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.

Best of The Interpreter 2017: China's influence
Best of The Interpreter 2017: China's influence
Highlights of debate on The Interpreter about China's influence in Australia.
Best of The Interpreter 2017: Trans-Pacific Partnership
Best of The Interpreter 2017: Trans-Pacific Partnership
Highlights from The Interpreter on the big economic story of the year.
Best of The Interpreter 2017: Donald Trump
Best of The Interpreter 2017: Donald Trump
Highlights from The Interpreter on Donald Trump's presidency.
Favourites of 2017: My doomed colleagues
Favourites of 2017: My doomed colleagues
Truth sadly matters less than access in the reporting game.
George Brandis, His Excellency, is still hostage to Malcolm Turnbull
George Brandis, His Excellency, is still hostage to Malcolm Turnbull
Any political truce over diplomatic appointments looks to have ended. A change of government should mean politicians-turned-diplomats resign.
Foreign Policy White Paper: Australia faces an uncertain world
Foreign Policy White Paper: Australia faces an uncertain world
The obvious headline on China and US rivalry only masks a deeper unease captured by the Foreign Policy White Paper.
Australia could offer Robert Mugabe a safe haven in exile
Australia could offer Robert Mugabe a safe haven in exile
Would you deal with the devil to free a nation from a tyrant?
Turnbull's travels won't quarantine him from domestic strife
Turnbull's travels won't quarantine him from domestic strife
Domestic politics has a pesky habit of interrupting foreign relationships.
The US mid-term elections and the Obama Administration
Analyses
The US mid-term elections and the Obama Administration
On Friday 5 November, two leading commentators on US politics and foreign policy, Dr Michael Fullilove and Daniel Flitton, provided some immediate analysis of the mid-term results…
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