Institute of Advanced Studies

The Obama Administration: What Might it Mean for Australia?

A Free Public Forum

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, one of America’s leading institutes for advanced study, was pleased to honour two of Australia’s most distinguished citizens, Kim Beazley and Janet Holmes à Court, as recipients of the prestigious Woodrow Wilson Award, in recognition of their many years of dedicated public service and corporate citizenship.

In conjunction with these Awards, the Wilson Center, in partnership with the University of Western Australia, hosted a public forum on the morning of March 10, 2009, to ask:
The Obama Administration: What Might It Mean for Australia? 

Panellists included:

Kim Beazley, Professorial Fellow at The University of Western Australia and Chancellor of the Australian National University

Robert M. Hathaway, Director, Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC

Brendon O’Connor, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney

Greg Sheridan, Foreign Affairs Editor, The Australian.

This event was sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and The Australian American Leadership Dialogue.


Tuesday, 10 March 2009