Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Tuesday 17 June
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
On 16th May the results of India’s national election were declared and a new government, led by controversial BJP leader Narendra Modi, was elected with an overwhelming majority. Meanwhile, front-runners are emerging for the Indonesian presidential election to be held on 9 July.
Both elections will bring significant shifts in policy and potential power in the region. What will this mean for Australia and its relationships in South and South East Asia? What are the ambitions and challenges for these rapidly changing nations? And how are their relationships with the Coalition government, nine months into its first term?
Sally Warhaft is joined by Professor Tim Lindsey, director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, Dr Pradeep Taneja a fellow of the Australia India Institute at the University of Melbourne and Hamish McDonald, author of Demokrasi, for an enlightening discussion on new governments in the region and what it means for Australia.
Featuring
Hamish McDonald
Hamish McDonald has been a foreign correspondent in Jakarta, Tokyo, Hong Kong, New Delhi and Beijing. He was the Asia-Pacific editor of the Sydney Morning Herald and has twice won Walkley Awards.
After he authored one of the classic texts on Indonesia, Suharto’s Indonesia (1980), their government refused him a visa for the next decade. Demokrasi is his latest book on this fascinating country.
He was made an inaugural fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs in 2008. Based at the Australian National University, he is the world editor for the Saturday Paper.
Pradeep Taneja
Dr Pradeep Taneja is a fellow of the Australia India Institute at the University of Melbourne, where he also lectures in Asian politics, political economy and international relations in the School of Social and Political Sciences. His current research interests include Sino-Indian relations, the rise of China and India as regional and global powers and government-business relations in Asia.
He was director of International Programs in the Graduate School of Management at La Trobe University. He has also held senior academic positions at a number of other universities in Australia and Asia.
He is frequently interviewed by Australian and Asian media on current events. In addition to numerous academic publications, he regularly publishes opinion pieces in major newspapers and websites. Dr Taneja earned his PhD from Griffith University, Brisbane, and MA from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Sally Warhaft
Sally Warhaft is a Melbourne broadcaster, anthropologist and writer. She is the host of The Fifth Estate, the Wheeler Centre’s live series focusing on journalism, politics, media, and international relations, and The Leap Year ...
Tim Lindsey
Tim Lindsey is Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society at the University of Melbourne. He is also chair of DFAT’s Australia Indonesia Institute and was a member of the Reference Group for the former National Asian Languages and Studies in Schools Program.
Tim holds the degrees of BA (Hons), LLB, BLitt (Hons) and PhD from the University of Melbourne. In 2006, he was awarded a five-year Federation Fellowship to research “Islam and Modernity: Syari'ah, Terrorism and Governance in South-East Asia".
Tim’s publications include Indonesia: Law and Society, Corruption in Asia, Chinese Indonesians and Law Reform in Developing and Transitional States. This year he will publish Islam, Law and the State in Southeast Asia and The Indonesian Constitution (with Simon Butt). Tim is also a founding editor of The Australian Journal of Asian Law.
Tim consults regularly with Indonesian and Australian government agencies and international aid organisations and maintains a practice as a barrister specialising in disputes involving Indonesian law. He has traveled regularly to Indonesia since 1976 and worked closely with Indonesian judges, police, prosecutors and lawyers. Tim speaks fluent Bahasa Indonesia.