1. The White Paper on Australia and the Asian Century Peter Drysdale Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU Australian Parliamentary Library, Key Issues Seminar, Canberra, 16 August 2012

2. 2 what’s going on in Asia is big; the scale and speed of change Asia’s century is here: income and trade share; middle class; rates of growth; impact on the world impact on Australia, the region and the world Importance of geography and distance regional and global impact nature of the task Welcome the Asian Century

3. Prime Minister’s announcement set context Task Force and Advisory Committee scale of the task; national consultations participation and interest submissions and press government white paper; but exceptional character attending to the opportunities and the risks attending to shifts in economic and political power Re-Thinking National Strategies

4. 4 What Broad Priorities? what needs to be done at home economic and social policy settings: scale of impact on Australia international initiatives: global setting of Asia’s growth Asia in the G20; regional arrangements; and bilateral partnerships; and shared security national assets and capabilities in business, education and the public sectors: (30 per cent overseas born; 10 per cent Asian born);

5. Lessons So Far stakeholder and community response recognition of the importance and ambition of the White Paper study beginning of a national conversation White Paper cannot pretend to all the solutions now setting policy directions for the future engaging business and community leaders in policy development beyond government: a shared task in changing mindsets and priorities 5