While US-Australia relations are strong, there is a significant gap between the public and current alliance managers. The community focussed on studying, managing, and exploring future opportunities in the US-Australia alliance is concentrated in Canberra. There is a need to broaden the base of support and geographic distribution of alliance managers beyond the Canberra-Sydney corridor and foster the next generation of leaders who have a stake in US-Australia relations.
Griffith Asia Institute partnered with Perth USAsia Centre (University of Western Australia) to deliver the first 3 day workshop in South Bank from 5-7 June 2019.
The goals of the Australia-US Alliance Young Leaders Dialogue program are to:
- equip the next generation of alliance managers with the knowledge and networks
needed to manage US-Australia relations in the Indo-Pacific era - increase and diversify the number of young professionals with a career interest in
the future of the US-Australia Alliance, - broaden the geographic distribution of the next generation of alliance managers to
encompass perspectives from different regions of Australia.
