Description
The Asia-Australia Institute was established as a major development linking Australia and its Asian neighbours at the 4 June 1990 meeting of Council (resolution CL90/47). Dr Stephen Fitzgerald was later appointed to the position of Director of the Institute and commenced work on 3 September 1990 (Council papers, 17 September 1990). Initially the Director reported to the Institute's Management Committee, which was accountable to the Vice-Chancellor for the operational running of the Institute. (file 892709). From the beginning of July 1992, however, the Institute was restructured and the Director position was renamed Director-General, became more strategic and reported directly to the Vice-Chancellor. At the same time the new operational position of Executive Director was created, which was to report to the newly formed Executive Board (previously the Management Committee). This position was subsequently filled by Larry Strange in January 1993. A more strategic Advisory Council, which met annually, was also established for the Institute. At the 27 July 1993 meeting of the Executive Board, the Executive Director's position was renamed Director and the Director-General's position was renamed Chair. During its time in existence the Institute organised a number of programs, including the Asia Leaders' Forum (1993 - 2001), the Coolum Forum (1999 - 2002), the Australia in Asia Series (1997 - 2003), The Asia Lectures (1991- c.2002), the Australia-Indonesia Young Leaders' Dialogue (2002 - 2003), the Asia Skills Program (1992 - 2003), the Axiss APEC Future Economic Leaders Think-Tank (2001 - 2003), the Asia Young Leaders' Program (1993 - 1999), the Malaysia-Australia Dialogue (1995 - 2000) and the Gwinganna Forum (1995 - 1998) (Report to the Reference Group on the Future of the AAI, 5 June 2002, file 2002/3420). Following Professor Fitzgerald's retirement at the end of 2003, the Asia-Australia Institute was absorbed into the International Advancement Program within the Division of Institutional Advancement from 1 January 2004 and thus effectively ceased to exist (file 2003/0294). Subordinate agency: Executive Board / Management Committee / Executive Board of the Asia-Australia Institute - 05/04/1991 - 31/12/2003 Subordinate agency: Advisory Council of the Asia-Australia Institute - 15/07/1992 - 21/04/2001 Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 04/06/1990-31/12/2003