Dr Heather Smith argues that Australia’s place in a turbulent world is increasingly defined by geopolitical competition, rapid technological upheaval and the contested energy transition. She will explain how Australia needs to find a new balance in its response to these global shifts, with fresh attention to our longstanding partners and to those with whom we now share a common commitment to a strategic order that supports economic and political stability.
Dr Smith’s 2022 Sir James Plimsoll Lecture will examine Australia’s preparations for the challenges ahead and the need for a national conversation, highlighting the inter-generational stakes, that can set an effective Australian strategy for the disruptive, disorderly and dangerous decade ahead.
The annual Sir James Plimsoll Lecture is jointly presented by the University of Tasmania, the Australian Institute of International Affairs and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and is named in honour of Sir James Plimsoll, one of the most distinguished diplomats in the history of Australia’s Department of External Affairs (now Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade).
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