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The Institute seeks to achieve its aims by inviting to Australia prominent Polish intellectuals and public figures to deliver lectures and to meet key figures in the political, cultural and academic life of this country. AIPA's sponsored visitors have included:

• PROF MICHAL HELLER - 17 March 2007
• DR GUNNAR PAULSSON - 22 April 2006
• PROF MAREK BELKA - March 2006
• MARCEL WEYLAND, the translator of Adam Mickiewicz's epic novel 'Pan Tadeusz' - March 2005
• DR KRZYSZTOF ZAGORSKI - February 2005
• DR HANNA SUCHOCKA and JAN KRZYSZTOF BIELECKI - both former Prime Ministers of Poland
• PROF. WLADYSLAW BARTOSZEWSKI - former Minister for Foreign Affairs, a war hero and historian
• KRZYSZTOF ZANUSSI - one of Poland's leading film directors
• PROF. LESZEK BALCEROWICZ - former Deputy Prime Minister, Treasurer and the main architect of the Polish economic transformation
• ADAM MICHNIK - Editor-in-Chief of the largest Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza, a prominent Polish dissident and one of the original leaders of Solidarity
• TIMOTHY GARTON ASH - historian and political writer, Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford (visit co-sponsored by The Age, the Goethe Institute and the Melbourne Writers' Festival 2000)
• DR HANNA GRONKIEWICZ-WALTZ - former President of the Reserve Bank of Poland EVA HOFFMAN - American writer and journalist (visit co-sponsored by the Melbourne Writers' Festival 2003)
• PROF. BRONISLAW GEREMEK - former Minister of Foreign Affairs, historian and a prominent dissident during the Solidarity years
• PROF. LEON KIERES - President of Poland's Institute of National Remembrance

The Institute's visitors have been widely reported in the national media and have addressed events at a range of institutions, both political and academic, including the Parliament of Australia, the National Press Club (Canberra), the Institute of Public Affairs (Melbourne), the Jewish Holocaust Museum (Melbourne) as well as conferences and symposia organised by Australian universities.