistant editor at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC (1995-98). He has also contributed articles to the Wall Street Journal (US, Asia and Europe), International Herald Tribune, the American Interest, Far Eastern Economic Review, the American Review, ABC The Drum, the American Conservative, the American Enterprise, the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Literary Review, Courier Mail, Newcastle Herald, Quarterly Essay and Quadrant magazine. He has a Masters in International Relations in 1994 and a Bachelor of Arts in History (First Class Honours) in 1993, both at the University of Sydney.
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