Tagged with Energy security

Griffith Asia Institute Featured Publication Purchase the book from Ashgate press For a country already uneasy about energy security, the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which caused a nuclear catastrophe at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, turned pre-existing Japanese concern about the availability of energy into outright anxiety. The subsequent closure of many nuclear reactors meant […]

The Japan Times publishes a story by Eric Johnston who recently attended the Australia-Japan Dialogue in Brisbane hosted by the Griffith Asia Institute. Mr Johnston comments on the discussions held at the Dialogue. Read the article here.

Professor Tatsujiro Suzuki, Vice Chairman of Japan’s Atomic Energy Commission, talks to ABC Radio National about the Fukushima nuclear plant. Professor Suzuki was in Brisbane attending the Griffith Asia Institute’s annual Australia-Japan Dialogue. The 2013 Dialogue was on the topic of Energy Security and was supported by the Australian Government through the Australia-Japan Foundation of […]

The 2013 Annual Leader’s Lecture was presented on July 3rd at GOMA. It featured the Honorable Mark McArdle, Queensland Minister for Energy and Water Supply as the key note speaker. Mr McArdle spoke candidly about the supply of energy from Queensland to China from both a political and economic view point. He notes “our economies […]