Fw: Asia Research Centre Public Seminar, Senate Room, Thursday 21 April from 1.30pm to 3.00pm (Treat as In Confidence) [DLM=Sensitive]

[Jordan Sugunasingam]

Hi All

See below.

Can you please circulate.

Jordan 
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From:        Greg Lopez <G.L...@murdoch.edu.au>
To:        "Jordan.Su...@asic.gov.au" <Jordan.Su...@asic.gov.au>,
Date:        13/04/2016 02:21 PM
Subject:        Fwd: Asia Research Centre Public Seminar, Senate Room, Thursday 21 April from 1.30pm to 3.00pm

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Circulate widely

Greg Lopez

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From: Sia Kozlowski <S.Koz...@murdoch.edu.au>
Date: 12 April 2016 at 6:13:20 AM GMT+1
Subject: Asia Research Centre Public Seminar, Senate Room, Thursday 21 April from 1.30pm to 3.00pm

An Asia Research Centre Public Seminar
“Najib Razak’s Resilience and Malaysia’s Collective Action Problems”
Dr Wong Chin Huat
Fellow and Head, Political and Social Analysis Section, Penang Institute, Malaysia
Thursday 21 April  2016
Senate Room, Murdoch University
1.30pm to 3.00pm
 
 

Abstract Malaysia’s sixth Prime Minister, Najib Razak, retains power despite the ruling coalition losing the majority of votes in the 2013 poll and a growing scandal over state investment firm, 1MDB. Meanwhile, a “Save Malaysia” coalition consisting of rebels from the lead ruling party UMNO, opposition leaders and civil society activists led by ex-Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad gathers momentum. Najib’s resilience thus far reflects two collective action problems: first, for UMNO leaders, how to remove Najib without hurting themselves and undermining the party? second, for his opponents, which parties rule after removing Najib? Underlying these two questions is UMNO’s electoral one-party state sustained by a nativist preferential policy to lock in the Malay-Muslim majority voters. A political transition requires a consensus on the post-party-state future.   Bio Wong Chin Huat is currently a fellow and the Head of the Political and Social Analysis section at the Penang Institute, Malaysia. He studied the relationship between the electoral system and the party system in West Malaysia for his doctorate at the University of Essex. His current research interests in Malaysia span across the electoral one-party state, federalism, parliamentary democracy, differentiated citizenship, ethnic anxieties and political Islam. He studies in detail the malapportionment and gerrymandering of constituencies and, through his involvement in the electoral reform movement Bersih, assists citizens to challenge such malpractices via administrative and legal channels. He regularly writes political commentaries in English, Malay and Chinese.

   

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