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Introduction: Midnight to millennium: Australia‐India interconnections

THE OVERARCHING THEME OF THE CONFERENCE 'MIDNIGHT TO Millennium' was the relationship between Australia and India. Perceptions of the relationship, itself multifaceted and complex, recurred across the diversity of papers presented, whether theoretical or realpolitik. The conference provided a forum in which to reassess interests and experiences common to Australia and India during India's first half century as an independent nation. The multi-disciplinary base of the conference brought together academics from both countries and representatives of the public and private sectors in Australia, to discuss political, economic and cultural issues which, individually and collectively, informed and fostered greater understanding of each other's preoccupations. While initiating collaborative discourse for the new millennium, clearly a forum as rich as this posed as many questions as it answered.