Australia's two-party system is undergoing some significant changes in the recent years. What are those changes? What kind of challenges do the independent third parties pose on the system? What do they all mean for the Australian politics and our understandings of political parties? Professor Rodney Smith will place the current state of Australian party politics into historical perspective, and offer some thoughts on the strategies the major parties have adopted and prospects for the party system's evolution.

Professor Smith is Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at University of Tokyo's CPAS (2023-2024) and Professor of Australian Politics, Discipline of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. 

Professor Kensuke Takayasu of Waseda University will give comments on the talk before we open the session to the floor for Q&A.

Event date and time: 13:00-15:00JST, Monday, March 25th, 2024
Venue: Collaboration Room #3, 4th floor, Building #18, Komaba I Campus, the University of Tokyo [3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo , 153-8902]
Direction to the campus can be found at https://www.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng_site/info/about/visitors/maps-directions/

The event will be held in a hybrid format. If you want to attend in person, there is no need of registration.