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 ...
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy: New foreign policy actors in China - Linda Jakobson presentation
In China today, a cacophony of voices urges decision-makers to pursue a variety of foreign policies. As China’s society diversifies and as China’s interdependence with ...
'A confident and growing Indonesia: new opportunities for Australia' Lowy Lecture Series - Josh Frydenberg presentation
Indonesia's strong economic growth and emerging leadership in the region are creating new opportunities for Australia to deepen its political, economic and strategic ties with ...
'How the future state of the world will shape Australia's aid program' - Lowy Lecture Series - Panellists' presentations
At the Lowy Lecture Series on 20 July, a high-level panel, with Sandy Hollway AO, Jack De Groot and Rowan Callick, considered how well Australia's aid program is placed to resp...
Stemming the 'evil flowers' - Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Brigadier Phil Winter presentation
In Afghanistan, Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) are now the number one killer of coalition forces, and the 2009 campaigning season is seeing a record number of IED attacks. At ...
'The future of Special Forces' Lowy Lecture Series - Brigadier Roger Noble presentation
At the Lowy Lecture on 9 November 2011, Brigadier Roger Noble outlined long-term factors which should guide the way the ADF structures Special Operations Command. Brigadier Roger N...
Wednesday Lunch at Lowy - Colonel John Angevine presentation
At the Wednesday Lunch on 1 June, Colonel John Angevine spoke via video link at the Lowy Institute to discuss his Lowy Institute paper that reviews Australia’s defence strate...