Women in International Security Australia (WIISA) presents:
Dr Alison Broinowski
Visiting Fellow, Australian National University and University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr Alison Broinowski will invoke a lively discussion on the UN, corruption and Australia. Alison will discuss the UN Convention Against Corruption which was adopted in 2003 by the General Assembly and entered into force in 2005. Alison’s talk will address the obligation of UN members to cooperate to fight corruption in all its aspects, including prevention, investigation, and prosecution of offenders. She will also explore Australia’s apparent breach of the Convention Against Corruption in the wake of the AWB scandal and the impact this has had on UN reform, our own influence and reputation in the world body.
6.30-7.30pm
Thursday 25th May 2006
The Woodstock Room, Gilbert + Tobin
2 Park St, Citigroup Building, Level 37
Cost: Current WIISA Members Free, Visitors $20, Students $5
Dr Alison Broinowski is a former Australian diplomat. Alison has written or edited nine books on aspects of the interface between Australia and Asia. She is a member of the Australian Republican Movement, the Asian Studies Association, and the International Advisory Council of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research. She is a Council member of Sydney PEN International and of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (NSW).
Her best known books are The Yellow Lady – Australian Impressions of Asia (OUP 1992 and 1996) and About Face: Asian Accounts of Australia (Scribe 2003). Her latest book, co-written with James Wilkinson about the United Nations, is The Third Try: Can the UN Work? (Scribe Publications, 2005).
Alison is a graduate in Arts from the University of Adelaide, and her PhD in Asian Studies is from ANU. She has lived in Japan, Burma, Iran, South Korea, and Mexico, and worked as a diplomat in Japan, the Philippines, Jordan, and New York (UN). A frequent speaker and broadcaster, she was a co-signatory with the ’43 Immortals’, Australian former defence chiefs, heads of Commonwealth government departments, and senior diplomats, of a public statement calling for truth in government in 2003.
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