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Blue Ribbon Panel Report launch

Lowy Institute for International Policy

Summary

The Lowy Institute Blue Ribbon Panel Report, 'Australia’s diplomatic deficit: reinvesting in our instruments of international policy', is the first major public review of Australia’s diplomatic network in over 20 years. Here, members of the Panel speak at the launch of the report on Wednesday 18 March 2009.

The Panel: Jillian Broadbent AO, Professor William Maley AM, Brad Orgill, Professor Peter Shergold AC, Ric Smith AO PSM and Allan Gyngell (Chairman).

Panel members can be heard here:
Australia's diplomatic deficit - MP3 (18MB)

The speaker support is available here:
Australia's diplomatic deficit - PPT (7MB)

Video of the launch is also available.
Videos from past events are now available in the Video Library.

Australia's diplomatic deficit: reinvesting in our instruments of international policy (Part 1)

Part 2 of this presentation along with other selected videos, is available from our Video Library.

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