The Brisbane Dialogues

The Brisbane Dialogues is an independent, neutral, intergenerational, volunteer-based, pro bono project to stimulate genuine dialogue. Beyond debate.

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Check out the evolving program of public dialogues between experts who disagree on ideas and big issues, produced by diverse organisations with Australian Dialogues’ support.

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Dr Mark Harrison says many questions remain were we to abandon Taiwan.

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Hugh White thinks there isn't much Australia can do to stop China taking Taiwan, but that we can navigate profitably between China and India as the latter (as well as Indonesia) rises.

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Join the convo already, whether you can come to the “Big Dialogue: Should Australia Fight For Taiwan?” at Ormond College, The University of Melbourne tonight or not!

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Tickets from $25 including dinner and drinks ($0 for Ormond students). Last chance to secure your place!

A Big Dialogue: Should Australia Fight For Taiwan?
5:45 pm for 6 pm, Wed 15 Apr 2026, Ormond College Dining Hall
https://t.co/caciBmhzFy

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Tomorrow night at Ormond College. One of the most important strategic questions Australia faces gets the serious, civil conversation it deserves — in one of Melbourne's great collegiate settings.

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Only two days out. Ormond College and Australian Dialogues are bringing together people who see Australia's role in the Indo-Pacific very differently — not to argue past each other, but to explore differences and also possible common ground, seeing where that might lead.

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Engaging seriously with the defence of Taiwan means understanding Taiwan's politics, its society, and its position in a rapidly shifting regional order — not just the military geometry.

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From (free) abstract of panellist Hugh White’s (paywalled) article ‘Reality Check: Taiwan Cannot Be Defended’ (Australian Foreign Affairs magazine, Feb 2022)

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Few thinkers have asked harder questions about Australia's strategic future. Hugh White AO FASSA, Emeritus Professor of Strategic Studies at the Australian National University, has produced one of the most sustained and searching bodies of work in Australian international...

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Two weeks to go! Taiwan's defence is an issue Australia has to grapple with at many levels.

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Any serious examination of Taiwan's defence must engage with how people in Taiwan itself view the issue. Dr Alice Yang, Assistant Research Fellow of the Institute for National Defense and Security Research in Taipei (@INDSRTW), brings to this Big Dialogue a...

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The Big Dialogue on the defence of Taiwan at Ormond College will be moderated by the Master and Head of the College, Dr Areti Metuamate, also a distinguished political scientist in his own right, with a focus on Pacific affairs.

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The defence of Taiwan is one of the most consequential strategic questions facing Australia in a generation. What obligations do our alliances create? What choices might we face as tensions across the Indo-Pacific sharpen?

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Fear and sadness about the Bondi massacre turns to determination to double down on the Dialogues’ goal to “get the tribes talking” in the face of deepening divides in Australian society.

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@timminchin, @BillShorten_, @MStutch
@FSUofAustralia, @aus4science, @SwayBeta

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See our year’s work reduced to a couple of minutes - all the Big Dialogues and a dozen other events, with many credits and much gratitude to all who contributed to the CD cause (civil discourse or constructive discussion - you choose).

https://t.co/oP5qnL44sI

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#dialogue #constructivediscussion #civildiscourse #polarisation #toxicdiscourse

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China-Australia economic analyst James Laurenceson introduces his enthusiasm for the subject.

Watch this space for more highlights of this vital discussion with three very different perspectives

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