Administration

There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. And so it is for IT upgrades, when despite things working fine in testing, they don't work so well in practice. On Tuesday I mentioned that Interpreter Email Digest subscribers were getting a new service with an upgraded format, but unfortunately we

Over the last few months, you might have noticed that The Interpreter has gotten busier. The Lowy Institute made a decision late last year to invest in a bigger, more ambitious Interpreter, and since early this year we have increased the number of items we post each day. More specifically, we

Minutes ago I published what I expect will be our last Reader Riposte on The Interpreter. From now on, readers wishing to comment on Interpreter posts can do so via the comments section at the bottom of each post. I'll still occasionally feature the best comments in 'From the Comments' posts, but I

In the lead-up to Christmas, we offer Lowy research staff selections for the best book they've read this year. Part 1 is here; part 2 is here. The Hungry Ghosts, by Shyam Selvadurai. Selected by Danielle Rajendram, Research Associate, International Security Program. Shyam Selvadurai's fourth

  Tomorrow is Australia Day, which means we all get Monday off for that little extra sleep and relaxation. Enjoy the long weekend, if you're getting one, and see you Tuesday for the resumption of blogging. Photo by Flickr user iansand

With our fifth year of blogging under the belt, it's time for The Interpreter to close up shop and wish you all the very best for Christmas and the new year. Normal blogging resumes on 7 January. But I can't let this occasion pass without noting the enormous contribution Graeme Dobell has made

Tomorrow is Anzac Day, a public holiday in Australia. Normal blogging resumes on Thursday. Photo by Flickr user Luke Redmond. 

In case you missed it, last week the Lowy Institute released its second Indonesia Poll. The results showed that Indonesians had markedly warmed towards Australians, moving from a lukewarm 51° recorded in the Institute’s 2006 Indonesia Poll to a warm 62°. The poll was immediately

Tomorrow when you find your way to The Interpreter, you will see a pop-up window (below) asking you to participate in a reader survey. We want to get a better idea of what you like about the blog and what you would like to see improved. We also want to get a better impression of who our readers are

A quick reminder that COB tomorrow is the last day we will be accepting applications for the position of part-time assistant online editor at the Lowy Institute. You can read the job description and get all the application details by clicking here. For those who have already applied, if

Just a quick note to anyone who missed this job notice the first time around: you have until 1 February to submit applications for the position of part-time assistant online editor at the Lowy Institute (pictured). If you\'ve submitted an application already, you should have

In July 2010, thousands of people uploaded onto YouTube videos about life on that day. The resulting footage was edited into this 90-minute documentary. Life in a Day has been online since January, but we haven\'t featured it previously, and it seems like a nice way to end the year

Al Jazeera ran this article on its opinion page over the weekend, though they omitted many hyperlinks, and at my request they also removed one short passage which we include here, with a footnote. The Lowy Institute takes seriously its commitment to open debate, so when our reputation is

I don\'t often go out of my way to spruik the work that appear on this site, but I just want to join former US State Department Director of Policy Planning Anne-Marie Slaughter in pointing you to our fascinating interview with Zhu Feng, one of China\'s most renowned North Korea experts. In

Last week, the Lowy Institute headed to New Zealand. On 4-5 September, with the cooperation of the Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Institute, we hosted The Pacific Islands and the World conference in Auckland. A full conference report will shortly be available on our website

Stephanie Dunstan recently joined the Lowy Institute as Strategic Communications Manager after a number of years working for the UN in Bangkok and New York. As Interpreter readers are likely aware, 1 September is the 60th anniversary of the signing of the ANZUS Treaty. To mark this

The Australian has a piece today alleging Defence Minister Stephen Smith is sitting on ADF senior appointment decisions. In the middle of the article comes this line: Some officers are concerned that the delay might indicate that Mr Smith is planning to impose his own team on Defence

Technorati is one of the most widely cited blog ranking services around, and although the site has its critics, it's a useful way to measure the progress of a blog over time*. In November 2008, for example, The Interpreter was ranked 93,223rd out of all the tens of millions of blogs

Richard Green appeals to my better nature, damn him. He has half a point, in that my reply to Robert Merkel was written out of frustration with Robert's false claim of consensus. Maybe I should have tried harder to put out my hand to Robert rather than raising a finger. But

In the University of Pennsylvania's annual rankings of the world's top think thanks, released yesterday, the Lowy Institute achieved its highest-ever ranking: 27th in the top 50 think tanks worldwide (which excludes US institutions). The only other Asia-based think tank in the top 30

Some readers may know that this week the Lowy Institute will lose one of its founding staff members, Malcolm Cook. Malcolm is off to become Dean of the School of International Studies at Flinders University, although he will remain a visiting fellow at Lowy. In the spirit of Wikileaks, frank

The Lowy Institute is holding an in-house event today, so blogging will be light for a while

Today is a public holiday in this part of the world — normal blogging resumes tomorrow

The Interpreter is knocking off early today so that the technical wizards at Twisted Pear Concepts (who are pretty good at web design too) can move us to a new server. It's not that we're having technical problems. In fact, this is a good news story — we need to