Bipolar policy on Indonesia harms our ties
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Executive Director Dr Michael Wesley writes that Canberra's stable relationship with Jakarta is more luck than design.
The Australian, 25 January 2012, p. 9
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Renewing an alliance In an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, Lowy Institute Director of Studies Andrew Shearer writes that as the United States expands military activity in Australia and stresses its Asian presence, the focus on Darwin is really about the future...
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New Voices 2011 On 8 July 2011, the Lowy Institute for International Policy hosted its eighth annual New Voices conference. The 2011 conference ‘Dynamic Asia’ adopted an Indo-Pacific regional focus. ‘Dynamic Asia’ required participants to interrogate the way in which we think...
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Distinguished Speaker Series - Dennis Richardson presentation
 On 30 August 2011 in Canberra, at a special event in the Lowy Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series, Mr Dennis Richardson, AO, Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, spoke on the topic 'DFAT: who are we, and what do we do?'
Mr Richardson outlined the role of his department and the diplomats he leads in pursuing Australia's national interests in the 21st century.
His presentation can be heard here:
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The Yanks are welcome in Oz
In an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal Asia, Lowy Institute Director of Studies Andrew Shearer writes that on its 60th anniversary, the Australia-US alliance faces new risks and dangers, including cyber attacks and China’s rapid military modernisation.
Wall Street Journal Asia, 15 September 2011, p. 15
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Language barrier we don't want to breach
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Andrew Carr, Deputy Editor of the Lowy Institute's blog, The Interpreter, www.lowyinterpreter.org, writes that Australians continue to baulk at learning Asian languages.
The Australian, 9 November 2011, p. 29
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We must look to Asia to change our teaching models
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Executive Director Dr Michael Wesley argues that our education systems are not adequately preparing us for dealing with the rise of Asia.
The Australian, 26 October 2011, p. 29
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The Pacific President comes to Australia
 The White House announced that US President Barack Obama will visit Australia in mid November to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Australia-US alliance.
At the Food for Thought event in Melbourne on 6 October 2011, the Lowy Institute hosted a panel discussion with Daniel Flitton, Andrew Shearer and Judith Sloan previewing President Obama's visit.
Their discussion can be heard here:
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Diplomatic disrepair: rebuilding Australia's international policy infrastructure
On 22 August 2011, the Lowy Institute for International Policy released an in-depth report, 'Diplomatic disrepair: rebuilding Australia’s international policy infrastructure', reviewing Australia’s overseas diplomatic network and comparing it with the foreign services of other developed nations. The report’s authors argue that Australia's diplomacy remains seriously under-resourced and lagging behind comparable nations.
Among the report’s recommendations is a call for a major and ongoing boost to funding the Department of Foreign Affairs, expanding Australia’s diplomatic footprint and opening new missions in emerging centres of influence and economic opportunity.
An accompanying Fact Sheet is at: http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Publication.asp?pid=1676
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Uncharted waters: the US alliance and Australia's new era of strategic uncertainty
September 2011 marks two important milestones – the tenth anniversary of the devastating 9/11 terrorist attacks and the 60th anniversary of the signing of the ANZUS security treaty during the height of the Cold War.
In a new paper in the Lowy Institute’s Perspective series, 'Uncharted waters: the US alliance and Australia’s new era of strategic uncertainty', Andrew Shearer reviews Australian public attitudes towards the US alliance in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and America’s unprecedented credit downgrading.
Launched on 17th August, this unique take on the future of the alliance was immediately picked up by national commentators, adding to a robust discussion and debate on US-China commentary.
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Diminishing diplomacy exemplifies dumb and dumber foreign policy
In an article in The Australian on the foreign policy performance of the Australian government, Greg Sheridan describes as "devasating" the new Lowy Institute report on Australia's diplomatic infrastructure by Alex Oliver and Andrew Shearer, 'Diplomatic disrepair: rebuilding Australia's international policy infrastructure'. The Sheridan article is available at http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opinion/diminishing-diplomacy-exemplifies-dumb-and-dumber-foreign-policy/story-e6frgd0x-1226126773276.
The full 'Diplomatic disrepair' report is available at http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Publication.asp?pid=1673.
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Pacific faces vital choices on Asia
In an opinion piece in The New Zealand Herald, Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Wesley writes that the Pacific Islands Forum is at a crossroads as tiger economies muscle up.
This is a summary of Dr Wesley's keynote address to the Institute's conference, "'The Pacific Islands and the world: Realising the Pacific's Potential" in Auckland on 5th September 2011.
New Zealand Herald, 5 September 2011, p. A9
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Lowy Lecture Series - Andrew Shearer presentation
With ANZUS nearing its 60th anniversary, Andrew Shearer addressed the current debate about how Australia should respond to shifting power in Asia and the future of the alliance in a more uncertain world at the Lowy Lecture Series on 17 August 2011.
His presentation can be heard here:
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Diplomatic wooden spooners: Andrew Shearer interview on ABC radio
Alex Sloan interviewed Andrew Shearer in Canberra on the state of Australia's diplomatic network, following yesterday's release of Diplomatic Disrepair: rebuilding Australia's international policy infrastructure. Andrew argues that more than two decades of neglect of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), over a period when Australia has become one of the most globalised countries in the world, have impaired Australia's capacity to cultivate relationships with important new global powers and threaten to weaken Australia's standing in the world.
A transcript of the interview and a podcast are available to download here:
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/08/23/3300083.htm
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Diplomatic disrepair: Fact sheet
This fact sheet accompanies the Lowy Institute report by Alex Oliver and Andrew Shearer, 'Diplomatic disrepair: rebuilding Australia's international policy infrastructure', released on 22 August 2011. The report is available at: http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Publication.asp?pid=1673
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The future state of the world: what it means for Australia's foreign aid program
In late 2010, the Australian Government commissioned a review of Australia's aid program to identify the best way forward for a program with a budget increasing to between $8 and $9 billion by 2015-2016. The report of that review was released in Canberra on July 6 along with the government’s response. In putting its report together, the review team, headed by Mr Sandy Hollway, needed to consider how global and regional developments over the next decade might impact on the direction and focus of Australia’s aid program. The Lowy Institute was commissioned by the review team to undertake a study of the future state of the world and what it could mean for the aid program. The paper looks key influences on global development; it considers the critical 'swing factors' which could result in major changes; and finally, it identifies potential implications for the program.
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Struggling to be heard: Australia's international broadcasters fight for a voice in the region
In the Summer 2011 issue of Public Diplomacy magazine, Alex Oliver and Annmaree O’Keeffe describe the struggle by Australia’s international broadcasters for an effective voice in the Asia region, hampered by a volatile funding environment and government neglect of public diplomacy as a vital tool for Australia’s relations with its neighbours. The Public Diplomacy magazine is published by the USC Center on Public Diplomacy (CPD) at the Annenberg School for Communications and the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California.
The article can be read at: http://publicdiplomacymagazine.com/struggling-to-be-heard-australia%e2%80%99s-international-broadcasters-fight-for-a-voice-in-the-region/
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The 2011 Lowy Institute Poll
The seventh annual Lowy Institute Poll surveys Australian public opinion on a wide range of foreign policy issues. New questions this year cover attitudes towards the US alliance and the war in Afghanistan, opinions on basing US forces in Australia, WikiLeaks, foreign aid and the intervention in Libya.
The Poll also repeated questions asked in previous years, revealing trends in public opinion on topics such as climate change, asylum seekers, and attitudes towards Indonesia, the United States and China.
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Lowy Lecture Series - Panellists' presentations
 At the Lowy Lecture Series on 20 July, a high-level panel, with Sandy Hollway AO, Jack De Groot and Rowan Callick, considered how well Australia's aid program is placed to respond to evolving development challenges. Annmaree O'Keeffe, Research Fellow at the Lowy Institute, chaired the discussion.
The panellists can be heard here:
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Aid sector all go but no direction
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Research Fellow Annmaree O'Keeffe takes a critical look at the winners and losers in last week’s increased foreign aid budget. While supporting the government’s commitment to increase the aid budget, she asks where is the strategy to guide the increase. It’s now almost four years since this commitment became government policy.
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The challenge of intelligence
On 30 March, Allan Gyngell, Director-General of the Office of National Assessments, and former Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, spoke at the Institute’s annual Canberra Dinner on 'The challenges of intelligence'.
The Canberra Dinner recognises those scholars or practitioners who have in their own careers successfully bridged the academic and policymaking worlds. Previous speakers have been Dr Coral Bell, the Hon. Kim Beazley AC, Sir Lawrence Freedman and Dr Kurt Campbell.
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Lowy Institute Poll 2011
 The Lowy Institute released its 2011 Poll on Monday, 27 June.
The Poll was launched by Lowy Institute Executive Director, Dr Michael Wesley, and was followed by an interactive discussion with panelists, including a Q&A. The discussants were: The Hon. Bob Carr, Laura Tingle and Senator Russell Trood.
The panel can be heard here:
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Irresistible rise of the Indo-Pacific
In an article in The Australian's Australian Literary Review, Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Wesley writes on how the growth of China and India makes engagement with Asia our No. 1 diplomatic priority.
Australian Literary Review, 4 May 2011, pp. 6-7
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Making a whale out of a guppy
In an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review, Malcolm Cook and Fergus Hanson argue that Australia's pursuit of Japan over whaling may do more harm than good.
Australian Financial Review, 23 May 2011, p. 55
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China in the Pacific: the new banker in town
This is the fourth in a series of Lowy Institute reports on China’s aid program in the Pacific. They now cover the five-year period 2005-2009, offering the most detailed picture available of China’s activities in the region. China has been increasing the loan to grant ratio of its aid and has now pledged over $US600 million to Pacific states. In Tonga, pledged loans from China equate to one third of its GDP.
Previous reports:
China: stumbling through the Pacific
The dragon in the Pacific: more opportunity than threat
The dragon looks south
The authors' presentations can be heard here:
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Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Fergus Hanson presentation
Technology and the rapid spread of the internet and mobile phones are changing the way diplomacy is being conducted. Leading diplomatic services are adapting, but many are being left behind. New digital tools mean foreign ministries need to change the way they communicate, manage staff, pursue foreign policy goals and solve problems.
Australia’s own Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has a lot of catching up to do. It also has a lot to gain from adopting these new platforms.
This Wednesday Lowy Lunch was delivered by Fergus Hanson, author of the recent Lowy Institute Policy Brief, A digital DFAT: joining the 21st century.
His presentation can be heard here:
E-diplomacy and why Australia needs to catch up, fast - MP3 (17MB)
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Gillard channels her inner Howard
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Director of Studies Andrew Shearer writes that Prime Minister Julia Gillard should count her northeast Asia tour a modest success: there were no big breakthroughs but neither were there significant stumbles.
The Australian, 28 April 2011, p. 12
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The view north from Down Under
In an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal Asia, Lowy Institute Director of Studies Andrew Shearer writes that Prime Minister Gillard's Northeast Asia tour is also an opportunity to consider what Australia and other countries in the region should not do.
Wall Street Journal Asia, 25 April 2011, p. 13
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Distinguished Speaker Series - Peter Horrocks presentation
What is the BBC’s global role in this fast-changing world? The information revolution and the ease of global interconnectedness are transforming the nature of international broadcasting. These changes, including the rise in new international broadcasters, have rapidly transformed the way in which major stories are reported and followed.
On 23 March, the Director of BBC’s Global News division, Peter Horrocks, described how broadcast audiences and the world they live in are evolving. A transcript is available here.
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Behind China's secret aid program, debt looms
Fergus Hanson and Mary Fifita write in The Drum on the debt aspect of China's aid program in the Pacific region. They are the authors of a new Lowy Institute Policy Brief, 'China in the Pacific: the new banker in town', available at: http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Publication.asp?pid=1546
The Drum, 6 April 2011
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Harnessing the power of social media in international relations
Lowy Institute Research Fellow Fergus Hanson writes for ISN Insights that Twitter may be just another way of sharing inane chatter, but if you have written the service off, think again. Social media has emerged as a powerful new tool in international relations, and it deserves closer attention.
ISN Insights, 31 March 2011
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The new public diplomacy
Lowy Institute Research Fellow Fergus Hanson has published an article in the April issue of the Australian Institute of International Affairs' AIIA Policy Commentary on international relations in the digital age, entitled 'The new public diplomacy'.
The full issue is available at: http://www.aiia.asn.au/resources/publications
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SEA-blindness: why Southeast Asia matters
On 9 March 2011, Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Wesley gave a speech at the East-West Center in Washington DC on the geostrategic importance of Southeast Asia, or the 'Indo-Pacific Peninsula'.
The speech, 'SEA-blindness: why Southeast Asia matters', can be read here.
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We need to broadcast to the world, not whisper
In an opinion piece in The Sydney Morning Herald, Lowy Institute Research Fellow Alex Oliver argues that recent cuts to the BBC World Service and Voice of America indicate that the West is in danger of losing its voice to the world if damaging cuts to international broadcasting and public diplomacy programs continue. Australia’s own international broadcasters, Australia Network and Radio Australia, play a valuable role in the region and should be properly supported by Government.
Sydney Morning Herald, 2 March 2011, p. 15
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Thai studies in Australia
The Australia-Thailand Institute (ATI) commissioned the Lowy Institute to assess the progress and viability of the National Thai Studies Centre at the Australian National University, and more broadly, the viability of the ATI funding research, teaching and outreach designed to build Australians’ awareness of and interest in Thailand.
The final report is available here.
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Why the West is on the wane
In this opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Wesley writes that in the Great Convergence, the emerging economies are stealing a march. The piece is an extract from Dr Wesley's speech at Pricewaterhouse Coopers on 10 February.
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A digital DFAT: joining the 21st century
 E-diplomacy is no longer a boutique extra. Serious foreign ministries are embracing e-diplomacy to do their jobs more effectively and efficiently. New digital tools offer far better means of communicating both internally and externally. They also allow governments to reach audiences – like important areas of the blogosphere – they would otherwise be cut off from.
Australia’s own Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has a lot of catching up to do. It also has a lot to gain from adopting these new platforms.
This policy brief looks at the latest e-diplomacy innovations being pioneered by the US, UK and Canadian foreign ministries, drawing on meetings with the e-diplomacy units from all three countries.
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A victory for the culture of paranoia
In an article in The Sydney Morning Herald, Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Wesley writes that the leaking of American diplomatic cables will only make governments more secretive.
Sydney Morning Herald, 4 December 2010, p. 9
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Australia's choices in 2011
 The fate of the West. The shape of Asia. The choices facing Australia.
These are big questions.
Dr Michael Wesley addressed these questions in a speech delivered on 10 February.
'Australia's choices in 2011' is available for download here as part of our Perspectives series.
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Australia's deepening diplomatic deficit
In the November 2010 issue of Government Business Foreign Affairs and Trade magazine, Alex Oliver examines the continuing crisis in Australia’s foreign service. Funding cuts by successive governments have weakened the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to the point where even its most basic functions are at risk.
Government Business Foreign Affairs and Trade, November 2010, pp. 16-20
http://www.governmentmedia.com.au/
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Science and Australia's place in the world
 On Thursday 18 November, Dr Megan Clark, Chief Executive of CSIRO, delivered the 2010 Lowy Lecture on Australia in the World. In her lecture, 'Science and Australia's place in the world', available here, Dr Clark argued that Australia's science and innovation capability are fundamental to our future as a nation and our place in the world.
Her presentation can be heard here:
The 2010 Lowy Lecture - MP3 (31MB)
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What makes a leader? Mapping leadership in our region
Does Australia understand the leaders of our region? Is our $1.4bn in scholarship funding reaching the right people? There is good reason to believe that leaders matter, and that they are particularly important in developing countries. This new Lowy Institute Analysis presents the results of a major empirical study of nearly 100 senior leaders in Timor-Leste and Samoa, from the President and Prime Minister down. The study yielded intriguing insights into the pathways leaders have taken to power, and the role Australia did (or did not) play in their lives. The findings have important implications for future Australian policy development in the areas of scholarship, special visits and alumni programs, and the potential for fruitful collaboration between government, the private and non-government sectors in building greater understanding and stronger relationships with the leadership in our region.
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Interview: Alex Oliver
In an in-depth interview on SBS's Korea program, Research Fellow Alex Oliver spoke about two recent Lowy Institute reports, 'International broadcasting and its contribution to public diplomacy' and 'What makes a leader? Mapping leadership in our region'.
The interview can be heard at: http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/korean/audiohighlights/page/in/english
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DFAT the dinosaur needs to find Facebook friends
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Research Fellow Fergus Hanson argues e-diplomacy is changing the way foreign ministries conduct their business. It is no longer an optional extra yet DFAT is a long way behind other benchmark foreign ministries.
The Australian, 23 November 2010, p. 14
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What makes a good leader? Fergus Hanson and Alex Oliver interview
Lowy Institute Research Fellows Fergus Hanson and Alex Oliver were interviewed on Late Night Live about their in-depth study of the education, family background and traditions that go to make leaders in the Pacific States.
The study is available at:
http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Publication.asp?pid=1421
The interview can be heard at: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2010/3060114.htm
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Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Fergus Hanson and Alex Oliver presentations
Do leaders matter? Are the trajectories of nations directed by unstoppable social and economic forces regardless of who’s in charge, or are the histories of states those of a handful of highly influential leaders?
At the Wednesday Lowy Lunch on 20 October, Fergus Hanson and Alex Oliver reported on an intensive empirical pilot study tracing the pathways taken by leaders in Timor-Leste and Samoa.
Their presentations can be heard here:
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International broadcasting and its contribution to public diplomacy
After a convoluted (and ultimately abandoned) public tender process, the Federal Government has awarded the contract to run the Australia Network, Australia's international television service, to the ABC indefinitely. Australia Network is one of the two government-funded international broadcasters which play an important role in Australia’s public diplomacy efforts. A paper by Annmaree O’Keeffe and Alex Oliver released last year by the Lowy Institute looks at the role played by a range of international broadcasters in supporting their respective governments’ public diplomacy efforts. The paper draws conclusions on key ingredients needed for an effective international broadcasting future for Australia. Commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the paper was intended to stimulate broader debate about the contribution of Australia’s own international broadcasters to public diplomacy.
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Role of leaders assists in the strategy of aid
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Fergus Hanson and Alex Oliver, authors of a new Lowy Institute Analysis 'What makes a leader? Leadership mapping in our region', set out some of the key findings from their report mapping the leadership in Samoa and Timor-Leste. The full report can be downloaded from the Lowy Institute website: http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Publication.asp?pid=1421
The Australian, 27 October 2010, p. 10
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Quiet on the foreign policy front
Fergus Hanson, Research Fellow and Director of the Lowy Poll project, in an article for the International Relations and Security Network (ISN) Security Watch, writes that a lively election campaign has barely touched upon Australia's increasingly important and complex foreign relations.
ISN Security Watch, 19 August 2010
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?lng=en&id=120378
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The 2010 Lowy Institute Poll
The sixth annual Lowy Institute Poll surveys Australian public opinion on a range of foreign policy issues. New questions this year cover the Rudd Government’s handling of foreign policy issues during its first term in office, whether Australia should develop nuclear weapons, attitudes towards Indonesia and US power, sanctions against Fiji and the morality of Australia’s foreign policy.
The Poll also repeated questions asked in previous years, revealing trends in public opinion on topics such as climate change, Australia’s military involvement in Afghanistan, and attitudes towards the United States and China.
A panel discussion about the poll can be heard here:
The 2010 Lowy Institute Poll - MP3 (23MB)
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Iran's refusal to negotiate will not work
William Hague, British Foreign Secretary, cites the 2010 Lowy Poll in assessing the Iran nuclear program as one of the greatest security threats confronting the world.
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Aid program is healthy but in need of a plan
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Research Fellow Annmaree O'Keeffe writes that Australian aid dollars are reaching a greater range of countries around the world.
The Australian, 20 September 2010, p. 10
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Australia's place in the world
Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Wesley delivered the Perspective Asia Lecture at the Griffith Asia Institute in Brisbane on 29 July 2010. The lecture, entitled 'Australia's place in the world', can be read here.
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Knowing me, knowing you
In this piece for the International Relations and Security Network, Fergus Hanson discusses the challenges Australia confronts in building close ties with its most important neighbour, Indonesia.
The article in available online at:
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Special-Reports/Australia-s-Regional-Reach/Analysis/
ISN, 1 September 2010
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Australia's relationships in the Asia-Pacific region
Executive Director Michael Wesley presented a speech at the ABC International Conference in Melbourne on 1 December 2009 on issues in Australia's relationships in the Asia-Pacific region.
The speech can be rerad here.
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The enduring threat of globalist terrorism
Executive Director Michael Wesley presented a speech at the Port and Maritime Terrorism Conference in Melbourne on 14 September 2009 on the enduring threat of globalist terrorism. The speech is available here.
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The silent revolution
Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Wesley presented a speech on 'The silent revolution' on 22 May 2010. The speech is available here.
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Global Encounters: Outcomes Report
On Friday, 25 June 2010, the Lowy Institute held its seventh annual New Voices conference, bringing together Australia’s leading international relations and development studies students for a discussion with practitioners working in the field. The outcomes report can be downloaded here.
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Getting China right
Michael Wesley, Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, presented the Sydney Ideas Lecture on 29 September 2009 on the topic of 'Getting China right'. The lecture can be read here.
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70th anniversary address
Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Wesley presented the 70th Anniversary Address of Radio Australia on 1 December 2009. The address is available here.
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Nurturing ideas
Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Wesley presented the keynote speech at Philanthropy Australia's Annual Meeting in Melbourne on 1 September 2010. He spoke on the topic of 'Nurturing ideas'. The speech can be read here.
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Lowy Institute Poll launch
The 2010 Lowy Institute Poll, 'Australia and the world: public opinion and foreign policy', was launched on 31 May by Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Wesley, followed by an interactive discussion with panelists Stephen Loosley, Miranda Devine and Arthur Sinodinos.
The panel discussion can be heard here:
The 2010 Lowy Institute Poll - MP3 (23MB)
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Welcome to 2010
 At at reception at the Westin Hotel on Thursday 28 January 2010, Dr Michael Wesley, Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, spoke of what we should expect in the decade ahead.
His speech can be heard here:
Welcome to 2010 - MP3 (8MB)
A video of the presentation can be watched by clicking on the photo.
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Andrew Shearer in Shanghai Oriental Morning Post
Andrew Shearer was quoted in today’s Shanghai Oriental Morning Post commenting on recent security developments in Northeast Asia, including the sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan, the ensuing combined US-South Korea naval exercises under way off the Korean Peninsula and regional concerns about China’s rapid military modernisation program.
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The APC is a dead parrot
In an opinion piece published on Caixin Online, Andrew Shearer argues that the concept of an Asia Pacific Community as proposed by Kevin Rudd is now defunct, but that Australia has a strong record of institution-building in Asia which should be continued.
Caixin Online, 20 July 2010
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Not cricket
In an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal, Andrew Shearer, Director of Studies and Senior Research Fellow at the Lowy Institute, argues that India's snub of John Howard for the International Cricket Council clearly goes against the spirit of the game.
Wall Street Journal, 3 July 2010
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Diplomacy in ruins
In an article in The Weekend Australian, Lowy Institute Research Associate Alex Oliver and Senior Research Fellow Andrew Shearer write that Australia's ability to have its voice heard overseas has been dangerously compromised.
The Australian, 27 March 2010, Inquirer p. 4
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China and the world: public opinion and foreign policy
The Lowy Institute has just released its first China Poll, a wide-ranging survey of Chinese public opinion towards a number of important international policy issues. By what do the Chinese people feel threatened? How do they feel about foreign investment from Australia, Canada and the United States? Which country do the Chinese people regard as the best place to be educated and what do they think of Australia - is it a good place to visit, a country with attractive values or is it suspicious of China?
The 2009 Lowy Institute China Poll asked a broad sample of the Chinese population these questions and others. The Poll was partly funded with the generous assistance of the MacArthur Foundation as part of the Lowy Institute’s MacArthur Foundation Asia Security Project.
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Tomorrow's China offers scope for hope as well as cause for concern
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Fergus Hanson and Andrew Shearer discuss the results of a Lowy Institute opinion survey conducted in China and what this might mean for the future of Australia-China relations and China’s role in the region.
The Australian, 2 December 2009, p. 14
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The 2009 Lowy Institute Poll
The fifth annual Lowy Institute Poll surveys Australian public opinion on a broad range of foreign policy issues. New questions this year cover the priority given to action on climate change, public attitudes towards relations with the US and China, foreign investment, asylum seekers, how to deal with Iran and perceptions about nuclear threats.
The Poll also repeated a number of questions asked in previous years, revealing important trends in Australian public opinion over the last five years.
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Distinguished Speaker Series - The Hon. Kevin Rudd MP
 On Friday, 6 November 2009, the Honourable Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia, spoke at the Lowy Institute for International Policy on 'Australia, the region and the world: the challenges ahead'.
Australia, the region and the world - MP3 (22MB)
A video of the presentation can be watched by clicking the photo above. Part 2 is available in our Video Library.
A transcript of the Prime Minister's speech is available below.
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Wary of China, neglectful of Japan and warming to the US
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Dr Michael Wesley and Fergus Hanson examine how Australians view the world, drawing on five years of Lowy Institute polling. They find Australians to be outward-looking and engaged in international affairs. The vast majority feel safe and Australians are increasingly warming towards the United States.
The Australian, 14 October 2009, p. 14
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Australia's poisoned alumni: international education and the costs to Australia
In this new Lowy Institute Policy Brief, Executive Director Michael Wesley analyses the multi-faceted international student debate. It canvasses the dynamics of the international student industry and the social, economic and criminal issues faced by international students during their time in Australia. Wesley scutinises the wide-ranging implications of the problem and considers that if left unaddressed, it is likely to worsen. The paper, with its considered and instructive policy recommendations, represents an independent and relevant contribution to the debate with Wesley forewarning the potential creation of a poisoned alumni.
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Australia's international future
In a new Lowy Institute Perspective, Michael Wesley, the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, addresses the challenges ahead for Australia and the Lowy Institute. The world after the Global Financial Crisis will be a world which asks some very searching questions of Australia’s foreign policy makers, businesspeople, and citizens. How should Australia respond to the new position of China as a key power determining the future of collective global issues? What are the challenges to Australia’s economy as posed by an increasingly knowledge-intensive and Asia-centric global economy? How will Australian society adjust to new concepts of risk and new sensitivities to systemic instability? Michael Wesley addresses these and other issues, and in doing so, outlines his vision for the Lowy Institute over the next five years.
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Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Dr Michael Wesley presentation
At the Wednesday Lowy lunch on 1 July, Dr Michael Wesley, the new Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, talked about the challenges ahead for Australia and the Lowy Institute. The world after the Global Financial Crisis will be a world which asks some very searching questions of Australia's foreign policy makers, businesspeople, and citizens. How should Australia respond to the new position of China as a key power determining the future of collective global issues? What are the challenges to Australia’s economy as posed by an increasingly knowledge-intensive and Asia-centric global economy? Michael Wesley discussed these and other issues, and in doing so, outlined his vision for the Lowy Institute over the next five years.
His presentation can be heard here:
Australia's international future - MP3 (21MB)
Video of this presentation is also available.
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China: an unfamiliar terrain
In an opinion piece in The Sydney Morning Herald, Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Wesley argues for some hard thinking on prioritising our interests in building a durable relationship with China.
Sydney Morning Herald, 26 September 2009, p. 9
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Repairing damaged ties
In an article in The Age, Sushi Das discusses Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard's visit to India in the wake of the international education crisis in Australia.
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K.C. Boey: Remember the international goodwill education engenders
An article in the New Straits Times discusses the international education debate in Australia.
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PM announces new strategic relationship with the ANU
At the annual Burgmann College Lecture at the ANU, the Prime Minister talked about the government's plan for an education revolution. In his speech, he referred to Michael Wesley's paper on Asian language study in Australia.
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Crisis blamed on the regulators
Andrew Trounson writes in the Australian newspaper about the crisis in Australia's international education, reviewing the recently launched Lowy Institute policy brief on the issue. Vice Chancellor of RMIT, Professor Margaret Gardner, places the responsibility on recent private education providers and not the university sector.
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Student crisis taints Aussie
An article in Singapore's Straits Times discusses the Lowy Institute Policy Brief on the crisis in Australia's international education sector.
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Think tank: Student crisis 'poisoning' Australia's reputation
An article in the Star (Malaysia) discusses the impact of attacks on overseas students and education provider collapses on Australia's international reputation.
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Racism 'poisoning' Australia's reputation
An article in the Manila Times discusses the Institute's recent Policy Brief on overseas education in Australia.
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Overseas students to rally for better deal
The Policy Brief "Australia's poisoned alumni" was discussed in this article by Higher Education Reporter Health Gilmore about the crisis in international education and tighter Federal laws governing education providers.
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Michael Wesley interviewed about international education crisis
Michael Wesley was interviewed on the ABC Radio 'AM' program about the crisis in international education in Australia, and its impact on Australia's relations with India and China.
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Australia's diplomatic deficit
Australia's Diplomatic Deficit is the report of a Blue Ribbon Panel convened by the Lowy Institute to examine Australia's overseas network – the first public review in over 20 years. The report argues that Australia's diplomatic network is seriously overstretched and hollowed out and recommends a major, staged reinvestment to ensure Australia is in a position to prosecute its growing international interests properly. The Panel comprised Jillian Broadbent AO, Professor William Maley AM, Brad Orgill, Professor Peter Shergold AC, Ric Smith AO PSM and the Institute’s Executive Director, Allan Gyngell, as chairman.
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Networked
On Thursday 11 June 2009, the Lowy Institute held its sixth annual New Voices conference for early and mid-career professionals, which this year discussed networks. The outcomes report can be downloaded here.
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Blue Ribbon Panel Report launch
The Lowy Institute Blue Ribbon Panel Report, 'Australia’s diplomatic deficit: reinvesting in our instruments of international policy', is the first major public review of Australia’s diplomatic network in over 20 years. Here, members of the Panel speak at the launch of the report on Wednesday 18 March 2009.
The Panel: Jillian Broadbent AO, Professor William Maley AM, Brad Orgill, Professor Peter Shergold AC, Ric Smith AO PSM and Allan Gyngell (Chairman).
Panel members can be heard here:
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The speaker support is available here:
Australia's diplomatic deficit - PPT (7MB)
Video of the launch is also available.
Videos from past events are now available in the Video Library.
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The responsibility to protect
In the March 2009 edition of the Australian Book Review, the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, Allan Gyngell, reviews The Responsibility to Protect: End Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All, a new book by Gareth Evans. The book is an account of the emergence of a new international norm – the responsibility to protect.
Australian Book Review, March 2009
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Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Fergus Hanson presentation
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 11 February 2009, Fergus Hanson examined the Australian government’s current 'no policy' approach to the probability that suspected war criminals are living in Australia and looked at options for dealing with the problem.
His presentation can be heard here:
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Confronting reality: responding to war criminals living in Australia
In this Policy Brief, Fergus Hanson looks at the Australian government's current approach to suspected war criminals living here. It finds Australia has inadvertently become a safe haven for suspected war criminals and needs to do more to meet its international obligations to end impunity for the world's worst criminal offenders. It suggests a number of modest reforms the Rudd government could implement to meet its election commitment that suspected war criminals be brought to justice.
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Canada's war crimes trial
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Research Fellow Fergus Hanson argues that there is a growing awareness among states that ending impunity for war crimes requires an integrated approach where national courts support and supplement international war crimes trials, and that to be a part of that effort dedicated domestic war crimes units are essential, with trials one possible outcome of their investigations.
The Australian, 4 June 2009, p. 14
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Rudd erodes diplomacy
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Executive Director Allan Gyngell argues for more investment in the instruments of Australia's international policy.
The Australian, 18 March 2009, p. 14
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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 Minister's own contributions to it and what questions it raises for the future.
His presentation can be heard here:
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A video can be seen on Slow TV at http://www.themonthly.com.au/tm/node/1378
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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 is different about this financial crisis from the seven previous crises of the deregulated era spanning the past thirty years, and the lessons we can draw from it.
Ian Macfarlane was Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia from 1996 to 2006. He has been a director of the Lowy Institute since its inception.
The 2008 Lowy Lecture can be heard here:
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A video can be seen on Slow TV at: http://www.themonthly.com.au/tm/node/1371
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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:
The role of think tanks in Australia - MP3 (21MB)
A video can be seen on Slow TV at: http://www.themonthly.com.au/tm/node/1383
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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:
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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:
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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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