Tim Watts MP
@timwattsmp.bsky.social
Special Envoy for Indian Ocean Affairs; Member for Gellibrand. Authorised: Tim Watts, Australian Labor Party, 455 Melbourne Rd Newport.
So happy to see Race Around the World coming back. An iconic Australian TV Series. Well done ABC!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Travel the globe for 100 days with the ABC's '90s TV reboot
Cult '90s show Race Around the World is back, and we're on the hunt for fearless storytellers! Got a passport, an epic sense of adventure and an eye for a story? We want to hear from you.
www.abc.net.au
November 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
So happy to see Race Around the World coming back. An iconic Australian TV Series. Well done ABC!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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).
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).
October 14, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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).
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).
Reposted by Tim Watts MP
“Our Asia capability is going backwards in our schools, universities and workplaces,” writes Tim Watts in The Interpreter.
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/complacent-nation-australia-asian-century
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/complacent-nation-australia-asian-century
Complacent nation: Australia and the Asian Century
Decades of ambition have left us with a nation still unable to speak the language of our neighbours.
www.lowyinstitute.org
September 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
“Our Asia capability is going backwards in our schools, universities and workplaces,” writes Tim Watts in The Interpreter.
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/complacent-nation-australia-asian-century
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/complacent-nation-australia-asian-century
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.
Australians have long known that our future security and prosperity will be determined in our region, the Indo-Pacific.
September 22, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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.
Australians have long known that our future security and prosperity will be determined in our region, the Indo-Pacific.
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...
“The voting behaviour of Indian Australians reveals a sophisticated and pragmatic approach to electoral participation.”
www.dfat.gov.au/sites/defaul...
September 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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...
“The voting behaviour of Indian Australians reveals a sophisticated and pragmatic approach to electoral participation.”
www.dfat.gov.au/sites/defaul...
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
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
September 1, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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
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
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.
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.
August 27, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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.
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.
Reposted by Tim Watts MP
Hopefully see you in an hour or so for a live @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING special with Aussie PM Anthony Albanese mid election campaign www.youtube.com/live/Z_6BFOt...
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese LIVE: Can he win?
What is Anthony Albanese's plan for Australia's relationship with the UK and America? How close could the election on the 3rd of May be? What are the key voter issues in Australia today, and how will ...
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April 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Hopefully see you in an hour or so for a live @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING special with Aussie PM Anthony Albanese mid election campaign www.youtube.com/live/Z_6BFOt...
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.
March 20, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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.
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.
Which makes it all the more extraordinary that Peter Dutton didn't mention India once in his Foreign Policy "vision speech" today.
March 20, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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.
Which makes it all the more extraordinary that Peter Dutton didn't mention India once in his Foreign Policy "vision speech" today.
Since it's that time of the year, a selection of books that I've particularly enjoyed throughout 2024...
December 29, 2024 at 10:54 PM
Since it's that time of the year, a selection of books that I've particularly enjoyed throughout 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.
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.
November 28, 2024 at 9:10 AM
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.
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.
First #APHBasketball post of the BlueSky!
November 25, 2024 at 9:14 PM
First #APHBasketball post of the BlueSky!
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
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#BookChallenge
1/20
#Books
#BookSky
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#BookChallenge
1/20
November 25, 2024 at 3:27 AM
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
#Books
#BookSky
📚📚📚
#BookChallenge
1/20
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.
An Australian story, a universal story - it deserves success as great as its ambition.
It will fill your heart.
November 16, 2024 at 6:20 AM
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.
An Australian story, a universal story - it deserves success as great as its ambition.
It will fill your heart.
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!
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!
November 13, 2024 at 5:59 AM
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!
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!
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!
We had a typically wide-ranging chat about the world past and present .. and some Dalrymple ancestors.
No spoilers for what's next!
November 4, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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!
We had a typically wide-ranging chat about the world past and present .. and some Dalrymple ancestors.
No spoilers for what's next!
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?
It's great to see Rory in Australia, but it does beg the question of why there isn't a @restispolitics Australia?
October 21, 2024 at 7:11 AM
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?
It's great to see Rory in Australia, but it does beg the question of why there isn't a @restispolitics Australia?