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Past Lowy Institute interns have gone on to secure prestigious positions in international policy, including jobs at think tanks in the United States and Australia, a cadetship with the Sydney Morning Herald and a Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford. Lowy Institute interns have also been highly successful in winning graduate traineeships with Australian Government departments: four interns were offered positions in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's 2008 graduate trainee intake.

Gary Barnabo

Marcus Bartley Johns

Danielle Cave

Edward Cohen

Emily Crawford

Chris Croke

Laura Crommelin

Sarah Egan

Mary Fifita

Fergus Green

Evian Gutman

John Hardy

Stephen Holden

David R. Howell

Isabelle Kremer

Tim Lindenmayer

Rosita MacDonald

Claudia Mangel

Kate Mason

Rhys Mugdan

Meia Nouwens

Veerle Nouwens

Monty Pounder

Gobie Rajalingam

Oonagh Savdie

Melanie Sebastian

Martin Symonds

Shuyin Tang

Manny Waks

Orli Zahava

Mr Alistair Thornton

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The 2010 Lowy Institute Poll

The sixth annual Lowy Institute Poll surveys Australian public opinion on a range of foreign policy issues. New questions this year cover the Rudd Government’s handling of foreign policy issues during its first term in office, whether Australia should develop nuclear weapons, attitudes towards Indonesia and US power, sanctions against Fiji and the morality of Australia’s foreign policy.

The Poll also repeated questions asked in previous years, revealing trends in public opinion on topics such as climate change, Australia’s military involvement in Afghanistan, and attitudes towards the United States and China.

A panel discussion about the poll can be heard here:
The 2010 Lowy Institute Poll - MP3 (23MB)Download item (1.3MB)

Power and choice: Asian security futures

Recent events in the seas off South Korea and Japan emphasise the fragility of Asia’s security order and the strains the region’s changing power distribution are placing on it. A new major Lowy Institute Asia Security Project report, 'Power and Choice: Asian Security Futures', analyses the likely security futures for Asia and Australia and recommends steps countries should take to ensure growing regional competition does not lead to conflict. This report was made possible by the generous support for the Project by the MacArthur Foundation.

A copy of the report, launched by Dennis Richardson, AO, the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on 1 June, can be downloaded here.Download item (6.5MB)