Hosted by the UTS Centre for Sport, Business and Society in association with Western Sydney University’s Institute for Culture and Society and World Leisure Centre of Excellence

Over the last decade, sport diplomacy has become an increasingly important component of the geopolitics of Oceania, particularly regarding competition for influence between the USA and its allies and the People’s Republic of China. This seminar analyses sport’s key role in regional diplomacy in the southern Pacific, including in the context of the iterations of Australia’s sports diplomacy strategy since 2015, the AU$600 million investment in rugby league in Papua New Guinea, and the AU$15.6 million investment in Pacific preparation for the 2032 Olympic Games. David Rowe draws on his recent co-authored book Playing on the Edge: Sport, Society and Culture in Asia and Oceania and current writing to question the complex and conflicting relationships between sport diplomacy, sport for development and ‘sportswashing’. Rohini Balram and Adam Cohen will respond, emphasising the intersectional power dynamics of sport in Oceania.

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