News and Media

Anthony Bubalo, Program Director West Asia, was interviewed on ABC Radio National's Saturday Extra program on the spreading violence in Libya and Arab anger at the film that has outraged the Muslim world.

Rowan Callick, writing in The Australian on the Australia-China relationship, quotes Linda Jakobson, Program Director East Asia.

Writing for CNN on speculation about the 'disappearance' weeks before a major Communist Party congress of Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Steven Jiang and Hilary Whiteman quote Linda Jakobson, Program Director East Asia.

In an article in The Daily Telegraph on the increase in the use of private security on commercial shipping, Tory Shepherd quotes James Brown, a Military Fellow at the Lowy Institute, and his new Analysis, Pirates and privateers: managing the Indian Ocean's private security boom.

In an article in The Guardian on Beijing's refusal to explain the whereabouts of the China's vice-president and heir apparent Xi Jinping, Tania Branigan quotes Linda Jakobson, Program Director East Asia.

An AFP story in The West Australian reports on a speech to the Lowy Institute by Chilean President Sebastian Pinera on Monday 10 September 2012.

In an article in The Sydney Morning Herald on an online poll of 1000 Australians which found 72 per cent would vote for the Democrats' Barack Obama and just 5 per cent for the Republicans' Mitt Romney, Peter Hartcher quotes findings from the 2008 Lowy Institute Poll on public opinion and foreign policy.

In an article in International Business Times on the significance of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's attendance at the Pacific Islands Forum, Maya Schwayder quotes Annmaree O'Keeffe, Acting Program Director of The Myer Foundation Melanesia program.

Anne Barrowclough, writing in The Times on US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's statements at the Pacific Islands Forum, quotes a Lowy Institute Policy Brief by Fergus Hanson and Mary Fifita, China in the Pacific: the new banker in town.

An article on US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's remarks at the Pacific Islands Forum on rivalry in the South Pacific region quotes a Lowy Institute Policy Brief by Fergus Hanson and Mary Fifita, China in the Pacific: the new banker in town.

Writing in The Straits Times, Nilanjana Sengupta quotes a speech by Rory Medcalf, Program Director International Security, at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (Asia), in which Mr Medcalf noted there were several reasons for governments, including Australia, to correct their expectations of India.

In an article in The Straits Times, Jonathan Pearlman discusses the debate sparked by the launch of a controversial new book by Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow, Hugh White, who says the US must be ready to share power in the region with China and Australia must accept China's larger role. The China choice was launched at the Lowy Institute by Paul Keating.

In an article in The Telegraph on female troops serving in combat roles, Ian McPhedran quotes Lowy Institute Military Fellow, James Brown.

An article in Islands Business about how China and the United States are both preparing to send powerful delegations to the Pacific Islands Forum in the Cook Islands later this month quotes Annmaree O'Keeffe, acting Director of The Myer Foundation Melanesia program.

Lowy Institute Non-resident Fellow Dr Rodger Shanahan was interviewed on Radio National's Drive program on the current conflict in Syria and the security of Syria's chemical weapons program.

Anthony Bubalo, Program Director West Asia, was interviewed on ABC News 24's Weekend Breakfast program on growing sectarian violence in Syria and other Middle East countries.

Lowy Institute Non-resident Fellow Rodger Shanahan was interviewed on 2SER's Razor's Edge program on a push for an inquiry into the decisions leading to Australia's involvement in the US-led war in Iraq in 2003.

Ben Butler, in an article in the Canberra Times on Asian investment in Australia to secure raw materials, quotes the Lowy Institute Poll on public opinion and foreign policy.

Tony Walker, writing in The Australian Financial Review on the recommendations for Australia's policies on asylum seekers from Angus Houston and the expert panel, quotes the 2010 Lowy Institute Poll on public opinion and foreign policy.

In an article in The Australian Financial Review on the political and strategic relationship between the United States and China, Brian Toohey quotes a speech to the Lowy Institute on 9 August 2012 by Defence Minister Stephen Smith.

Paul Kelly, writing in The Australian on implications for the Australian government of the rising competition between China and the United States, quotes Paul Keating's comments to the Lowy Institute at the launch of Hugh White's new book. The China choice: why America should share power.

In an article in The Canberra Times on the poor public image of politicians, Nick Dyrenfurth quotes the 2012 Lowy Institute Poll on public opinion and foreign policy.

Writing in The Washington Post on the disputed islands and islets in Asia, Chico Harlan quotes Rory Medcalf, Program Director International Security.