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2012 Annual Report Contents 2012 ANNUAL REPORT CONTENTS REFLECTING ON 2012 2 From the Chairman and CEO PERTH USASIA CENTRE 4 A new frontier PEOPLE 5 Promoting excellence EDUCATION 9 Leading American Studies THINK TANK 15 Driving the debate RESEARCH 22 International scholarship ELECTION WATCH — SPECIAL FEATURE 25 Race for the White House MEDIA 28 Interpreting, analysing, informing AMERICAN REVIEW 30 Global perspectives, global reach THOUGHT LEADERSHIP 31 Community links FUTURE DIRECTIONS 33 2013 and beyond ABOUT US 34 FINANCIAL REPORT 39 PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS 41 REFLECTING ON 2012 FROM THE CHAIRMAN AND CEO The United States Studies Centre had a remarkable year in Hillary Rodham Clinton, we launched the Perth USAsia Centre. 2012, a dynamic combination of impact, growth, transition, A partnership between the US Studies Centre, the American and continuity. Australian Association (AAA), and the University of Western Australia (UWA), this is an important step in our continuing As Americans went to the polls, the Centre’s team was ready effort to be a national resource for all things American in to provide understanding and insight. From the early primaries Australia. Based at UWA with the support of the US Studies to election day, the Centre held numerous major events, kept Centre, the Perth USAsia Centre will become a leading the public and experts alike informed through our website and institution for teaching, training, research, and commentary social media channels, and provided analysis which appeared on the Australia-US-Asia strategic triangle. hundreds of times in Australian, American, and international media. Our innovative education programs also grew. At the undergraduate level, the Centre taught over 1,000 students Our Alliance 21 project — directly engaging the contributions across six courses, including in Rebecca Sheehan’s new of 50 Australian and American experts and officials — was course, Sex, Race and Rock in the USA, which debuted with also in high gear over the entire course of the year, holding 176 students. Meanwhile our Master of US Studies program eight conferences and workshops involving hundreds of attracted quality scholars interested in American politics and participants on both sides of the Pacific. This work is fostering society. The Centre increased its study abroad and internship new networks of collaboration across the key issues of programs to three, introducing the UCLA Study Abroad and Australia–US relations, improving bilateral understanding, LA Placement programs to complement the Washington DC and putting forward arguably the largest ever body of policy recommendations which mutually benefit both countries. Placement Program. Very strong demand from University of Sydney students ensured exceptionally high quality students 2012 was also a year of significant growth for the Centre. In in the program, further cementing our reputation for the best November, at a ceremony opened by US secretary of state integrated study abroad and internship programs in Australia. United States Studies Centre 2012 Annual Report 2 REFLECTING ON 2012 Amidst these achievements, we went through a critically years as we continue to expand and deepen this partnership. important transition with the handover from founding CEO In another vote of confidence, in 2012 the AAA endowment Geoffrey Garrett to the new CEO in October. That process, a in support of the US Studies Centre received $4 million from year in the planning, went smoothly thanks to the efforts of all the Australian Government which will help sustain the Centre’s involved — board directors, Centre management, and all our work over the longer term. staff — and especially thanks to chief operating officer Sean Gallagher. (More on the Centre’s future on page 33.) We have been fortunate in our first five years to benefit from the unstinting and enthusiastic support of so many, from National correspondent for The Atlantic James Fallows Australia and the US, across political, corporate, academic, stepped down as the Centre’s chair in US media in 2012. Jim’s media, and cultural communities, as well as a growing engagement with the Centre — as professor, advisor, writer, interest from university students and the general public. We and DC-based ambassador — has been of enormous benefit are especially grateful to the Centre’s board of directors who to us, and we thank him for his many contributions. He will remain as engaged and committed to our success as ever. We remain engaged with us on a number of projects and we look are grateful for this support, and with it we can look forward forward to continuing our work together. to continued success in the years ahead. But underpinning this exciting and successful year was a Sincerely, steadfast commitment to the founding goals of the Centre: to increase understanding of the US in Australia and become the leading institution outside America for the study of the US. We enjoyed some outstanding votes of confidence in 2012, Malcolm Binks signalling we are doing very well in meeting those aims. Chairman One came with the confirmation of a new five-year host agreement between the AAA and the University of Sydney. We are proud of the strong relationship between the Centre and the University and pleased with the many positive Bates Gill outcomes these ties provide. We look forward to our next five Chief Executive Officer FROM THE CHAIRMAN most grateful. Importantly, the review concluded that the US Studies Centre “has established an excellent As chairman of the board of the US Studies Centre, I could communications program and has a powerful media not be more pleased with the many positive achievements presence, and has become an important source of of the past year. We were especially happy to bring information within Australia on US issues. It has provided Bates Gill on board as the new CEO. With his extensive thought leadership on these issues in a balanced and international experience, strong global networks, especially considered way, and has contributed significantly to the in America, and institution-building know-how, the board understanding and advancement within Australia of the and I are confident Bates will lead the Centre to new Australia–US relationship.” heights in this next phase of our growth. The review’s positive assessment reinforces our view that I would also like to express appreciation to the Honourable we have achieved much of what we set out to do and we John Brumby, former premier of Victoria, and Victoria are on the right pathway for continued success. We will University professor Peter Sheehan, who undertook an be building on that success in the years ahead, and look independent review of the Centre in 2012. Commissioned forward to working with supporters and friends to make it by the AAA in accordance with its agreement with the happen. Australian Government, the extensive review offered a great deal of valuable advice for which we are Malcolm Binks United States Studies Centre 2012 Annual Report 3 PERTH USAsia CENTRE A NEW FRONTIER Launched in November by US secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Perth USAsia Centre at the University of Western Australia is an exciting new venture that will bring the US Studies Centre’s vision to the West. In November, US secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton “The Perth USAsia Centre is a significant investment in gave the keynote to launch the US Studies Centre’s exciting intellectual capital which stands to benefit all stakeholders well new venture, the Perth USAsia Centre at the University of into the 21st century,” said Gill. Western Australia. “The US Studies Centre is very pleased to launch this new A $10 million initiative between the Centre, the American initiative with the University of Western Australia, and we look Australian Association, and the University of Western forward to working with Australian and American colleagues Australia, with major funding from the Australian and Western to deepen understanding of the US in such areas as resource Australian governments, the Perth USAsia Centre will be policy, energy, the environment, politics, and foreign policy.” a leading policy think tank on the relationship between Australia, the US and Asia as well as a first-rate teaching and The new Centre aims to be a global research leader in the research centre. business of energy and sustainability, helping to maximise the long-term benefits of the resources boom while exploring an Clinton launched the Centre at a ceremony with the federal alternative energy future. It will also specialise in the study minister for tertiary education, skills, science, and research of the Australia–US–Asia strategic and economic triangle Senator Chris Evans, Western Australian premier Colin Barnett, and explore the parallels between Western Australia and the chancellor of the University of Western Australia Michael American west. Chaney, and US Studies Centre head Bates Gill. Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, as well as Gill said having Secretary Clinton launch the Perth USAsia programs to study and intern in the US, will give Western Centre demonstrated the high level of importance the Australian students the opportunity to gain an international US administration placed on the future of the region and perspective and critical understanding of American politics, Australia’s role in it. foreign policy, business, law, media, culture, and society. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton United States Studies Centre 2012 Annual Report 4 PEOPLE PROMOTING EXCELLENCE In 2012, the Centre hosted
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