'Getting a grip on nature: valuing biodiversity and its human health dimensions' Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Dr Aaron Bernstein presentation
Halting biodiversity loss requires rethinking how humans do business with the biosphere. Innovation is needed in accounting of the goods and services nature provides humanity. Dr A...
'Progress towards effective global action on climate change' Professor Ross Garnaut address
In an address at the Lowy Institute on 7 February, Professor Ross Garnaut launched his second Update Paper, 'Progress towards effective global action on climate change', wh...
Analysing 'A Careful War'
'A Careful War’ was a compelling two-part documentary program which appeared on the ABC’s Four Corners earlier this month. Distinguished reporter Chris Masters unde...
'Is there an 'Obama Doctrine' in US foreign policy?' Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Peter Beinart presentation
A number of US presidents have come to be associated – whether or not it is strictly historically accurate – with certain foreign policy approaches.Can we identify an &...
'ANZUS beyond 60: a different alliance in a different Asia' Lowy Lecture Series - Professor Hugh White presentation
For many people, questions about the future of ANZUS hardly arise. They believe that after 60 years, the alliance endures as the inevitable and unchangeable foundation of Australia...
'Getting grips with climate change: building on experience' Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Professor Michael Grubb presentation
On Monday 11 April, Professor Michael Grubb of the University of Cambridge addressed the Lowy Lunch Club on the climate change 'policy triad' of technology, pricing and ene...
Lowy Lecture Series: Obama in Australia - Peter Hartcher, Nick Bryant, Dr Michael Fullilove presentations
After several stops and starts, Barack Obama will arrive in Australia next week for his first visit as President of the United States. What should Australians expect from this visi...
Entering Australia's age of uncertainty
In the Food for Thought series in Canberra, Malcolm Cook, Director of the Lowy Institute’s East Asia program, and Hugh White, a Visiting Fellow at the Institute and head of t...
'China Changing Lecture 2011' Professor Wang Gungwu presentation
On the evening of 17 March, the Lowy Institute was very pleased to host a lecture by Professor Wang Gungwu entitled 'US and China: Respect and Equality'. The evolving US-Ch...
'How China views the world'
How do China's leaders and political elites view the world? What kind of an international role would they like China to assume? At our Food for Thought on Friday 29 April, the ...