Transcript of the Hon Julia Gillard MP, the Prime Minister of Australia, address to the Lowy Institute on launch of 'Australia in the Asian Century' White Paper
Acting Director for the Lowy Institute's Melanesia Program, Annmaree O’Keeffe, spoke at the Club de Madrid’s Asia Pacific Forum held in Tahiti on July 7 2012. Her address looked at the increased level of aid being invested in the Pacific and asked the question whether this was a competition
At the press conference annoucing the establishment of a G20 Studies Centre at the Lowy Institute, Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Fullilove gave a short statement statement thanking the Federal Government for their support and outlined the importance of the G20 to Australia.&
Executive Director Michael Wesley's keynote speech to the Griffith University-Peking University Australia-China Emerging Leaders Dialogue Canberra, 23 May 2012
Relations between Australia and India have advanced impressively over the past decade. Yet in some ways the ties between these two democracies have continued to fall short of their great potential. This state of affairs provided the background for a major dialogue held in Sydney in late 2011.&
Final submissions in Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Inquiry into Australia's overseas representation were published by the Committee on 8 May 2012. In their final submissions, Alex Oliver and Fergus Hanson answer further questions from
In an article for Foreignpolicy.com's Argument section, Lowy Institute Research Fellow Fergus Hanson asks whether the State Department's ambitious new plan to subvert autocratic regimes online can actually succeed.The article can be read here
Research Fellows Fergus Hanson and Alex Oliver, together with Andrew Shearer as co-author of the 2011 report Diplomatic Disrepair: Rebuilding Australia’s international policy infrastructure, appeared on Friday 17 February 2012 at the hearing of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs
Dr Michael Fullilove, Program Director Global Issues, contributed a section on Australia to a Brookings Institution online symposium on the G-20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting to be held in Mexico.The Symposium is online here
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Anthony Bubalo, Program Director West Asia, writes that any US military confrontation with Iran in the Gulf would quickly underline the need for Australia to view its ties in the region in a similar way.The Australian, 1 February 2012, p. 10
In an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review, Lowy Institute Professorial Fellow Warwick McKibbin writes that Australia is risking its future prosperity by adopting Europe's fatally flawed policies.Australian Financial Review, 6 February 2012, p. 54
In an opinion piece in The Jakarta Globe, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White writes on the role of the Australia-US alliance in the Asian Century.Jakarta Globe, 21 February 2012 
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Dr Michael Fullilove, Program Director Global Issues, writes that in the context of a rising China, downgrading our ties with the United States is risky.The Australian, 28 February 2012, p. 10 
In an opinion piece in The Sydney Morning Herald, Dr Dave McRae, Research Fellow in the East Asia program at the Lowy Institute, writes that the Australian government must signal its opposition to all executions in Indonesia, even when it is unpopular at home.Sydney Morning Herald, 2 March 2012, p.
In an opinion piece in The Age, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White writes that positioning Australia between the United States and China will be Foreign Minister Bob Carr's greatest challenge.The Age, 6 March 2012, p. 13 
In an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review, Lowy Institute Professorial Fellow Warwick McKibbin writes that the Australian government must act to reduce the carbon price or face the economic fallout.Australian Financial Review, 7 March 2012, p. 63
Policies separately announced by the government and opposition over the past six months toward Indonesia suggest Australia has a form of bipolar disorder, which makes it usually oblivious to its external circumstances and socially passive, but prone to unpredictable mood swings, leading to sudden
The application of the death penalty by Australia's Southeast Asian neighbours recurrently strains bilateral relations. Lowy Institute Research Fellow Dr Dave McRae examines Indonesia's stance on the death penalty and the prospects for abolition in Australia's key regional neighbour. 
Dr Michael Wesley, Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, sent an end of year message to friends and supporters of our work in 2011, and offered some thoughts on what to watch out for in 2012
In this article for the website China-US Focus, the Lowy Institute’s Rory Medcalf takes a sceptical look at claims that President Obama’s visit to Australia was part of a strategy to 'contain' China’s rise. Click here to access the full article
In this opinion piece in The Age newspaper, the Lowy Institute’s Rory Medcalf addresses the common non-proliferation criticisms of possible Australian uranium sales to India. He writes that, on balance, a policy change at the December 2011 Australian Labor Party conference would build a new
In a post on Cogitasia, a leading blog hosted by the US think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Dr Malcolm Cook (Dean of International Studies at Flinders University) and the Institute’s Director of Studies Andrew Shearer highlight how and why the progressive Asia policy
In this article for Foreign Policy.com, the Lowy Institute’s Rory Medcalf outlines the Asia-Pacific strategic vision behind Obama’s historic 2011 speech in Canberra – but also suggests that more could have been done to prepare most Australians for such a declaration.The article can
On the day of US President Barack Obama’s visit to Darwin, Australia in November 2011, Andrew Shearer writes in the Wall Street Journal about the Obama/Gillard announcement of plans to base US marines in Darwin, and examines the controversy surrounding this significant expansion of America’s
The 2011 Lowy Lecture was delivered by Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times, who visited Australia as a guest of the Institute. In his lecture, 'Asia's Rise, the West's Fall?' delivered on 17 November, Barber examined the implications of Asia's rise for the world and offered some
In this opinion piece in The Australian, the Lowy Institute's Rory Medcalf argues that Australia has an opportunity to work closely with the United States as it makes a three-fold strategic pivot: from the Middle East to Asia, from an Asia-Pacific to an Indo-Pacific concept, and towards more
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
In an opinion piece in The Age, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White writes that young Australians in their thousands should be sent to Asia to learn the languages.The Age, 8 November 2011, p. 13
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
In an opinion piece in The Age, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Hugh White writes that Australia's big mining companies need to take a stand on geopolitical hazards.The Age, 25 October 2011, p. 11
Indonesia's strong economic growth and emerging leadership in the region are creating new opportunities for Australia to deepen its political, economic and strategic ties with our close and important neighbour. With an economy expected to double in size over the next fifteen years, Indonesia is now
On Tuesday 11 October 2011, as part of the Lowy Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series, Mr Peter Baxter, Director General of AusAID, discussed Australia's aid program and the critical role of development aid in an increasingly interconnected global community. Mr Baxter answered the critics of the
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 about Asia as a geopolitical
In this op-ed in The Australian, the Lowy Institute’s Rory Medcalf, convener of the Australia-India Roundtable, teams with leading Indian foreign policy commentator Raja Mohan to propose a way forward in Australia-India relations. Australia should sell uranium to India and India needs to get
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
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Research Associate Ashley Townshend and Shashank Joshi, an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, London, write that the Varyag, China's first aircraft carrier, is on a course to national pride.The Australian, 6 September 2011,
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:
Thursday 1st September marks a major milestone in Australia’s foreign policy history: it is 60 years since the signing of the historic ANZUS security treaty at the height of the Cold War. To mark this major event, the Lowy Institute for International Policy is hosting a range of events and
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
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
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
This comprehensive 2011 study revisits the influential 2009 Lowy Institute report Australia’s Diplomatic Deficit, and warns that Australia’s chronically underfunded and overstretched overseas diplomatic network risks Australia’s global security and standing. Despite some positive developments
At the Lowy Lecture on 25 August 2011, Michael Wesley outlined the components of Asia's stability and the different investments of the region's countries in that stability. He examined the several aspects of change in Asia's strategic order which are profoundly disturbing to the region's stability,
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
September 2011 marked 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 this 2011 Perspectives paper, Andrew Shearer examines the challenges
This report, commissioned by Qantas, examines the major strategic, economic and social trends that will shape Asia over the next decades. It describes three major trends: a profound realignment in the relationship between societies’ size and wealth; a deepening integration between Asia’s sub-
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
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
By Rowan Callick, Annmaree O’Keeffe, Jack de Groot, Sandy Hollway
In January 2011, the Australian Government’s Independent Panel to Review Aid commissioned the Lowy Institute to undertake a study of the future state of the world and its potential impact on the government’s aid program. The report, written against the background of a strong focus by the
By Lowy Institute for International Policy, Michael Wesley, Annmaree O’Keeffe, Jenny Hayward-Jones, Mark Thirlwell