Prime Minister Yingluck in Canberra

Nicholas Farrelly - 27 May, 2012

The flags are up on Kings Avenue.

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is being welcomed to Canberra to mark the 60th anniversary of Australia-Thailand diplomatic relations. Comments from New Mandala readers on this auspicious milestone are very welcome.

For those in the mood for some reading, you may find this April 2012 commentary on Thailand-Australia relations is still relevant. And there will be sure to be plenty of other anecdote and analysis in the days to come.

Update (Monday, 28 May 2012): I was up at Parliament House this morning to commentate on Prime Minister Yingluck’s visit for Sky News. Hearing the Australian military band strike up the Thai national anthem was memorable. It was a beautiful morning for it.

About the Author
Nicholas Farrelly
Dr Nicholas Farrelly is the co-founder of New Mandala. A graduate of the Australian National University and the University of Oxford, over the past 20 years he has undertaken research in Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh, China and India. Nicholas is Head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania and formerly the Associate Dean of the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University, where he also led the ANU Myanmar Research Centre from 2015 to 2017.
New Mandala is supported by the Australian National University (ANU), a world-leading centre of research and teaching on Southeast Asia that has hosted the site since its founding in 2006. New Mandala's editors make editorial decisions independently of the ANU, and the views expressed at New Mandala are solely those of contributors and do not represent the institutional position(s) of the ANU or any of its constituent parts.
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