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.

Boris Johnson exits. Pass the salt.
Boris Johnson exits. Pass the salt.
Johnson still displays a twinge of anxiety in his effusive praise of British strength.
International rescue: the Thai cave response
International rescue: the Thai cave response
The latest dramatic rescue has spurred a huge international response – but cooperation never seems to outlast a crisis.
Nauru ABC ban: Australia damned by faint criticism
Nauru ABC ban: Australia damned by faint criticism
Authoritarian dangers encroaching on the Pacific have been a theme of late – but not for Australia about Nauru.
Trump-Kim summit: history happens
Trump-Kim summit: history happens
Donald Trump deserves credit for creating a moment that could – maybe – escape the madness of destruction.
BREAKING: foreign influence campaign exposed!
BREAKING: foreign influence campaign exposed!
An Interpreter exclusive reveals the insidious co-opting of Australian media and politicians. 
CHOGM: the zombie summit that will not die
CHOGM: the zombie summit that will not die
Wasting Prime Ministerial time is not good diplomacy.
Reserve judgment on 'mission accomplished' in Syria
Commentary
Reserve judgment on 'mission accomplished' in Syria
Originally published in Channel NewsAsia.Daniel Flitton
Syria strikes: mission accomplished?
Syria strikes: mission accomplished?
The US felt compelled to act, Bashar al-Assad has been punished, yet may not be deterred.
What next for the anti-whale hunters?
What next for the anti-whale hunters?
If Japan caused headaches, a fight with China about activists at sea will be very awkward for Australia.
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