Election Interpreter 2013
Julie Bishop's lawyerly approach
Andrew Pickford is a Perth-based security and energy analyst.
The former Mediterranean Restaurant in the leafy Perth suburb of Subiaco, a corporate deal-making hub during the…
Why the Coalition is the best choice on foreign, aid and trade policy at this election
Julie Bishop is the Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Interpreter has also asked Foreign Minister Bob Carr to submit an article making Labor's case.
The Coalition's…
4 reasons Tony Abbott might not be steady-as-she-goes on foreign policy
When I gave my five reasons Tony Abbott will be a steady-as-she-goes foreign policy leader, I said that as a conservative, Abbott is temperamentally and philosophically sceptical…
In 100 words: The most important issue of this campaign
Short posts from Lowy Institute experts on what they regard as the most important international policy issue of this campaign. See the Election Interpreter 2013 archive for the…
The election, from overseas
Below, a collection of links to international coverage of the Australian elections. As you will see, most media outlets rely on news agencies like Reuters, AP and AFP to…
Leaders' debate: Rudd and Abbott fail on Sydney's second Asia connection
Australian elections are won or lost on domestic issues, but it is not quite true that the world outside was absent from the leaders' debate last night.
First, the so-called …
First leaders' debate
The world outside Australia did not intrude much on last evening's Leaders' Debate at the National Press Club. And for Richard Green, who posted his version of our 'In 100 Words'…
Medcalf-Hutcheon on Carr-Bishop
The ABC's Jane Hutcheon, a former foreign correspondent and now host of ABC News 24's One Plus One, asked some probing questions of Foreign Minister Bob Carr and his shadow Julie…
In 100 words: The most important issue of this campaign
Hugh Jorgensen is a Research Associate in the Lowy Institute's G20 Studies Centre. See every short post from our experts on the most important international policy issue of this…
The Pacific in the foreign policy debate
It was great to see Australia's relations with Pacific Islands feature in last night's foreign policy debate and particularly pleasing to see this issue raised outside of the…