Podcast Library

The Lowy Institute Podcast Library includes all available podcasts of presentations by Lowy Institute staff and by visiting experts.

It contains presentations in the popular Wednesday Lunch at Lowy series, the Institute’s Distinguished Speaker Series, and Lowy Institute lectures such as the annual Lowy Lecture on Australia in the World and the Australia-India Strategic Lecture.

The library contains recordings since March 2006.

The Lowy Institute Podcast URL is:
http://lowyinstitute.org/podcast/All.xml

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China and the world: public opinion and foreign policy

The Lowy Institute has just released its first China Poll, a wide-ranging survey of Chinese public opinion towards a number of important international policy issues. By what do the Chinese people feel threatened? How do they feel about foreign investment from Australia, Canada and the United States? Which country do the Chinese people regard as the best place to be educated and what do they think of Australia - is it a good place to visit, a country with attractive values or is it suspicious of China?

The 2009 Lowy Institute China Poll asked a broad sample of the Chinese population these questions and others. The Poll was partly funded with the generous assistance of the MacArthur Foundation as part of the Lowy Institute’s MacArthur Foundation Asia Security Project.

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The 2009 Lowy Institute Poll

The fifth annual Lowy Institute Poll surveys Australian public opinion on a broad range of foreign policy issues. New questions this year cover the priority given to action on climate change, public attitudes towards relations with the US and China, foreign investment, asylum seekers, how to deal with Iran and perceptions about nuclear threats.

The Poll also repeated a number of questions asked in previous years, revealing important trends in Australian public opinion over the last five years.

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