Daniel Flitton

Managing Editor, The Interpreter
Areas of expertise

Australian foreign policy and politics; Australia’s intelligence services; international relations in Asia

Daniel Flitton
Biography
Publications

Daniel Flitton is one of Australia’s most experienced foreign affairs journalists and is now Managing Editor of the Lowy Institute’s international magazine, The Interpreter.

Before joining the Institute, he was diplomatic editor and senior correspondent at The Age in Melbourne and was posted as a political correspondent in the parliament house bureau in Canberra. Daniel previously worked as an analyst for the Office of National Assessments, Australia’s peak intelligence assessment agency. He has held academic positions at the Australian National University and at Deakin University, where he developed a breadth of knowledge on Asia, the Middle East, and the Pacific. As a Fulbright scholar in 2004, he researched the Australia–United States alliance at Georgetown University in Washington DC.

What went wrong? Taiwan fails to legalise same-sex marriage
What went wrong? Taiwan fails to legalise same-sex marriage
Foreign influence helped scupper a bid to be the first Asian nation to formally legalise gay marriage.
US midterms: the no-joke elections
US midterms: the no-joke elections
Is anything short of a punishing defeat for Republicans actually an endorsement of Donald Trump?
Australia: The Morrison Way
Commentary
Australia: The Morrison Way
The summit circuit approaches and Australia’s new prime minister will take his one-man leadership show on the road. Originally published in The Diplomat.
A strange complacency
Commentary
A strange complacency
Daniel Flitton reviews The Four Flashpoints: How Asia goes to war by Brendan Taylor. Originally published in the Australian Book Review.
Australia’s Israel-Palestine conflict
Australia’s Israel-Palestine conflict
This is actually one of those rare issues in Australian foreign policy where the two major parties quite often disagree.
The world won’t wait for Scott Morrison
The world won’t wait for Scott Morrison
After an extraordinary week at home, the new PM will need to contend with a pressing international calendar.
How Peter Dutton changes Australian foreign policy
How Peter Dutton changes Australian foreign policy
He could soon be leading the country in volatile times but what does Peter Dutton think of the world beyond the border?
Wisdom of strangers: tackling racism in Australia
Wisdom of strangers: tackling racism in Australia
Many nations suffer fools and Fraser Anning is merely the latest to spout prejudice under the guise of policy.
Trump-Putin: beyond election meddling
Trump-Putin: beyond election meddling
The Helsinki Summit was judged as a spectacle, far more than on what the talks were supposed to deliver.
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