Whitlam’s life and times were unveiled in speeches
In this article from the Australian Financial Review, Dr Michael Fullilove reveals an extract from his book 'Men and Women of Australia! Our Greatest Modern Speeches'.
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Ambitious foreign policy push yet to coalesce
In this op-ed for The Sydney Morning Herald, Michael Fullilove discusses Abbott's foreign policy.
Barack Obama’s restless supporters succumb to seven year itch
In this article for The Financial Times, Michael Fullilove discusses restlessness amongst Obama's supporters.
Books that changed me
In this article for The Sydney Morning Herald, Michael Fullilove discusses the books that have influenced him.
Ten speeches on Australia's place in the world (part 2)
Part 1 of this series reviewed great speeches on Australia's place in the world, from Federation to Vietnam. In this post, I look at the period from Vietnam to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17.
1. Robert Hughes, 'The culture of complaint', New York, 14 January 1992
Bob Hughes was one of our great
Ten speeches on Australia's place in the world (part 1)
As readers of The Interpreter may have heard, I've just launched a revised second edition of Men and Women of Australia! Our Greatest Modern Speeches.
Most of the speeches in my book are about Australian history, culture and politics, not Australian foreign policy.
As I've argued before, foreign
Men and Women of Australia!: Our Greatest Modern Speeches
(Penguin, 2014)Purchase hereEven in our digital age, speeches remain the principal currency of public life. There is no better way to argue a case or sway an audience.In Men and Women of Australia!, speechmaker and former prime ministerial adviser Michael Fullilove has gathered the finest
Men and women of Australia, these orations transformed the nation
In this article for The Australian, Michael Fullilove discusses great Australian speeches.
Time for Australia to stop punching below its weight
In this article for The Australian, Michael Fullilove argues for increased Australian assertiveness.
Developing ties that bind in Asia
In this article for The Australian, Michael Fullilove and John Holmes discuss the importance of building ties with Asia.
Beyond the Boom: A new research phase for the Lowy Institute
The Lowy Institute is, first and foremost, a research institution. We publish research that is accessible to policy-makers and non-specialist readers. Often this will mean writing succinct, pithy analyses for readers who are short of time. But the biggest issues require deeper exploration: this is
Why Australians are cool with spying
Why Australians are cool with spyingMichael FulliloveForeign Policy11 June 2014Please click here for full online text
Why Australians are cool with spying
Why Australians are cool with spying
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Are Australia and China frenemies?
Are Australia and China frenemies?Michael FulliloveThe GuardianPlease click here for full online text.It is remarkable that so many Australians believe we may soon be threatened militarily by a country that many of us today see as our best friend in Asia
The people have spoken: Japan and China share title of our best friend in Asia
The people have spoken: Japan and China share title of our best friend in AsiaMichael Fullilove and Alex OliverThe AustralianPlease click here for full online text.
The giant figure who brought class to politics
The giant figure who brought class to politicsMichael FulliloveABC The Drum21 of April 2014Please click here for the online text
The predicament of proximity: how should Australia respond to China's rise to power?
In this op-ed for The Saturday Paper, Michael Fullilove argues that Australia must pursue an ambitious and coherent foreign policy to respond to the rise of China.
Neville Wran: Farewell to a giant
This item was originally published on The Drum.
Neville Wran, premier of New South Wales for a decade, brought professionalism, class and wit to Australian politics. Clothed in a good suit and armed with a sharp wit, he dominated his government, the Labor Party and the state.
I first encountered
Left’s deafening silence
In this op-ed for the Australian, Michael Fullilove laments the lack of left-wing perspectives on the Russian-Ukraine crisis. Dr Fullilove sees this as contributing to a lack of debate in Australia on the issue.
Russia-Ukraine: The silence of the left
One of the striking things about the Australian debate on Crimea is that there hasn't been one. Events in Crimea may have serious consequences for the world order, yet with some honourable exceptions, the issue has not been addressed in Australia with either thoughtfulness or urgency.
In particular
Big is absolutely better as we face an evolving Asia
Big is absolutely better as we face an evolving AsiaDr Michael FulliloveThe Australian12 March 2014http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opinion/big-is-absolutely-better-as-we-face-an-evolving-asia/story-e6frgd0x-1226851803920
Address to the National Press Club: 'A Larger Australia' by Michael Fullilove
In his first address to the National Press Club of Australia, Lowy Institute Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove called for 'a larger Australia' to meet the international challenges that the country faces
Hawks must admit they got Iraq wrong
Dr Michael Fullilove calls for pundits who cheered on Australia's invasion of Iraq to admit their grievous error.
US must follow FDR's lead on Asia
Lowy Institute Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove argues that United States President Barack Obama must follow Franklin D. Roosevelt's lead regarding foreign policy in Asia
With New Defense White Paper, Australia Rebalances
With New Defense White Paper, Australia RebalancesDr Michael FulliloveWorld Politics Review10 May 2013
Where do Australia rivals stand on foreign policy?
Viewpoint: Where do Australia rivals stand on foreign policy?Dr Michael FulliloveBBC News Asia28 August 2013Australia's election winner will need to address a broader range of global issues in a changing strategic environment, writes the Lowy Institute's Michael Fullilove, as he looks at
Diplomacy Isn't Just for the Diplomats
Diplomacy Isn't Just for the DiplomatsDr Michael FulliloveUS News4 March 2014http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/03/03/dont-worry-about-obamas-political-ambassador-nominations
Tony Abbott's diplomatic wobbles reveal challenges of new world order
In the Sydney Morning Herald, Anthony Bubalo and Michael Fullilove review why the Australian goverment seems to be staggering from crisis to crisis, arguing it has more to do with shifting plates of global power than problems in Canberra.
The 'Pivot' has run out of puff
Despite Joe Biden’s Asia trip, Obama’s foreign policy has seemed Atlantic-focused recently
Nothing to fear but fear
In this op-ed, Dr Michael Fullilove, Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy, discusses America's 'war-weariness', drawing comparisons with Roosevelt's decision to support the Allies in World War II
Presenting the new-look Interpreter
Today we're proud to launch a new look for The Interpreter.
The Interpreter began in November 2007 when it was unusual for a think tank to engage in daily online commentary and analysis. The field is now more crowded, but The Interpreter remains not just Australia's premier international policy
Caught between the U.S. and China
In a New York Times op-ed, Lowy institute Executive Director Michael Fullilove argues that the 2013 election campaign ignored the greater strategic and economic challenges facing Australia.
Judicious ambition: international policy priorities for the new Australian Government
In this new Lowy Institute Analysis, a number of Lowy Institute experts outline what they believe should be some key international priorities for the new Australian Government.
Reports from a Turbulent Decade
Throughout a decade of remarkable change and upheaval, the Lowy Institute has discussed, dissected and analysed the big issues shaping global politics, and provided fresh policy ideas for Australian decision-makers.Ranked as Australia's leading think tank, the Lowy Institute provides high-
In 100 words: The most important issue of this campaign
Over the coming days, we kick off our election coverage with short posts from our experts on what they regard as the most important international policy issue of this campaign.
I will be happy if international issues get a proper airing of any kind during the campaign. That is rarely the case.
The day FDR became a wartime president
Excerpted from Rendezvous With Destiny. To read the full article online, please click here
The Personal President
Why FDR shunned the State Department and instead sent friends and cronies on important diplomatic missions. To read the full article please click here
Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America into the War and into the World
In the dark days between Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 and Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt sent five remarkable men on dramatic and dangerous missions to Europe. The missions were highly unorthodox and they confounded and infuriated
What Australians think about America and China
In an opinion piece for the Jakarta Post, Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Fullilove writes about Australian opinions on America and China.
Five lessons on leadership from FDR
In an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Fullilove outlines five important lessons on leadership from FDR
Obama needs an FDR-like foreign policy pivot
In an opinion piece in the LA Times, Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Fullilove writes that FDR combined meticulous planning and adroit public relations to reorient the U.S. and President Obama must do the same
We see China and U.S. as central to our future
In an opinion piece in The Australian newspaper, Michael Fullilove and Alex Oliver describe Australians’ complex attitudes towards important foreign policy issues, and in particular, Australia’s relations with its two most important partners: China as its most important economic partner
We need Aussie view of world
The rise of Asia means Australia finds it self a lot closer to the centre of geopolitical and economic action than in the past. It is vital to our national interest, therefore, that Australians understand what is happening beyond our shores
We stood by the U.S. as it erred grievously in Iraq
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Lowy Institute Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove examines the costs of the war in Iraq to the United States and the implications for the Australia-US alliance
Foreign service remains vastly underfunded
In an opinion piece in the Australian Financial Review, Dr Michael Fullilove and Alex Oliver argue that as Australians look ahead to a federal election in September, they should be asking tough questions of both major parties about the funding of their foreign policies.
Lowy Institute's books of 2012 part V
Part 1 of this series by Lowy Institute research staff here; part 2 here; part 3 here; part 4 here.
Burmese Days by George Orwell. Selected by Michael Fullilove.
My book of 2012 was first published in 1934. George Orwell's novel Burmese Days is a grim but vivid account of life in Burma in the
The audacity of reasonableness: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, US foreign policy and Australia
At first glance, the differences between the two candidates for president of the United States in 2012, President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney, are striking. Each candidate is doing his best to emphasise these differences. Most commentators have drawn sharp distinctions between the two
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 as part of the Lowy Institute’s ‘Food for Thought’ program in Melbourne
The stakeholder spectrum: China and the United Nations
In recent decades China has become a far more active and effective player in, and contributor to, the United Nations. However, according to Dr Michael Fullilove, the limits of this enhanced engagement are becoming clear. Dr Fullilove emphasises that while the West might advocate that China become a
Hope or glory? The presidential election, US foreign policy and Australia
What is at stake in a US presidential election in terms of American foreign policy? How might the temperament and world-views of the respective candidates be interpreted? In this paper Dr Michael Fullilove compares and contrasts the foreign policies of Barack Obama and John McCain in the 2008
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