I am honoured to announce that I was the recipient of an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) on January 26th 2024 for my ongoing contribution to strengthening education links between Australia and ASEAN. In 1987 with colleague Philip Porter, I...

Latrobe Magnesium (ASX: LMG) has appointed Peter Church to its board as a non-executive director, and he will also assume the position and independent chair of its wholly-owned subsidiary Latrobe Magnesium Sarawak Sdn Bhd. The subsidiary is developing Latrobe’s 100,000 tonnes...

Michael Fay | February 8th 2023 Building ASEAN Australian Education Partnerships and Addressing Regional Priorities Introduction Australian government foreign policy is refocusing on Southeast Asia and particularly on our relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The challenge...

Lindley Edwards | March 31, 2015 Dialectic viewpoints are useful in complex issues like renewable energy and energy security, but rarely encouraged in the Australian public policy debate. Lindley Edwards supports so-called ‘skyhook’ ideas that bridge current realities and future possibilities....

Lindley Edwards | April 7, 2015 Dialectic viewpoints are useful in complex issues like renewable energy and energy security, but rarely encouraged in the Australian public policy debate. As part of GAP’s A Vision for Australia consultation, Lindley Edwards supports so-called...

Lindley Edwards | May 18, 2020 When I was first asked to write an article on optimism, it was pre COVID-19 lockdown and the world was a different place.  In present time it seems that Australia has managed to ‘flatten the...

The stock market is often held up as one of the indicators of the health and robustness of an economy and may be used as a comparison between various economies. The newer economies in Asia often attract comment, some of...

IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THE VIEWS EXPRESSED HERE ARE THOSE OF THE AUTHOR AND NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF AFG VENTURE GROUP Glen Robinson B.Sc.[Tech] JP Glen is a co-founder of Asean Focus Group P/L [now AFG Venture Group] which...

IEAA’s Excellence Awards recognise the outstanding contributions by individuals and teams to international education in Australia. They also provide a benchmark of excellence and best practice for the entire sector. Meet Thomson Ch’ng, the winner of the Tony Adams Rising Star Award.

August 19th, 2018 by Robert Bolton Australia does not rank in the top 10 destinations for Indonesian students wanting to learn English, a fact which has exposed how under-prepared Australia is for the expected deregulation of Indonesia’s education market. The director...

The PIE News Jun 1, 2018 Offshore branch campuses and in-country delivery will produce the most significant opportunities for providers to access more students, according to Michael Fay, director of the ASEAN Focus Group. But while there are opportunities, further work...

The ASEAN Australia Education Dialogue (AAED) Penang, Malaysia March 21st to 23rd 2018 In this our final newsletter for AAED 2018 we provide a profile of the delegates by country, document the Dialogue highlights and deliver a selection of the...

AFG Venture Group DispatchesCorporate advisory and consultancy in Australia, South East Asia and India.A 360 Degree Analysis of Asia's Recent Economic Development by John West John in his latest tome has cast a critical eye over the development parameters of...

February 26th, 2018 Michael Fay An edited version of this article appeared in the Australian Newspaper in the Higher Education section on Wednesday 21st February 2018. Australia’s tilt towards ASEAN will be boosted in March this year with the ASEAN...

STOCK MARKETS OF ASIA 2009 TO 2017 There have been comments that one of the reasons for the apparent reluctance of Australian corporates, funds and individuals to invest in Asia has been that the Asian stock markets are not sufficiently...

Myanmar Oral History Project From Peter Church’s years of involvement in Myanmar he has become aware of the increasing scarcity of the generation of Myanma citizens who were born before WW2 and have lived through the tumultuous years since that...