Developing Economic Ties between the USA and Australia

Developing  Economic Ties between the USA and Australia
US Ambassador Jeffrey L. Bleich

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Join us for breakfast on 12 April 2013 to enage with US Ambassador Jeffrey L Bleich, on the topic of American and Australian economic ties.

Jeffrey L. Bleich is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Australia.

Ambassador Bleich was nominated by President Obama, and confirmed unanimously by the Senate on November 10, 2009.  He presented his credentials to the Governor General of Australia Quentin Bryce on November 26, 2009, becoming the 24th American ambassador to the Commonwealth of Australia.

 Ambassador Bleich’s tenure in Australia has been marked by a commitment to expanding Australia and the United States’ broad alliance by promoting security, advancing free trade, promoting human rights, and expanding collaboration in education, space, energy, and technology.

Within four months of his arrival in Australia, Ambassador Bleich visited every one of Australia’s states and territories, and he has maintained an active schedule, engaging Australians across all sectors of the community and advancing common goals.  His efforts have included assisting victims of the 2011 Queensland floods, overseeing Australian-U.S. relief efforts to Japan, and working across a range of issues with Australia’s first minority coalition government since the 1940s.

On the issue of security, Ambassador Bleich has led U.S. efforts to advance defense cooperation between the United States and Australia.  These efforts include helping drive Senate ratification of the U.S.-Australia Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty, overseeing America’s largest joint training exercise (Talisman Sabre) off the coast of Australia, promoting delivery of upgraded military assets to Australia Defense Forces including C-17s, F-18 Super Hornets, and the MH60-Romeo, and helping to guide Australia’s participation in the U.S. global force posture review, resulting in new Marine joint-training exercises in Darwin and increased use of RAAF airfields in the Northern Territory by U.S. Air Force aircrafts on a rotational basis to support a more robust exercise and training program.  Ambassador Bleich has worked closely with combined U.S. and Australian forces throughout the region, including traveling with the Chief of the Australian Defense Forces, General David Hurley, to support our troops in Afghanistan.

Ambassador Bleich has also focused U.S.-Australian efforts in promoting free trade throughout the region.  These efforts include advancing U.S. and Australian joint participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.  Ambassador Bleich has also led key trade missions and hosted conferences to promote trade in a wide range of industries, including cleantech, biofuels, water-production, cloud-computing, laying trans-pacific cables, and promoting satellite technology – helping substantially increase bilateral investment and trade between the U.S. and Australia.  During Ambassador Bleich’s tenure, the Mission has exceeded all of its National Export Initiative (NEI) goals and was recognized in 2011 as one of the five leading NEI Missions in the world.

Ambassador Bleich has also been particularly focused on promoting scientific, environmental, and educational exchanges.   Ambassador Bleich signed, with the Minister for Science and Innovation, an historic extension of Australia’s and America’s 60-year partnership in space tracking and exploration that included the construction of new tracking dishes, and monitoring of the Mars Space Lab program.   Ambassador Bleich has championed an open internet while cracking down on cybercrime and piracy with new treaty agreements that he executed with in November 2011.  The Embassy has also worked to promote improvements in energy use and conservation under his leadership, earning recognition as one of the greenest U.S. missions in the world.  As Co-Chair (with the Prime Minister) of the Fulbright Scholarship Program, Ambassador Bleich has participated in the expansion of Fulbright Scholarships to the fields of Non-Profit Management and Defense Science and Technology.  In recognition of these and other efforts, Ambassador Bleich is the only U.S. Ambassador to have been invited to deliver both the John Curtin Memorial Lecture and the Robert Menzies Memorial Lecture, honoring two of Australia’s most celebrated Prime Ministers.

Finally, the Embassy has developed renewed focus on issues of human rights and humanitarian support during Ambassador Bleich’s tenure.  The Mission is now collaborating intensively to help Australia’s AusAID eliminate domestic violence in the Pacific Islands, and promote the advancement of women.  

 

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Date:
Friday, 12 April, 2013
Time:
7am (7.30 start ) - 9am sharp
Venue:
Grand Ballroom, Hyatt Regency, 99 Adelaide Terrace, Perth
Seat Price:
$120.00 ($110.00 for paid subscribers)
Tables (10):
$1 100.00
Contact:
Rosemary Tel: 9288 2100 E-mail: events@businessnews.com.au

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