Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Tuesday 28 October
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
As Australian hornets strike Islamic State targets over Iraq and our special forces remain on standby to once again enter conflict in the Middle East, questions arise about Australia’s defence and foreign policy priorities. Should we be focusing our intelligence and defence resources on global alliances or our own region? How binding is the ANZUS treaty and Australia’s obligations to United States foreign policy objectives? And what has changed within our borders with the rise of homegrown fundamentalists connected to a stateless, criminal terror network with no regard for human life?
Sally Warhaft is joined by James Brown, former Australian Army officer, now Military Fellow at the Lowy Institute, and Greg Barton (director, international, of the Global Terrorism Research Centre and co-editor of the journal Islam and Christian Muslim Relations). These distinguished insiders will lend their experience and insight in a special Fifth Estate on Australia’s defence policy in the age of ISIS.
Featuring
Greg Barton
Greg Barton is the Herb Feith Research Professor for the Study of Indonesia in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University, based in the Politics program in the School of Political and Social Inquiry.
He is the director, international, of the Global Terrorism Research Centre (GTReC), Director of the Centre for Islam and the Modern World (CIMOW), Deputy UNESCO Chair in Interreligious and Intercultural Relations – Asia Pacific, and Deputy Head of the school of Political and Social Inquiry (International). In 2011 he became the co-editor of the journal Islam and Christian Muslim Relations.
James Brown
James Brown is the author of ANZAC’s Long Shadow: the cost of our national obsession.
A former Australian Army officer, he commanded a cavalry troop in Southern Iraq, served in Australia’s Baghdad headquarters, and was attached to Special Forces in Afghanistan. Today he is the Military Fellow at the Lowy Institute, where he works on military issues and defence policy.
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 ...