The Foundation will have an even more significant role to play now that Italy provides an important gateway to an increasingly integrated European Community, and Australia is becoming the obvious intermediary between the Pacific region and the West. Though based in the Department of Italian of the University of Sydney and directed by its Professor, the Foundation aims to reach out to other Italian cultural organisations, in Sydney and elsewhere. It has often acted as a sort of clearing house for Italian visitors, organising their visits to universities in other states. In Sydney it has co-sponsored activities with Mediterranean Archaeology and the Power Foundation of the University of Sydney, the Italian Institute of Culture, the University of New South Wales, the NSW Art Gallery, the S. H. Ervin Gallery and the National Italian Australian Women's Association. The Foundation publishes an occasional journal, Altro Polo , with each issue normally dedicated to a single theme.
Contributors come from Australia, Italy, North America and other European countries.
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