Upcoming Events

The Lowy Institute was established to inform and deepen the debate about international policy in Australia. We connect you with interesting speakers and new ideas through our events program.

Upcoming public events are:-

Wednesday Lunch at Lowy Series

Wednesday Lowy Lunch Club The Wednesday Lowy Lunch has proven extremely popular since it was launched in 2003. The lunch series has built a reputation for presenting internationally respected experts from Australia and around the world in an intimate forum that encourages engagement with the topic and speaker. By becoming a subscriber you help the Lowy Institute focus on its highly respected work, and confirm the value that many attendees have told us they place on our Wednesday lunch series.

Upcoming Wednesday Lunch at Lowy events:

Date	Presentation	Location	City
Wednesday 1 September 2010	China's Competing International Identities: The Conflicted Rising Power Professor David Shambaugh Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University	Lowy Institute 31 Bligh St	Sydney
Wednesday 8 September 2010	Cyber Security Threats Dr Paul Twomey Managing Director, Argo Pacific	Lowy Institute 31 Bligh St	Sydney
Wednesday 15 September 2010	Implications of China's Growing Power for Australia Dr Hugh White Visiting Fellow, Lowy Institute for International Policy	Lowy Institute 31 Bligh St	Sydney
Wednesday 22 September 2010	Distinguished Speaker Series Risk and Reward: A Qantas Perspective Alan Joyce Chief Executive Officer, QANTAS	Lowy Institute 31 Bligh St	Sydney
Wednesday 29 September 2010	Ethics and Foreign Policy Dr Simon Longstaff Executive Director, St James Ethics Centre	Lowy Institute 31 Bligh St	Sydney

Food for Thought Events Series

Building on the popularity of the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy format the following events are available around Australia.

Date	Presentation	Host	City
Monday 6 September 2010	Australian Foreign Policy Post-Election: New Directions And Enduring Interests Martine Letts Deputy Director Andrew Shearer Director of Studies Rory Medcalf International Security Program Director Jenny Hayward-Jones Myer Foundation Melanesia Program Director	Telstra	Melbourne
Thursday 28 October 2010	TBC	Australian Industry Group	Canberra
Friday 5 November 2010	What the mid-term elections mean for Obama Dr Michael Fullilove Program Director, Global Issues, Lowy Institute for International Policy	Victoria Graduate School of Business	Melbourne

To attend the Food for Thought events please email Kate Weston at kweston@lowyinstitute.org with your full name, mobile number and email address.

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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)