Daniel Flitton

Managing Editor, The Interpreter
Daniel Flitton
Biography
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Daniel Flitton is one of Australia’s most experienced foreign affairs journalists and is now Managing Editor of the Lowy Institute’s international magazine, The Interpreter.

Before joining the Institute, he was diplomatic editor and senior correspondent at The Age in Melbourne and was posted as a political correspondent in the parliament house bureau in Canberra. Daniel previously worked as an analyst for the Office of National Assessments, Australia’s peak intelligence assessment agency. He has held academic positions at the Australian National University and at Deakin University, where he developed a breadth of knowledge on Asia, the Middle East, and the Pacific. As a Fulbright scholar in 2004, he researched the Australia–United States alliance at Georgetown University in Washington DC.

Best of The Interpreter 2019: Your most read
Best of The Interpreter 2019: Your most read
From a big year in politics and diplomacy, revealing the 10 most popular Interpreter articles of 2019.
Favourites of 2019: Slow Horses on Spook Street
Favourites of 2019: Slow Horses on Spook Street
What better way to understand the upside-down world of today than with fiction masquerading as fact?
Are our politicians a security risk?
Commentary
Are our politicians a security risk?
Should spooks vet the reliability of parliamentarians? It is not clear that doing so would benefit our democracy. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review. Daniel…
Victoria takes the initiative with China
Victoria takes the initiative with China
For reasons perhaps best known to himself, the premier has re-upped the state’s agreement on Belt and Road.
Trump’s troop withdrawal and what’s next for Islamic State
Trump’s troop withdrawal and what’s next for Islamic State
Having pre-emptively declared the militant group “100% defeated”, the pull back from Syria raises different threats.
Donald Trump's bizarre logic damages US allies' trust in intelligence sharing
Commentary
Donald Trump's bizarre logic damages US allies' trust in intelligence sharing
The US president appears to believe Australian spies are part of a deep-state conspiracy. Australia should be wary of the risks of getting drawn into his defence. Originally…
Jumping at shadows: The great Aussie conspiracy to bring down Donald
Jumping at shadows: The great Aussie conspiracy to bring down Donald
Australian spies among three US treaty-allies in an elaborate plot to derail the Trump campaign? Yeah, that’ll fly.
Trump, Morrison, the media, and hearing what you want to hear
Trump, Morrison, the media, and hearing what you want to hear
The danger for journalists in normalising dealing with the President applies just as much to his bilateral counterparts.
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