Under Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, the Federal Government released the 2017 Foreign Policy White Paper. It touted the nation’s soft-power strengths and capabilities for greater opportunities abroad, defining soft power ‘as the ability to influence the behaviour and thinking of others through the power of attraction and ideas.’
In the three years that have passed, Asialink Arts has recognised that the conversation has largely stagnated at the top level, and that the opportunity for soft power is one that could, alternatively, sit at the centre of reshaping and strengthening future policy for the arts and culture sector.
