About the Event

The 2020 US Election will be the biggest event of the year and it’s shaping up to be one of the most contested campaigns in history.

The contest between former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders could be settled on “Super Tuesday”, or billionaire Michael Bloomberg could throw the whole thing into disarray with a strong showing.

The US is Austraila’s largest investor, and international trade and investment are sure to be impacted if there is a change in the presidency.

Will Trump be elected for four more years, or will a Democrat led Administration with a very different agenda take America in a totally new direction?

How will the US election affect Australian business?

Hear everything that you need to know about the candidates and the policy agendas, to prepare your business for a renewed Trump presidency, or a change to a very different Democrat government.

This will be a discussion you cannot miss if your business has links to the United States.

Professor the Hon Bob Carr is the longest continuously serving Premier in the history of New South Wales.  Bob entered the Senate in 2012 and served as Australia’s Foreign Minister for 18 months.  Since leaving politics Bob has led a distinguished career as a defacto diplomat, author and academic.  Bob received the Fulbright Distinguished Fellow Award Scholarship.  He has served as Honorary Scholar of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue. He is the author of: My Reading Life (2008), Thoughtlines (2002) and Diary of a Foreign Minister (2014) and his political memoir Run for Your Life (2018). For five years he was the Director of the Australia-China Relations Institute at UTS and in May 2019 he was appointed Professor of Industry in Climate and Business at UTS.   

Janine Perrett
Journalist, Commentator and former foreign correspondent to the US

Janine Perrett is a senior journalist and commentator who appears across the Australian media landscape from television and radio to newspapers and online. She began her journalism career at The Australian newspaper in 1979 and during the 1980’s worked in London and New York as a foreign correspondent for that paper. During the 1990’s she worked as a television reporter for the Nine Network on the Sunday and Business Sunday programs. She also founded The Small Business Show and was presenter of that program for its nine year run. Since leaving Nine she has worked as a guest presenter on ABC radio and a columnist for News Ltd and the Sydney Morning Herald. In 2007 she was awarded a Knight fellowship to Stanford University where she studied for a year. From 2010 to 2019 she was  a presenter on Sky News TV hosting her own programs including The Perrett Report, The Friday Show and Saturday and Sunday Live as well as a regular panelist on The Last Word and Paul Murray Live. She most recently co-hosted the Money News show on 2GB and 3AW.

Tom Switzer 
Executive Director for the Centre for Independent Studies  

Tom Switzer is executive director of the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney, a public-policy research organisation. He is also a presenter at the ABC’s Radio National and a columnist with the Sydney Morning Herald. A former editor of The Australian and Australian Financial Review, he has written for the Wall Street Journal and The Spectator in the UK .