‘Troubled Thailand’, Dr Milton Osborne, Lowy Lecture Series
For the past few weeks our TV news and newspaper front pages have shown us chaotic images from downtown Bangkok. These pictures and the violent political tensions they portray run ...
‘U.S. engagement with a rising China’, Dr Robert Sutter, Lowy Lecture Series
Based on research including consultations with 180 officials in ten Asia-Pacific countries over the past six years, this careful and balanced assessment of the strengths and limita...
‘The Pacific Islands and the World: Realising the Pacific's Potential’. Keynote Address by Executive Director Michael Wesley
The outcomes report from the 'The Pacific Islands & the World: Realising the Pacific's Potential' conference has been released. It summarises the main discussion ge...
‘Why the Pacific matters’, Richard Marles, Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs, Lowy Lecture Series
The future of the Pacific matters deeply to Australia – it is our neighbourhood and our roots run deep. Australia is working with the region to help confront significant chal...
Distinguished Speaker Series: NSW and India: people and partnerships - Hon. Barry O'Farrell MP
In an address to the Lowy Institute on 9 December 2011, the Premier of New South Wales, Mr Barry O'Farrell, set out his vision for building strong economic and societal links b...
Distinguished Speaker Series: 21st century diplomacy - Dennis Richardson presentation
On 30 August 2011 in Canberra, at a special event in the Lowy Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series, Mr Dennis Richardson, AO, Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs...
The Pacific President comes to Australia
The White House announced that US President Barack Obama will visit Australia in mid November to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Australia-US alliance.At the Food for Thoug...
Lowy Lecture Series - Professor Nicholas Tarling presentation
On 19 October 2011, in the Lowy Lecture Series, Professor Nicholas Tarling reviewed some of the legacies, actual and perceived, of the pre-colonial and colonial periods to the post...
Lowy Lecture Series: Foreign policy opinion polling: A case study from Fiji
On 7 December 2011, Caz Tebbutt, Managing Director of Tebbutt Research, which conducted the Lowy Institute's poll in Fiji, delivered the Lowy Lecture on opinion polling in Fiji...
Lowy Lecture Series: The future of American military strategy: back to the big wars? - Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman
With the US out of Iraq and on its way out of Afghanistan American military strategy may be reverting back to large war scenarios for its future planning. The lecture will consider...