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Australia Matters for America/America Matters for Australia
5 December 2011
Australia Matters for America/America Matters for Australia is a brochure and website providing up to date information, news and analysis on Australia-US connections. The project launched in Canberra today is a collaboration between the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and the East-West Center headquartered in Honolulu. Read more
Experts to give briefing on Obama visit
2 November 2011
The United States Studies Centre will provide a briefing to media representatives on the forthcoming visit to Australia by US President Barack Obama and other aspects of US-Australian relations. Geoffrey Garrett chief executive of the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, a distinguished political scientist and one of Australia’s leading commentators on the US will lead the briefing. Read more
September 11: Tenth Anniversary
31 August 2011
In the lead-up to the tenth anniversary of the tragic events of September 11 2001, the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney has the following experts available to provide commentary regarding the attacks, the subsequent decade and future ramifications: Read more
Immigration policy summit
19 July 2011
Immigration policy is the focus of a high level international conference this week being co-hosted by the University of Sydney's United States Studies Centre and Sydney Law School in association with Harvard University.
The summit will bring together leading scholars and policy makers from the US, Australia and Europe who will be examining the politics of asylum and detention, the process of immigration selection and to manage anti-immigration sentiment. Read more
A dialogue with Thomas Friedman on America and the world
8 June 2011
MEDIA RELEASE
Thomas Friedman is one of the world's most influential public intellectuals. He has long been an outspoken commentator on global affairs with a unique ability to focus on the social, economic and political trends that are shaping our world.
The United States Studies Centre and the Sydney Opera House are proud to offer Australians a rare opportunity to hear first hand Friedman's latest thinking on the forces driving global change and the challenges facing America. Read More
War on Terror Fatigue: US and Australian attitudes 10 years after 9/11
3 June 2011
Many Americans and Australians think the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have not been worth the cost and are not helping to win the war on terrorism, according to new research by the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. Almost a decade after the September 11 attacks, the US Studies Centre has conducted a major survey of Australian and American attitudes towards security and the war on terror. Read More
2011 National Summit: The 9/11 Decade
19 May 2011
Positioned between the death of Osama bin Laden and the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks, the 2011 National Summit of the United States Studies Centre will cast a forensic eye on the 9/11 Decade.
Government decision-makers thought leaders, academic experts and prominent journalists from Australia and around the world will examine the decade’s upheavals at Sydney’s Four Seasons Hotel on June 6-7. Read more
United States media fellowship awarded to ABC journalist
11 April 2011
The United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney has awarded its inaugural media fellowship, in partnership with the World Press Institute, to ABC journalist Siobhan Heanue.
Heanue was selected from a strong field of early career Australian journalists to travel to the United States in August this year, where she will join nine other international World Press Fellows for two months of immersion in US politics, business, culture and media. Read more
Geoffrey Garrett appointed as new Dean of University of Sydney Business School
31 March 2011
Current CEO of the US Studies Centre Professor Geoffrey Garrett has been appointed as the next Dean of the University of Sydney Business School. He will take up the Deanship on 1 April 2012 following the completion of his term as CEO of the US Studies Centre.
"Professor Garrett is a scholar of international renown and I am delighted he has accepted this position as the University of Sydney Business School enters a crucial stage in its development," said the University's Vice-Chancellor Dr Michael Spence. Read More
US Studies Centre appoints top diplomat to Board
11 March 2011
The US Studies Centre is pleased to announce the appointment of Dennis Richardson AO, Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), to its Board of Directors. Announcing the appointment, US Studies Centre Board Chairman Malcolm Binks AO said Mr Richardson would bring invaluable expertise in Australia-US relations to the Centre. Read More
VIDEOS & INTERVIEWS
Geoffrey Garrett says that Mitt Romney's greatest weakness is that many Americans see him as representing Wall Street: a place loathed even more at the moment than Capitol Hill.
Brendon O'Connor comments on the results of the South Carolina primary and looks ahead to Florida.
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