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Program Streams

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Across our work, Asia Society Australia focusses on four interconnected themes, which we believe will continue to shape Australia’s future in the region.

Complex Asia: Building a deeper understanding of geopolitical, economic and strategic forces shaping Australia’s future in Asia.

Trade Smarter: Informing Australia’s trade and investment expansion and innovation in the region.

Living with China: Contributing to shaping the next chapter of Australia’s engagement with China.

Generation Asia: Empowering the next generation of Asia-engaged leaders.

Key Events:

Executive Briefings

Exclusive member-only roundtables that provide intimate access to senior government officials, decision makers and experts from Australia and the region.

Asia Summit

High-profile events with visiting heads of state, ministers, senior officials, dignitaries and leading thinkers from the Indo-Pacific region and Australia.

Emerging Leaders Forum

A dedicated program stream for our Gen A network, featuring a series of masterclasses to inspire and guide young career professionals.

Melbourne Asia Game Changer Awards

Asia Society’s global expert network that tackles the major policy challenges confronting the Asia- Pacific in security, prosperity, and sustainability.

Asian-Australian Diaspora
Programs platforming Asia-Australian diaspora leaders to enhance Asian-Australian representation in Australia's national conversations around Asia, and as a pathway to strengthen relationships with the region.

Major Events and Initiatives

Generation Asia Young Leader's Forum

Taking place at the State Library of Victoria, this year's Young Leader's Forum will bring Asia Society Australia's Gen A network to Melbourne from around Australia. In addition to a focus on bolstering Asia literacy and harnessing an Asia-focused career, this year's Forum will also unpack the recommendations from last year's Gen A reports and explore actions for government and business.

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Asia Briefing Live

Asia Society Australia's annual executive forum that takes the pulse of the major developments in Asia and the state of Australia's engagement with the region. This year's Asia Briefing LIVE takes place in Melbourne and Sydney, with a focus on the economic, geopolitical and business trends impacting Asia, featuring international experts, senior dignitaries and business leaders.

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Melbourne Asia Game Changer Award Gala

The Australian incarnation of Asia Society's global Asia Game Changer Awards takes place once again in Melbourne, celebrating the individuals making a positive difference to Australia's relationship with Asia. This year's Awards will focus on Australia's relationship with Southeast Asia, culminating in a gala awards ceremony, featuring keynote speakers, entertainment and the awarding of this year's Game Changers.

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Projects

China Executive Briefing

The China Executive Briefing initiative is designed to provide factual, impartial, business and public-friendly information on the key areas of China's economic policy-making pertinent to Australia and is activated through three key mediums: micro-reports, executive briefing events and communication and dissemination platform. View our microsite here.

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Disruptive Asia

Disruptive Asia is a thought-leadership project by Asia Society Australia launched in 2017, presenting - through long-form essays - new perspectives and policy recommendations on how Asia's rise is impacting Australia's foreign policy, economy and society, and how Australia should respond. View our microsite here.

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Australia-Japan: Stepping up a Special Strategic Relationship in Asia

In partnership with Asia Society Japan, the Australia-Japan: Stepping up a Special Strategic Relationship in Asia project seeks to highlight opportunities for increased Australia-Japan cooperation in Asia with two major focuses: (1) trade and economic regionalism and connectivity: and (2) our geopolitical and security agendas in a more contested and competitive Southeast Asia.

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Past Events

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Survival Society: Made in Japan

22 Feb 2021
8 - 9 p.m.
Sydney Time
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Join Matt Alt, author of Pure Invention: How Japan’s Pop Culture Conquered the World, to hear his unique perspectives of Japanese pop culture and how it has influenced our pandemic lives. Streaming live from Tokyo.
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Briefing

Asia SOCIETY | China and Cultural Diplomacy through Art

12 Feb 2021
10 - 11 a.m.
Melbourne Time
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Join us for a multidisciplinary conversation on the value and agency of art and culture in both navigating or inflaming diplomatic tensions.
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Briefing

Gen A | Flashpoints: Southeast Asia and U.S.-China Competition

09 Feb 2021
10 - 11 a.m.
Melbourne Time
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Join us for our first Gen A program of the year as we explore where Southeast Asia sits amidst great power competition in 2021.
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Briefing

[WEBCAST] Executive Briefing | 2020 – A Year in Review

10 Dec 2020
9 - 9:45 a.m.
Melbourne Time
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From the challenges facing the Australian economy to the decoupling of the United States and China, join us as we wrap up the year and reflect on how 2020 has altered our regional realities.
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Briefing

[WEBCAST] Southeast Asia and Major Powers

01 Dec 2020
3 - 3:45 p.m.
Melbourne Time
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Join us for an interdisciplinary discussion on the geopolitics of the pandemic and Southeast Asian regionalism as part of our Southeast Asia and COVID-19 project.
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Briefing

[WEBCAST] Executive Briefing | Daniel H. Rosen, Rhodium Group on China’s Failed Economic Reform Agenda

12 Nov 2020
9:30 - 10:20 a.m.
Melbourne Time
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Asia Society Australia and the ANU Crawford Leadership Forum present this special Executive Briefing on China’s economic reform program.

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