The Australian Government released the 'Australia in the Asian Century White Paper' in October and you would have received much information summarising its contents.

Now that the dust has settled, Norton Rose has taken the time to dig deeper into the issues in our publication 'From Rhetoric to Reality - Norton Rose's Critical Analysis of the Asian Century White Paper', where we respond to the early observations from industry and media by highlighting missed opportunities and ideas on how the White Paper's objectives may be achieved, such as:

  • What can the Australian Government and the Australian business community do about Foreign Direct Investment?
  • Australia's challenge to meet the environmental sustainability objective
  • The absence of industrial relations reforms
  • Bottlenecks in Australia's transport infrastructure and the missed opportunity to discuss high speed rail solutions
  • How will Australia manage security risks to achieve trust in Defence policy in the region?

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