Renaissance or Recalibration? Jane Hardy on the U.S.-Australia Alliance
This podcast was first published in Pacific Polarity.
Jane and colleague Jersey Lee discuss issues affecting the Australia-US Alliance as the Trump Administration began an unorthodox and disruptive era for its allies and partners.
For this episode, we spoke with Ambassador Jane Hardy, non-resident senior fellow at the United States Study Centre, University of Sydney, who served as ambassador to Spain, Australian Consul General in Honolulu, among other diplomatic postings. Ambassador Hardy discusses her diplomatic postings, in particular the work that goes into engaging with America, and comments on the state of the alliance in Trump 2.0. She reveals that, even though she only left the post of Consul General to Honolulu in June 2021, she had no prior knowledge of AUKUS, which was announced in September 2021.
