Good afternoon,

All the noises coming out of Westminster indicate that the Department for International Trade will soon unveil the first bespoke free trade agreement that the United Kingdom has been able to make since it left the EU last year — and the frontrunner is Australia.

Our two nations could scarcely be further apart but could barely be more closely linked with over 56% of Australians claiming at least some ancestry from the British Isles. Together ours is a history of a global alliance unbroken, our countries dedicated to upholding the rule of law and liberty. We will share the burden and reward of future challenges too.

The relationship between the UK and our antipodean cousins has never been more important, register here and join our expert panel TONIGHT 6PM UK TIME to discuss.

The Future of UK-Australia relations
Tuesday, 4th May at 6pm BST

Britain and Australia are a world away but there are arguably fewer nations closer in attitude, shared history and familial ties. Nor two more suited to working more closely together in future.

After the UK left Australia to join the EEC, opportunities for trade became more expensive through tariff and non-tariff barriers, the UK foreign office prioritised Europe ahead of other arenas, and recent increases in costs to migrate have hit the human links between the two countries.

But an independent trade policy post-Brexit, Australia likely to be the first country to sign a brand new deal with Britain, the economic rise of the Asia-Pacific region, and the risks to both peoples' of an aggresive People's Republic of China.

In this webinar, we will look at some of the biggest and most likely areas of cooperation, likely fractious issues, people to people links and the creative industry so often forgotten in talk about trade, and what we can expect of freer movement while Australia continues to bar even her own societies from returning home in this pandemic.

For this special webinar the discussion will be joined by:

Matt Kilcoyne — Deputy Director of the Adam Smith Institute

Matthew Lesh — Head of Research at the Adam Smith Institute, he is also an Adjunct Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs in Australia and is author of the book Democracy in a Divided Australia.

Latika Bourke — Australian author and journalist based in London. She writes for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and in the past has worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and 2UE. Her book From India with Love was published in 2015.

Matthew James Willis — Actor & Singer, Ex-Opera Australia now living in London who applied for Indefinite Leave to Remain from May 2021.

Jeremy Hutton — Communications Manager at the Council on Geostrategy. Previously, he was a Policy Analyst at the Taxpayers’ Alliance, where he undertook research into British foreign policy.
 

Details:

Date: Tuesday, 4th May 2021
Time: 6:00pm - 7:00pm 

The webinar will begin at 6.00pm, with an audience Q&A session taking place at approximately 6:45pm. The webinar will conclude at 7:00pm.