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Tim Watts MP @timwattsmp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

How can Australia maximise the choices available to us in the face of the rapid evolution of AI? Thank you to Darren Lim for an in depth chat on a complex and consequential policy challenge: how to shape the development of AI in Australia’s interests. open.spotify.com/episode/3Zl0...

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Ep. 191: Tim Watts MP on AI sovereignty, safety and Australia’s choices

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Tim Watts MP @timwattsmp.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It’s often said that no country is more important to Australia than Indonesia. If so, there’s no country more important for us to understand than Indonesia. Despite this, Indonesian language teaching is on track to be functionally extinct in Australia by 2031 - in the next term of parliament.

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Tim Watts MP @timwattsmp.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The House Education Committee has released the unanimous report ‘Security and Prosperity in Asia: Building Australia’s Asia capability’. You can read the report here: chooseasia.net

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Tim Watts MP @timwattsmp.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

There are just two Liberal MPs in the Chamber as Anne Aly delivers a Ministerial Statement on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

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Tim Watts MP @timwattsmp.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

While there has been a drum beat of op eds heralding the end of long form reading in the face of increasing AI adoption and decreasing attention spans this year, I’ve found the opposite in my own reading life in 2025. I’ve read more - and in more depth - this year than in a long time. Highlights:

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Tim Watts MP @timwattsmp.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Tragically I polished off “Bedtime Stories for Cricket Tragics” in a session this weekend. Felt like a ten year old again obsessing about test cricketers from a century ago. Thankfully there are plenty more stories to come… starting the clock on Vol 2 now @finalwordcricket.bsky.social

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Tim Watts MP @timwattsmp.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

It’s always a pleasure to share a conversation over a meal with Shashi Tharoor - but particularly when he comes bearing books! It was wonderful to be able to welcome Shashi back to Melbourne and to talk cricket, books and international affairs (I promise that I only mentioned Alyssa Healy once).

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Tim Watts MP @timwattsmp.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Today the House Education Committee launched a new inquiry into Australia’s Asia Capability: lnkd.in/gzadKje9 Australians have long known that our future security and prosperity will be determined in our region, the Indo-Pacific.

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Tim Watts MP @timwattsmp.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Some inconvenient research for the conspiracy theorists: “The voting behaviour of Indian Australians reveals a sophisticated and pragmatic approach to electoral participation.” www.dfat.gov.au/sites/defaul...

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Tim Watts MP @timwattsmp.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Ok ABC Radio National, you know how to get me to bite!📚 Voting opened today in RN’s Top 100 Books of the past 25 years and I couldn’t help voting early. What's your favourite book of this century so far? Vote now: bit.ly/45rGkgE #RadioNational #Top100Books

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Tim Watts MP @timwattsmp.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

All the world’s a stage - including Australian Parliament House! A lovely change of pace this morning when Bell Shakespeare gave a pop up performance of scenes from Romeo and Juliet in the Marble Foyer this morning.

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Tim Watts MP @timwattsmp.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The great historian of Australia's relationship with Asia, David Walker, once recounted how in 1966, a newly elected Andrew Peacock burnished his leadership credentials by taking up the cause of Asian engagement - 'a proven topic for earnest statements with visionary appeal' even then.

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Tim Watts MP @timwattsmp.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Australia's economic, strategic and community connections with India have never been stronger or more important. Which makes it all the more extraordinary that Peter Dutton didn't mention India once in his Foreign Policy "vision speech" today.

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Tim Watts MP @timwattsmp.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Since it's that time of the year, a selection of books that I've particularly enjoyed throughout 2024...

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Tim Watts MP @timwattsmp.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Most unlikely debut test innings since Ashton Agar #ausvind

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Tim Watts MP @timwattsmp.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

A bit of a thrill to meet the Australian and Indian players in the PM's XI game at Parliament House. I told Virat Kohli that I support Royal Challengers in the IPL because it's the only opportunity I get to legitimately barrack for him.

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Tim Watts MP @timwattsmp.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky 📚📚📚 #BookChallenge 1/20

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Tim Watts MP @timwattsmp.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Everyone is raving about it, so let me join in - the @MelbTheatreCo production of My Brilliant Career is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. An Australian story, a universal story - it deserves success as great as its ambition. It will fill your heart.

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Tim Watts MP @timwattsmp.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

It was a privilege to catch up with author, diplomat, MP & public intellectual, Dr Shashi Tharoor at the Australia India Institute today. I thanked him for teaching Australians the meaning of the word 'epicaracy', during the last Indian test tour of Australia. Hoping to get use of it this summer!

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Tim Watts MP @timwattsmp.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

William Dalrymple's books have given me countless hours of entertainment and enlightenment so it was thrill for me to be able to meet him to say thank you. We had a typically wide-ranging chat about the world past and present .. and some Dalrymple ancestors. No spoilers for what's next!

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Tim Watts MP @timwattsmp.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

A pleasure to catch up with Rory Stewart on his Australian tour to compare notes on global politics and political life. It's great to see Rory in Australia, but it does beg the question of why there isn't a @restispolitics Australia?

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