Event - Lowy Lecture Series: Aligned Allies: The Australia-Japan strategic partnership

Despite much fretting from the Australian strategic commentariat, over the last decade Japan and Australia have developed a security partnership second only in depth to their respective alliance relationships with the United States. Under Prime Minister Abbott and Prime Minister Abe, the partnership has and likely will continue to deepen and broaden.

On 19 February 2015 the Lowy Institute hosted a panel discussion on this strategic partnership, with Dr Malcolm Cook, Murray McLean AO, and moderated by Dr Merriden Varrall.

Dr Malcolm Cook is a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. Malcolm was the Lowy Institute's inaugural East Asia program director from 2003 to 2010. He now works at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. more >

Murray McLean AO is a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. He focuses on China, Japan, and associated regional issues. Much of his career has been spent on the formulation of Australian policy towards Asia, with a particular focus on China, Japan and Korea. more >

Dr Merriden Varrall is Director of the East Asia Program at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. Before joining the Lowy Institute, Merriden was the Assistant Country Director and Senior Policy Advisor at UNDP China, where she worked for the past three years on China's role in the world, focusing on its international development cooperation policy. more >

Click here to view the report, Aligned Allies: The Australia-Japan Strategic Partnership, by Malcolm Cook and Thomas Wilkins, published by the Tokyo Foundation.