Australia and Europe in Conversation – number 4: 50 years of EU-Australia relations
Lecture
50 years ago, in March 1962, Sir Edwin McCarthy took up his position as the first Australian Ambassador to the EU. Since then EU-Australia relations have had their ups and downs but today the relationship is broader, deeper and stronger than ever - but many challenges lie ahead. Every…
Biofuels: Policies on Price and Food Crisis in EU and in a Comparative Perspective
Seminar
This public lecture is now available as MP3 (please listen to the file below in three parts). Throughout millennia, agriculture provided most of the fuel for vehicular transportation. The discovery of the internal combustion engine and the use of oil derivatives for vehicular fuel, led to an…
2012 Schuman Lecture: New Alliances: Australia and Europe in a G20 World
Conference
See the briefing paper of the text of the Robert Schuman lecture, given by Mr Alastair Walton on 23 May 2012 at the Australian National University. In an increasingly globalised world, Australia’s long term prosperity relies on its ability to maintain a highly productive, flexible and open economy…
Europe and the Pacific: Past, Present and Future
Seminar
This public lecture is now available as MP3 (please listen to the file below in two parts). Europe has a long and continuing history with the Pacific. You are invited to a panel discussion on political and social change in the Pacific. How is Europe navigating its way in the new Pacific? What is…
Diversity as an Obstacle for Integration? The Development of Transnational Dyadic Trust in the European Union 1954 - 2004
Seminar
This public lecture is now available as MP3 (please listen to the file above in three parts) and the PowerPoint slides as a PDF file (as a courtesy to the presenter, please contact him for permission to refer to his PowerPoint notes for the purpose of further research). How does a political…
Celebrate Europe Day
Seminar
This public lecture is now available as MP3 (please listen to the file below in three parts). The first move towards the creation of what is now known as the European Union occurred on the 9th of May 1950. In Paris that day, against the background of the threat of a Third World War engulfing…
The Politics of the Past: Great War Commemoration in International Perspective
Symposium
Anzac Day, 25 April, has grown to be a remarkable cultural and political phenomenon in the past two decades. No discussion of Australian national identity today can avoid the memory of Australia’s fighting forces. The increasing popularity of Anzac Day and the intensification in its promotion by…