Election Interpreter 2013

The election, from overseas (part 3)
Marty Harris is an Assistant Digital Editor at the Lowy Institute.  Australian comedian Adam Hills cast his pre-poll vote in London recently. He laments that the UK's coverage of…
Keeping up with Rudd
After three-and-a-half weeks of campaigning in which foreign and national security policy barely got a look in, it's now getting hard to keep up with Prime Minister Rudd's…
A new tool for charting Australian public opinion about the world
Today the Lowy Institute launches a new interactive tool to encapsulate some of the vast array of data we've amassed in the nine years of our polling program. For some people,…
Three questions to help you judge Government and Opposition asylum policies
Dr Khalid Koser is a Lowy Institute Non-Resident Fellow and Deputy Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Recent Government and Opposition policy announcements on…
Israel-Palestine: What could a Coalition Government change?
Throughout its nearly six years in Opposition, the Coalition has on many, many occasions criticised Labor Government policy and rhetoric on Israel-Palestine. Should there be a…
Logic and politics in Rudd's navy base plan
Rear Admiral (ret'd) James Goldrick AO, CSC is a Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute. The Prime Minister's announcement at the Lowy Institute yesterday of a 'Future Navy' Task…
Kevin Rudd's aspirations not meeting reality
Nicholas Stuart is a Canberra Times columnist and author of Kevin Rudd: An Unauthorised Political Biography, What Goes Up: Behind the 2007 Election and Rudd's Way: November 2007…
Alan Dupont on Rudd's foreign policy speech
Lowy Institute Senior Nonresident Fellow Alan Dupont attended Prime Minister Rudd's speech today, and in this short interview Alan echoes some of James Brown's concerns about the…
Moving the navy north: Is it necessary and can we afford it?
This morning at the Lowy Institute we heard Kevin Rudd's vision of Australia's strategic situation, national security, and Australia's interconnected economy. I'll leave analysis…
Rudd foreign policy speech: First impressions
Prime Minister Rudd has just left the Lowy Institute after making the first major foreign and national security policy speech of this campaign by either party. We'll post a…