Tess Harwood is studying a Master of Public Policy, specialising in Foreign and Defence Policy, at ANU’s Crawford School of Public Policy in Canberra. To read more about the Foreign and Defence Policy specialisation at the Crawford School of Public Policy, click here.

“I always wanted to study at ANU. I’ve always been interested in Asia and the Pacific, and as you saw in my undergrad, I did Japanese and Indonesian. And I always tried to focus my international relations studies, to do with Asia and the Pacific, so ANU was the place Asia and the Pacific for me. So I wanted to come down here and do my post grad. I was looking at a few different courses here, and into Master of International Relations, Master of Diplomacy, Master of Asia and the Pacific.

“When I heard about the Master of Public Policy, I thought, that gives me something that’s quite substantial when I go to a government department and say, ‘look, I’ve got a master’s in public policy’. And when I saw that Crawford was doing specializations, and I saw that it was a specialization in foreign and defence policy, I was really excited because those are two of my passions…”