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.

The Asia-Pacific in 2019: What to Expect
Commentary
The Asia-Pacific in 2019: What to Expect
Daniel Flitton on “A one horse race”. Originally published in The Diplomat.
Responses to Australia’s Israel capital decision
Responses to Australia’s Israel capital decision
How the world reacted to Scott Morrison’s decision to formally recognise West Jerusalem Israel’s capital.
Australia jostles over its Iran policy
Australia jostles over its Iran policy
The Jerusalem embassy debate has overshadowed a potential shift in Australia’s longstanding independent stance on Iran.
What went wrong? Taiwan fails to legalise same-sex marriage
What went wrong? Taiwan fails to legalise same-sex marriage
Foreign influence helped scupper a bid to be the first Asian nation to formally legalise gay marriage.
US midterms: the no-joke elections
US midterms: the no-joke elections
Is anything short of a punishing defeat for Republicans actually an endorsement of Donald Trump?
Australia: The Morrison Way
Commentary
Australia: The Morrison Way
The summit circuit approaches and Australia’s new prime minister will take his one-man leadership show on the road. Originally published in The Diplomat.
A strange complacency
Commentary
A strange complacency
Daniel Flitton reviews The Four Flashpoints: How Asia goes to war by Brendan Taylor. Originally published in the Australian Book Review.
Australia’s Israel-Palestine conflict
Australia’s Israel-Palestine conflict
This is actually one of those rare issues in Australian foreign policy where the two major parties quite often disagree.
The world won’t wait for Scott Morrison
The world won’t wait for Scott Morrison
After an extraordinary week at home, the new PM will need to contend with a pressing international calendar.
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