Into Africa
The international resource boom has spurred a hunt for new mineral and hydrocarbon reserves, and an important new frontier in this search is Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Australian resource companies are now spending tens of billions of dollars on exploration and development, and engineering and service companies are clinching billions of dollars of contracts, across SSA. In a new Lowy Institute Paper, Roger Donnelly and Benjamin Ford describe how Africa now matters much more to corporate Australia, assess the drivers and dimensions of the SSA resource boom, and examine some of the implications for Australian companies and Australian public policy.
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| What makes a terrorist? |
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Dr Adam Dolnik presentation At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 27 August 2008, rising terrorism specialist Dr Adam Dolnik looked at the successes and failures of the field of terrorism studies, and offered some explanations about why people become terrorists.
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| Stephen Grenville opinion piece |
Overcoming corruption is Indonesia's challenge In an opinion piece in The Australian Financial Review, Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Stephen Grenville, writing that there are hints that Indonesia may finally be starting to deal with its culture of bribery, offers suggestions for change.
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| American journeys |
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Don Watson presentation At the Wednesday Lowy Lunch on 20 August 2008, Don Watson, one of Australia's most distinguished writers and public speakers, explored themes in his latest book, 'American Journeys', a narrative of the modern USA. He talked about the genius, optimism and...
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| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards |
Bill Bowtell on shortlist for literary award Bill Bowtell, Director of the Lowy Institute's HIV/AIDS Project, has been shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards in the Science Writer section for his essay entitled 'Applying the paradox of prevention: eradicate HIV' which was published in...
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Star power fades when it comes to politics
In an opinion piece in The Sydney Morning Herald, Michael Fullilove analyses the place of celebrities in politics and in the U.S. election campaign.
Sydney Morning Herald, 21 August 2008, p. 13
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China's struggle for power
In the Griffith-Lowy Institute Project's first publication, Prof. Xu Yi-chong analyses the mounting challenges facing the Chinese power sector and the fate of recent reform efforts. The mixed results of these recent reforms highlight the political and administrative difficulties facing the central government in managing the transition to a market-based economy. With Australian coal and LNG exports to China a growing part of our single largest trading relationship, the future of China's power sector is of great interest to Australia as it is to the future trajectory of China's rapidly growing economy.
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Northeast Asia's territorial disputes
On 15 August, Hankook llbo, a leading newspaper in South Korea, published an opinion piece by Malcolm Cook analysing the recent territorial dispute between South Korea and Japan over the islets the Koreans call Dokdo. The Korean version of the opinion piece can be downloaded here together with the English-language original.
Hankook llbo, 15 August 2008, p. 31
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China's support of Fiji is doing little to help ordinary Fijians
In an opinion piece in The Age, Lowy Institute Research Associate Fergus Hanson argues that in its attempt to keep Taiwan at bay, China is behaving irresponsibly.
The Age, 22 August 2008, p. 13
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Lowy Institute Blue Ribbon Panel
The Lowy Institute has convened a Blue Ribbon Panel comprising eminent Australians from diverse backgrounds in government, the private sector and academia to review how well placed Australia's instruments of international policy are to adapt to a rapidly changing global environment.
Please see the accompanying media release for more information.
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Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Donnelly and Ford presentation
On 13 August at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, the authors of a new Lowy Institute Paper on the importance to Australia of the resources boom in Sub-Saharan Africa, Roger Donnelly and Benjamin Ford, launched their Paper, entitled 'Into Africa'.
Their presentation can be heard here:
Into Africa - MP3 (17MB)
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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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Big profits, losses out of Africa
Roger Donnelly and Ben Ford, authors of a new Lowy Institute Paper entitled 'Into Africa: how the resource book is making Sub-Saharan Africa more important to Australia', explain the significance of Australian resource companies' investment in Sub-Saharan Arica.
A version of this piece was published in
The Australian Financial Review, 13 August 2008, p. 63
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So what? Matching policy to Australian interests in West Asia
In a new Lowy institute Policy Brief, West Asia Program Director Anthony Bubalo argues that the evolution of Australian policy in West Asia (the Middle East and Southwest Asia) has lagged behind the maturation of Australian interests in this part of the world. 'So what? Matching policy to Australian interests in West Asia' discusses new elements to a reinvigorated policy framework, including an enhanced dialogue with key regional leaders, a strategic partnership with one or two key countries, the strengthening of non-military cooperation, the leveraging of the growing regional economic role of the Gulf to promote Australian trade, the greater use of multilateral and second-track diplomacy on issues such as energy security and Afghanistan, a greater on-the-ground development presence and an expanded national capacity to analyse and assess regional developments.
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Hawk vs talk: America's foreign policy choice
In this op-ed published in the Financial Times on 7 August 2008, Dr Michael Fullilove describes the foreign policy choice facing Americans in the forthcoming presidential election (and how experts usually get this question wrong).
Financial Times, 7 August 2008, p. 9
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Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Dr Richard Rigby presentation
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 6 August, Dr Richard Rigby, the Executive Director of the ANU China Institute, spoke about the rise of China and how the forthcoming Olympics provide some indicators — both positive and negative — of how China is travelling, and how one way or another these will have their own impact on what sort of China it is with which our own future is linked.
His presentation, 'Rising China on the eve of the Olympics', can be heard here:
Rising China on the eve of the Olympics - MP3 (21MB)
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Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Ambassador Martin Indyk presentation
As the George W Bush Presidency draws to a close, attention is increasingly focused on the likely policies of his successor, particularly in the Middle East. The Lowy Institute was pleased to present at the Wednesday Lowy Lunch on 30 July 2008 a speaker eminently qualified to address this critical topic, Ambassador Martin S. Indyk.
Ambassador Indyk is a Director on the Board of the Lowy Institute for International Policy. He is the Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, and a former US Ambassador to Israel.
His presentation, 'US Middle East policy under a new president', can be heard here:
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Distinguished Speaker Series - The Hon. Stephen Smith MP presentation
On Friday, 18 July the Lowy Institute was honoured to host a speech in our Distinguished Speaker Series by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon. Stephen Smith MP.
The focus of the Minister's presentation was on the Government's thinking about Australia's evolving engagement in our region. Recognising that the Asia-Pacific will always be critically important to Australia's strategic and economic interests, the Minister spoke about the Government's policies to ensure, through bilateral, regional and multilateral cooperation, that we are collectively well placed to advance our common interests and respond to the challenges ahead.
The Minister's presentation can be heard here:
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Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Anthony Bubalo presentation
At the Wednesday Lowy Lunch on 23 July 2008, Anthony Bubalo surveyed the evolving strategic, political and economic landscape in West Asia, a region stretching from Pakistan and Afghanistan across to the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. Bubalo explored how key regional issues and developments, from the nuclear standoff with Iran to the growing financial power of the Persian Gulf's 'city states', will impact on Australian interests in this critical region in the years to come.
His presentation, 'Peace, proliferation and petrol prices: Threats, opportunities and Australian policy in West Asia' can be heard here:
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Common wealth: economics for a crowded planet
On 14 July, the Lowy Institute hosted a dinner for the globally renowned economist and author Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs. Professor Sachs discussed the current global energy, climate, and food crises and the world's sustainable development challenges as outlined in his new book 'Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet'.
Professor Sachs' presentation can be heard here:
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Foreign investment in Australia and China
A surge in Chinese investment into Australia's resource sector has been making headlines in recent weeks. On 4 July, in conjunction with the Australia China Business Council and Monash University, the Lowy Institute participated in a forum on The Changing Global Financial Environment: Implications for Foreign Investment in Australia and China. The forum, which was also addressed by the Federal Treasurer, the Hon Wayne Swann MP, covered several topical policy issues including the evolving international financial environment; the rise of sovereign wealth funds and state-owned enterprise foreign investment; foreign investment in the Australian resource sector during the current resources boom; and growing Chinese outward investment and the Australia-China relationship. For more information about the conference, please see the Outcomes Report.
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