Australian Perspective
Analyses
Judicious ambition: international policy priorities for the new Australian Government
In this new Lowy Institute Analysis, a number of Lowy Institute experts outline what they believe should be some key international priorities for the new Australian Government…
Speeches
Lowy Lecture Series: 'Securing Australia's Future Prosperity' by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
On Tuesday 27 August 2013, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered an address to the Lowy Institute for International Policy titled "Securing Australia's Future…
Commentary
A friendly Lazarus in Tokyo
Australia-Japan relations could well be in for a sustained period of deeper and broader co-operation because of the recent political earthquakes in Japan and the Lazarus-like rise…
Speeches
Australia-France Strategic Dialogue: Co-Chairs' Report
Australia and France are well-placed to help each other advance their security interests in a rapidly changing world. Despite differences of geography, these two countries share…
Commentary
Peter O’Neill’s refugee gamble
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill either played a blinder or sowed the seeds for social turmoil when he signed off on the Regional Resettlement Arrangement with…
Speeches
Lowy Institute-Rio Tinto China lecture: 'Chinese FDI in Australia - drivers and perceptions' by Professor Zha Daojiong
A revised and edited version of the lecture given by the inaugural Lowy Institute-Rio Tinto China Analyst Fellow, Professor Zha Daojiong of Peking University, on 27 …
Commentary
What Australians think about America and China
In an opinion piece for the Jakarta Post, Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Fullilove writes about Australian opinions on America and China. Michael Fullilove
Commentary
Kevin 2.0: Looking for a Regional Solution on Asylum Seekers
In this commentary for for CSIS' CogitAsia blog, Lowy Institute research associate Jack Georgieff analyses the contours of the asylum seeker debate in Australia alongside its…
Commentary
What you can do for us, not what we can do for you
International Security Program Director Rory Medcalf looks at what the results of the 2013 Lowy Institute Poll reveal about Australia-US relations in light of the appointment of a…
Polling
The Lowy Institute Poll 2013
The ninth annual Lowy Institute Poll reports the results of a nationally representative survey of 1,002 Australian adults conducted by mobile and fixed-line telephone in…