New South Wales

The American Election and Trump: The Implications

Date

From: Wednesday November 2, 2016, 12:30 pm

To: Wednesday November 2, 2016, 2:00 pm

Former New South Wales Premier and Foreign Minister Bob Carr surveys the US political scene and its implications for Australia. What sort of a President would Hillary Clinton make? Can we guess at the foreign policy of Donald Trump? What does it mean for Australia?

Details:

  • Time: 12.30 - 2.00 pm
  • Venue: Strangers' Dining Room, Parliament House, 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney
  • Cost: $155 members, $185 non-members, $1400 tables (of 8 guests each)
  • Lunch includes two courses and  beverages

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Enquiries:

info@abe.org.au or call 0419 256 339

About the Speaker:

Professor the Hon Bob Carr

Former Foreign Minister Bob Carr is also the longest continuously serving Premier in New South Wales history. He served as Minister for Planning and Environment 1984 to 1988 and as Leader of the Opposition from 1988 until his election as Premier in March 1995. He was re-elected in 1999 and 2003 securing an historic third four-year term. He retired from state politics in 2005.

Bob Carr has received the Fulbright Distinguished Fellow Award Scholarship. He has served as Honorary Scholar of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue. He is the author of Thoughtlines (2002), What Australia Means to Me (2003), My Reading Life (2008) and Diary of a Foreign Minister (2014).

In March 2012 he was designated by Prime Minister Julia Gillard as Australia’s Foreign Minister, elected to the Australian Senate to fill a casual Senate vacancy and sworn in to the Senate and Cabinet on March 13, 2012.

As Foreign Minister, Bob Carr fostered stronger relations between Australia and Southeast Asia, lifted sanctions on Myanmar, campaigned for the passage of a global Arms Trade Treaty and led the final stages of Australia’s successful bid for Australia’s seat on the UN Security Council as a non-permanent member. His plan for a Syrian medical pact was backed at the G20. He assisted Prime Minister Gillard in achieving a strategic partnership with China.

Following his resignation from the Senate on October 24, 2013, the University of Technology, Sydney appointed him to lead the Australia-China Relations Institute – a think tank dedicated to Australia-China relations. 
 

 

Venue

Strangers Dining Room, Parliament House

6 Macquarie Street, SYDNEY NSW 2000


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