Foreign policy in an election year — Melbourne

Australians will go to a federal election in a few months’ time. A fraught international environment is challenging the old rule that Australians do not vote on foreign policy questions. How will global issues — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China’s icy relations with Australia, climate change, the pandemic, and headwinds in the global economic recovery — influence the course of the election campaign? Just how durable is the tradition of foreign policy bipartisanship in Australia? And what key issues are likely to dominate the next government’s international agenda?

Join us in Melbourne for this panel discussion with Lowy Institute experts to examine foreign policy and national security in this election year.