It’s how every good Australian relationship starts

Australians have one word for hello: G’day.

The same greeting, for a prime minister or a stranger at the beach, and it means the same thing to both: no ceremony, no pretence, let’s talk. Australia and the UAE have fifty years of diplomatic relations, a Strategic Partnership, a trade agreement in force. What’s been missing is the G’Day: the room where the people who actually decide things meet in person and collaborate. G’Day UAE is that room. It brings together the people who run governments, companies, creative industries and sport in both countries, and gives them a reason to be in the same place at the same time. A platform for turning an introduction into a relationship that lasts.

G’Day UAE is Australia’s flagship platform for public, cultural, sporting and economic engagement with the United Arab Emirates. Our two countries share more than most people realise: a love of sport, a serious respect for hospitality, and a preference for doing business with people you actually know and trust. It is designed to build deeper, more practical relationships between Australian and Emirati leaders.

This is the only event created to recognise Australians’ contributions to commerce, culture and sport in the UAE, and the first of its kind between our two countries. It is also, unapologetically, an Australian night out: the music, the culture, the food, and the particular Australian talent for making a black-tie room feel relaxed. The G’Day UAE Gala becomes annual: a fixture on the UAE cultural calendar and the night of the year for our community across the Emirates.

Small by design, and timed to advance the commercial and economic cooperation

New sectors coming soon.

Say G’Day first!

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