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.

Morrison Struggles Amidst His Bushfire Response
Commentary
Morrison Struggles Amidst His Bushfire Response
Originally published in the Council on Foreign Relations.
Australian politics: Trouble at the top, again
Australian politics: Trouble at the top, again
Scott Morrison, after a torrid summer, now has to contend with big hat brashness inside his junior coalition partner.
Q&A: Jason Rezaian on Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s nightmare in Iran
Q&A: Jason Rezaian on Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s nightmare in Iran
The American journalist – also once a prisoner in Tehran – wants Australia to push to end Iran’s state hostage-taking.
Learning from extinction
Learning from extinction
With the spotlight on animals’ fate in Australia’s raging bushfires, perhaps a North American experience has answers.
Best of The Interpreter 2019: Your most read
Best of The Interpreter 2019: Your most read
From a big year in politics and diplomacy, revealing the 10 most popular Interpreter articles of 2019.
Favourites of 2019: Slow Horses on Spook Street
Favourites of 2019: Slow Horses on Spook Street
What better way to understand the upside-down world of today than with fiction masquerading as fact?
Are our politicians a security risk?
Commentary
Are our politicians a security risk?
Should spooks vet the reliability of parliamentarians? It is not clear that doing so would benefit our democracy. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review. Daniel…
Victoria takes the initiative with China
Victoria takes the initiative with China
For reasons perhaps best known to himself, the premier has re-upped the state’s agreement on Belt and Road.
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