Audio recording of the presentation by Professor Michael L'Estrange AO on 7th December 2011. Professor L'Estrange discusses the emerging international security environment and the growing challenges for Australia's national security.

Recording of the presentation by Mr Michael Angwin, CEO, Australian Uranium Association on 8th February 2012. Mr Angwin discusses the maturing debate on Uranium and the themes and issues surrounding the nuclear power.

Audio recording of Dr Sally Totman's presentation on Wednesday 1 February 2012 at AIIA Victoria Dyason House. Dr Totman explains the progress, themes and idiosyncracies of the Arab Spring.

1st December 2011: AIIA National Executive Director, Melissa Conley Tyler, editors James Cotton, Professor of Politics at the University of New South Wales and the Australian Defence Force Academy, and John Ravenhill, Head of the School of Politics and International Relations, Research School of Social Sciences, at the Australian National University, launch 'Middle Power Dreaming: 2006 -2010', the latest book in AIIA's series 'Australia in World Affairs'.  Starting in 1950, the series provides a comprehensive record of Australian foreign policy.

For further information and order form, please see our Publications page.

7th December 2011: Professor Michael L'Estrange AO, Director of the National Security College at the ANU, presents at the AIIA VIC Festive Luncheon at Morgans 401.

Recording of presentation by Professor Joseph Siracusa at Dyason House on March 30, 2011. Professor Siracusa discusses the origins of the Cold War, the policies that fuelled it, and the evolution of the arms race.

Professor Tim Lindsey speaking at Dyason House on the topic: 'Indonesia's Democratic Spring Turns Chilly'

Recording of ACCESS Event at Dyason House on November 8, 2011. National Executive Director of the AIIA, Ms Melissa Conley Tyler, and the Founder of Ovava Limited, Mr Ikani Taliai, discuss the emerging concept of Citizen Diplomacy with a regional focus.

Part Two of the recording.

Recording of ACCESS Event at Dyason House, October 19, 2011. Joanna Hayter, the Executive Director of International Womens' Development Agency, and Mina Barling, Manager of Policy and Partnerships with Marie Stopes International Australia, discuss challenges and opportunities facing women in the context of Millennium Development Goal #3.

AIIAV Premier Event of the Year. Audio recording of presentation by Mr Dennis Richardson AO, Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on 'Foreign Policy in a Changing World.' Includes an appreciation by Mr Tony Walker, International Editor of 'The Australian Financial Review.' Held on Wednesday, October 12, 2011, 7pm for 7.30pm at The Australian Club, 110 William Street, Melbourne.

Recording of ACCESS Event at Dyason House, Wednesday 5th October, 2011.  Mr Kamal Fadel, Polisario Representative in Australia and Mr Tim Roberts SC.

 Recording of presentation by Professor Geoff Raby, former Australian Ambassador to China.  Held on Wednesday 28 September, 2011 at KPMG, 161 Collins Street, Melbourne.  Professor Raby brings a unique perspective to understanding China at a moment in time where it is poised for a generational change in leadership.

Recording of presentation by Mr Nick Bryant, BBC Foregin Correspondant in Australia.  Held at Dyason House, Wednesday 21st September, 2011.  Mr Bryant discusses how the world perceives Australia.  Do we live up to our self-image as the sun-blessed, relaxed, friendly and confident country, or does the world see us in an altogether different light?

Recording of presentation by Dr Ziggy Switkowski, Chancellor, RMIT University and former Chairman of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation.  Held on Wednesday 14 September, 2011 at Dyason House. Dr. Switkowski examines the immediate causes and consequences of the Fukushima events in 2011.

Recording of a joint event with Monash University focusing on the challenges presented to democratic states by neo-jihadism around the globe.  This presentation features Prof. Greg Barton, Dr Pete Lentini and Dr Natalie Doyle of Monash University and Mr Chris Heffelfinger, former FBI Fellow at the Combatting Terrorism Centre, West Point, US on Thursday the 8th of September, 2011 at Dyason House, 124 Jolimont Road, East Melbourne.

Recording of address by His Excellency James A. Michel - President of the Republic of Seychelles

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Recording of presentation by Professor Gilbert Rozman, Princeton University at Dyason House, 124 Jolimont Road, East Melbourne on Thursday the 11th of August, 2011.  China’s increasing economic and military capabilities have attracted much attention in recent years. Professor Rozman discusses the world's response to this emerging great power with particular attention to the United States and its allies in Asia and Australasia.  Professor Gilbert Rozman is the Musgrave Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, where he has studied rapidly changing Asian societies for more than four decades.  Professor Rozman is a Research Associate at Korea University and a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Professor Rozman is a speaker at the Fulbright Symposium on: “Australia-US Relations and the Rise of China: From Bilateralism to Trilateralism?”  AIIAV has partnered with Fulbright and Deakin University for this event, and AIIAV members are invited to attend the Symposium and can register at http://www.aiia.asn.au/vic-home/event/291-fulbright-symposium-australia-us-relations-and-the-rise-of-china

Australia’s Struggle for Security

Mr Cameron Stewart, Associate Editor, ‘The Australian’

Thursday 28 July, 2011
5.30pm – 7pm
Dyason House
124 Jolimont Road, East Melbourne

At a time when China’s military rise is threatening to recast the balance of power in Australia’s region, the nation’s security and defence policy is under severe pressure on several fronts.

The 2009 Defence White Paper which was framed to help combat a rising China is now unlikely to deliver on its grand promises.  Instead, Defence is beset by a series of high-profile scandals, multi-billion dollar blow-outs in defence acquisition projects and a budget crisis.

The Navy is struggling to put its ships and submarines to sea, and those it can are increasingly being redirected to other security issues such as intercepting asylum seeker boats.

Now the Government is considering inviting US forces to share its northern bases in a move which is likely to anger Beijing.

How has this happened and what is being debated behind closed doors in Canberra on these key issues?  What can the Government do to break this cycle?

Cameron Stewart is Associate Editor of 'The Australian' newspaper and one of Australia’s leading defence writers.  After starting his career as an intelligence officer with the Defence Signals Directorate, Mr Stewart has written on issues of defence, security, terrorism and international relations over two decades.  He recently broke the story that Australia’s largest defence project, the $8 billion plan to build three new air warfare destroyers, was already two years late, barely a year after the construction of the ships began.  Mr Stewart has won many awards for his work and in 2008 was named the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year.