Ambition: the emerging foreign policy of the Rudd Government
In a new Lowy Institute Analysis entitled 'Ambition: the emerging foreign policy of the Rudd Government', Lowy Institute Executive Director Allan Gyngell explores what we have learned about the Rudd Government's emerging foreign policy, about the Prime Minister's own contributions to it and what questions it raises for the future.
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Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Allan Gyngell presentation Twelve months after the election of the Rudd Government, in the final Wednesday Lunch at Lowy for 2008, Lowy Institute Executive Director Allan Gyngell reflected on what we have learned about the Rudd Government's emerging foreign policy, about the Prime...
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Australia and the international financial crisis The annual Lowy Lecture on Australia in the World is the highlight of our events calendar. The 2008 lecture was delivered by Mr Ian Macfarlane AC in Sydney on Wednesday 3 December 2008.
In this lecture Mr Macfarlane seeks to answer the question of what...
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The 2008 Lowy Institute Poll: Australia and the world
The fourth annual Lowy Institute Poll surveys Australian public opinion on a range of foreign policy issues and contains a number of new questions this year. These cover attitudes towards Japanese whaling, foreign investment in Australia, China, the US presidential election, climate change, Australia’s international reputation under the new Rudd government and uranium.
The Poll also repeated a number of questions asked in previous years, allowing us to track some interesting changes in public opinion.
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Australia deserves a voice in reshaping the world
In an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review, Lowy Institute Executive Director Allan Gyngell argues that the coming summit on the global financial crisis presents a once in a lifetime opportunity for Australia.
Australian Financial Review, 30 October 2008, p. 67
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New Voices 2008
On Thursday 31 July 2008, the Lowy Institute held its fifth annual New Voices conference for young professionals, which this year discussed the new areas of responsibility that are arising as a result of globalisation. The outcomes report can be downloaded here.
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Think tanks and foreign policy
On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Lowy Institute for International Policy, Executive Director Allan Gyngell writes, in a paper in the Institute's Perspectives series, on the role of think tanks in shaping Australian foreign policy and in strengthening Australia's voice in the world.
A Wednesday Lowy Lunch presentation on the topic can be heard at http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Publication.asp?pid=811
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Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Allan Gyngell presentation
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 28 May, to mark the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Lowy Institute, Executive Director Allan Gyngell discussed the role of think tanks in shaping Australian foreign policy.
A version of this presentation is also available as a paper in the Lowy Institute Perspectives series.
The presentation can be heard here:
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Regional diplomacy has new impetus
In an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review, Allan Gyngell and Michael Wesley argue that Australia has a unique opportunity to become a pivotal Asia-Pacific player.
Australian Financial Review, 3 April 2008, p. 79
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Relations among nations on a finite planet
The third Lowy Lecture on 'Australia in the World' was given in Sydney on 19 November by Lord May of Oxford. It deals with one of the most urgent problems we face - the consequence for the international system of the range of environmental challenges facing the planet. Informed by his deep scientific and public policy experience, Lord May's lecture, entitled 'Relations among Nations on a Finite Planet', warns us of the changes that are needed in the way world politics operate as we enter this 'post-Metternich' age. Lord May is one of the most distinguished scientists Australia has produced. His Lowy Lecture is a major contribution to the Institute's mission of informing and deepening the global debate about international policy.
The presentation can be heard here: 2007 Lowy Lecture - MP3 (23MB)
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An indigenous element
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Executive Director Allan Gyngell argues the case for incorporating elements of indigenous culture in to Australia's official welcomes for foreign dignitaries.
The Australian, 31 January 2007, p. 12
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Australia and Indonesia
The changing Australian security relationship with its largest neighbour, Indonesia, is the subject of a chapter the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, Allan Gyngell, has contributed to a new book. 'Australia as an Asia Pacific Regional Power; Friendship in Flux' was edited by Dr Brendan Taylor and includes chapters by many leading Australian scholars. It is published by Routledge. You can read Allan Gyngell's chapter here.
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Better forums needed to serve the region
In this opinion piece, Lowy Institute Executive Director Allan Gyngell argues that Asia's regional architecture needs renovation.
Australian Financial Review, 3 September 2007, p. S7
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World order under stress: issues & initiatives
Professor Robert O'Neill AO, a member of the Lowy Institute's Board of Directors, delivered the Cunningham Lecture for 2007 at the Academy of the Social Sciences. The title of his Lecture, available here, is 'World order under stress: issues and initiatives for the 21st century'.
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Drafting a better future
In this opinion piece in The Age, Lowy Institute Executive Director Allan Gyngell writes on the achievements of APEC in the past eighteen years since its first meeting.
The Age, 1 September 2007, p. 6
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Australia and the world: public opinion and foreign policy
The Lowy Institute for International Policy conducts an annual poll surveying Australian public opinion on foreign policy and global affairs. The Poll is Australia's most comprehensive opinion poll on foreign policy and contains insights on issues of importance to Australians.
Please see the accompanying media release.
The complete report is available here.
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World public opinion on foreign policy
In June 2007, WorldPublicOpinion.org released the results of a worldwide survey of public opinion on foreign policy, 'World Public Opinion 2007'. The survey, led by WorldPublicOpinion.org together with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, incorporated the results of the second annual Lowy Institute Poll published in October 2006, surveying the Australian and Indonesian publics on questions of foreign policy, international issues and the bilateral relationship. WorldPublicOpinion.org led partner research organisations in America, China, India, East Asia, Europe, South America and the Middle East to produce the worldwide report of which the Lowy Institute surveys formed a part, in total surveying 21,890 people between July 2006 and March 2007.
'World Public Opinion 2007' combines and compares the results of these surveys, and can be downloaded here. The Lowy Institute Poll 2006 report is available at: http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Publication.asp?pid=470
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Design faults: the Asia Pacific’s regional architecture
In a new Policy Brief, Lowy Institute Executive Director Allan Gyngell argues that the Asia Pacific region has too many regional organisations, yet they are still unable to do all the things required of them. This matters at a time when the rising power of China and India presents new challenges. He suggests a new framework for regional institutions, including the establishment of a more effective security organisation and a heads of government meeting separate from APEC.
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Advancing the national interest in a globalising world
In December 2006, the Lowy Institute for International Policy hosted a seminar on 'Australia and World'. The seminar built on the contemporaneous launch of three Lowy Papers on the Australian economy, foreign and defence policy. Leading scholars, commentators and practitioners were asked to talk about the major international trends likely to shape Australian interests over the coming years, and what policy settings would be required to deal with them.
Attached is a Lowy Institute Perspective by Dr Nick Bisley, who was the rapporteur at the seminar. This Perspective is not a summary of the proceedings but the response of one participant to the debate and discussion.
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Address by Steven Lowy
On Friday 25 May, the Lowy Institute held its fourth annual New Voices conference for young professionals, which this year discussed international leadership in its many forms. The conference was opened by Steven Lowy with an address about the history and purpose behind the formation of the Westfield Group and the Lowy Institute itself. His speech can be downloaded here.
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Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Allan Gyngell presentation
On 18 July, the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, Allan Gyngell, addressed the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy about his new Policy Brief, entitled Design faults: the Asia Pacific’s regional architecture.
The Policy Brief is available here.
His presentation can be heard here:
Design faults: the Asia Pacific’s regional architecture - MP3 (19MB)
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Australia-New Zealand poll results
In late April, the Lowy Institute, in cooperation with the New Zealand Institute, conducted an opinion poll on both sides of the Tasman on Australia-New Zealand relations. The polling was released at the Australia New Zealand Leadership Forum, held in Sydney on 22-23 April 2007.
The results show that publics in both countries are comfortable with economic integration and would even consider a currency union. Still, the difference in size between our two countries reflects different attitudes to closer political union and the best way to deal with globalisation.
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New Voices 2007
On Friday, 25 May, the Lowy Institute held its fourth annual New Voices conference for young professionals, which this year discussed international leadership in its many forms. The outcomes report can be downloaded here.
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Australia-New Zealand poll analysis
A short analysis of the Lowy Institute's latest survey, on Australia-New Zealand relations, is available here.
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Interests, not identity
In the May edition of the Australian Book Review, the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, Allan Gyngell, reviews 'The Howard Paradox', a new book by Professor Michael Wesley examining the Howard government's policies towards Asia.
Australian Book Review, May 2007
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Prospects and perspectives on international security
The annual Lowy Lecture on Australia in the World is the highlight on our events calendar. The 2006 lecture was delivered by one of Australia’s most respected international strategic thinkers and international security experts, Professor Robert O’Neill AO.
In his lecture entitled Prospects and Perspectives for International Security, Professor O’Neill gave perspectives on key international security problems, based on his personal experience as a soldier, a scholar and an adviser to governments.
His lecture can be heard here:
2006 Lowy Lecture - MP3 (27MB)
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A welcome further step
Australia and Indonesia have negotiated a new Framework for Security Cooperation agreement. In this opinion piece for The Australian, the Institute’s executive director, Allan Gyngell, examines what it means for the relationship between two very different neighbours.
The Australian, 10 November 2006, p. 16
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Paradise revised
Allan Gyngell, the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, reflects in the current edition of the Griffith Review – The Trouble with Paradise – on changing Australian attitudes towards the United States. A version of the article also appeared in the Melbourne Age on 4 November 2006. The full Griffith Review site is:
http://www3.griffith.edu.au/01/griffithreview/current_edition.php
Griffith Review, Edition 14, Summer 2006-2007, pp 113-119
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Public opinion on foreign policy in the Asia-Pacific
In October 2006, the Lowy Institute released the results of the second annual Lowy Institute Poll, which surveyed the Australian and Indonesian publics on questions of foreign policy, international issues and the bilateral relationship. The surveys were part of a wider study, led by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, which included parallel surveys in America, China, India and South Korea.
A report giving the combined, comparative results of these surveys can be downloaded here. A companion document highlighting some of the results from an Australian perspective is also available.
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The Lowy Institute Poll 2006: Australia, Indonesia and the world
The Lowy Institute Poll broke new ground this year, conducting national public opinion surveys simultaneously in Australia and Indonesia. The report contains responses from both countries to questions on foreign and security policy, global affairs, and each other.
Some of the questions focus on Australia's relationship with Indonesia. Others, first asked in Australia in 2005 and repeated from one survey to the next, will reveal deep changes in opinion over time. The remainder were taken from a wider international study focused on the rise of China and India.
The 2006 poll was conducted in partnership with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, which fielded parallel surveys in China, India and the United States. The combined results will be available here from 12 October 2006.
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Australia and Indonesia compared
In this Lowy Institute Perspective, Murray Goot, Professor of Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, compares Australian and Indonesian public opinion on foreign policy, global affairs, and each other, using the results of the Lowy Institute Poll 2006.
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Australian defence policy
The outgoing Secretary of the Department of Defence, Mr Ric Smith AO PSM, gave his reflections on a time of deep change in Australian defence policy in a speech in the Lowy Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series on 13 November 2006 on the subject 'Change in defence'.
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Key findings of a multination public opinion survey in the Asia-Pacific, from an Australian perspective
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs has released a report, available on this website, giving the findings of a multination public opinion survey on attitudes to foreign policy, global issues, and the rise of China and India. The report includes survey work undertaken by the Lowy Institute in Australia along with data from America, China, India and South Korea.
A short piece highlighting the key results from an Australian perspective is available for download here.
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Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Ivan Cook presentation
On 4 October at Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Lowy Institute Research Associate Ivan Cook presented the results of the Lowy Institute Poll 2006.
The Lowy Institute Poll is a series of annual public opinion surveys focused on international policy issues. This year we conducted surveys simultaneously in Australia and Indonesia, polling both publics on questions of foreign and security policy, global issues, and the bilateral relationship, as well as updating some results from the inaugural Lowy Institute Poll in 2005.
His presentation can be heard here:
2006 Lowy Institute Poll - MP3 (19MB)
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Lowy Institute Poll Data Book 2005
Data book 2005 contains the raw data collected by the Lowy Institute Poll. It supports the report of the first edition of the Poll, entitled Australians Speak 2005: Public Opinion and Foreign Policy, which is also available for download.
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Australians speak 2005: public opinion and foreign policy
The Lowy Institute Poll is the most comprehensive single survey ever taken of Australian public opinion on foreign policy. The report, Australians Speak 2005: Public Opinion and Foreign Policy, contains insights on issues ranging from Australian defence policy to relations with our friends and allies and our involvement in Iraq.
The 2005 Poll is the first of a regular Lowy Institute series which not only takes a snapshot of Australian views at a particular moment, but will also enable us to track changes in public attitudes over time. The Data Book containing the raw results of the survey is also available for download.
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We're still very wary of Indonesia
In this op-ed, appearing in The Australian on 3 October, Malcolm Cook and Ivan Cook write that while Australians now feel comfortable with Asia, we are still wary about our closest big neighbour, Indonesia. Results from the Lowy Institute Poll 2006 reveal that Indonesians and Australians are worryingly ignorant of each other and also distrustful and suspicious. If we are to build a better relationship, as many respondents would like to, we should work harder to build first knowledge, then mutual understanding.
The Australian, 3 October 2006, p. 12
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Balancing Australia’s security interests
Lowy Institute Executive Director Allan Gyngell delivered a speech to the Global Forces 2006 Conference at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute on 27 September 2006.
The speech is available for download in the Lowy Institute Perspectives series.
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Australia’s new security environment
Allan Gyngell, the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, argues in a speech delivered to the Royal Australian Navy Seapower Conference 2006 on 1 February that Australia’s new security environment has been shaped by two important developments – the rise of China, part of a slow rebalancing of global political and economic power back towards Asia, and the significant increase in the power of non-state actors in the international system. Both in their way are manifestations of the technological revolution that we describe in shorthand as globalisation. Globalisation has changed not just the way the Australian government thinks about security, but the way it has to act to preserve it. The full text can be downloaded here.
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The Hon John Howard MP, Prime Minister of Australia
On Thursday 31 March 2005, the Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon John Howard, MP, delivered the inaugural Lowy Lecture on Australia in the World. The Lecture was given at a dinner at the Westin Hotel in Sydney.
The Lowy Lecture on Australia in the World will be delivered annually by a person of note.
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The new world
The Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, Allan Gyngell, gave a speech in Melbourne on 6 October 2005 to the Victorian Employers Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
He argues that globalisation is one of the principal drivers of change in the world, that is here to stay, that it is developing an increasingly Asian face and that if we respond effectively, Australia is well placed to benefit.
An edited version of this speech appeared in The Age, 7 October 2005, p. 10
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A new confidence
Allan Gyngell, the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, examines the changing dynamics of Australian foreign policy in an article in the March edition of the United States journal, Current History. He looks at how globalisation is changing the ways in which Australia interacts with its powerful ally, the United States, and its neighbours in the Asia Pacific region.
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Binding the World Together
On 10 June 2005, the Lowy Institute hosted its second annual New Voices conference. The New Voices initiative is part of the Institute’s outreach efforts and serves three main goals: 1) to introduce the Institute and some of the bigger questions it grapples with to a new audience; 2) to provide engaged early-career people from a variety of backgrounds with a platform to express their insights and ideas on important issues of international policy; and 3) to facilitate professional cross-pollination and relationship-building.
The conference outcomes report can be downloaded via the link.
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National obsession with change belies our position
Allan Gyngell, Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, writes about the current debates on Australia’s position in the world.
Australian Financial Review, 25 November 2003, p.63
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Changing utterly? Australia's international policy in an uncertain age
Changing utterly? Australia's international policy in an uncertain age: proceedings of a Lowy Institute conference held in November 2003. The proceedings, edited by Professor William Tow, are now available for download.
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