Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University

Visiting Fellow, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories Email: Alison.Broinowski@anu.edu.au Phone: + 61 2 9327 8281 Fax: + 61 2 9327 8281 Mobile: 0421 172 940

Dr Alison Broinowski

Alison Broinowski, BA (Adelaide), PhD (ANU) received her doctorate for a study of representations of Australia in ten Asian countries. Formerly an Australian diplomat, she has worked for over twenty years on mutual images of Australia and Asian countries, as reflected in public discourse, in literature, and in the arts. In recent years she has turned to analysis of Australian foreign policy in Asia and at the United Nations.

Her Asia/Australia monographs include The Yellow Lady: Australian Impressions of Asia (OUP 1992, 1996), and About Face: Asian Accounts of Australia (Scribe 2003). She was the editor of Understanding ASEAN (Macmillan 1982), Australia, Asia, and the Media (Griffith University 1982), ASEAN into the 1990s (Macmillan 1990), and Double Vision: Asian Accounts of Australia (Pandanus 2004). In 1999-2002 she was editor of ‘Asian Analysis’ for the ASEAN Focus group.

In 2005, Alison wrote, with James Wilkinson, The Third Try: Can the UN Work? (Scribe 2005), a digital revision of which is to appear in the United States in 2007.

Alison’s critiques of Australian foreign policy include Howard’s War (Scribe 2003), and Allied and Addicted (Scribe 2007). She is a contributor to Australian Book Review and New Matilda.