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Short posts from Lowy Institute experts on what they regard as the most important international policy issue of this campaign.

Below, a collection of links to international coverage of the Australian elections. As you will see, most media outlets rely on news agencies like Reuters, AP and AFP to provide coverage, and the emphasis tends to be on scandals, gaffes and 'colour'.

Much has been made of the defence and security aspects of the Anglosphere and the other commonalities that bind us together.

Gorana Grgic is a PhD candidate at the Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney.

RBC Global Asset Management says China headed for a severe slowdown, despite strong trade figures.

The world outside Australia did not intrude much on last evening's Leaders' Debate at the National Press Club.

Matthew Wheeler is a South East Asia Analyst with the International Crisis Group.

A quick update on the regional boom in 'flat-tops'; that is true aircraft carriers for fast-jet operations and also amphibious ships with large flight decks designed to carry helicopters and maybe drones and jump jets.

The ABC's Jane Hutcheon, a former foreign correspondent and now host of ABC News 24's One Plus One, asked some probing questions of Foreign Minister Bob Carr and his shadow Julie Bishop during Wednesday night's foreign

Thanks to the SMH for inviting me along to yesterday's Google Hangout with WikiLeaks founder and Senate candidate Julian Assange.

The Attack is a Lebanese (and French, Qatari and Belgian) production about an Israeli surgeon of Palestinian descent who discovers that his wife was a suicide bomber. Powerful stuff:

Economic theory is dying, apparently. And Joe Studwell argues that modern economists don't read history.

Tonight's foreign policy debate between Foreign Minister Senator Bob Carr and Shadow Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, hosted by the Lowy Institute, demonstrates that the major political parties have agreed on a conspiracy of silence on the China question.

Hugh Jorgensen is a Research Associate in the Lowy Institute's G20 Studies Centre.

Last week's $879 million cut to Australian foreign aid saw a quick reaction from aid groups, who were 'deeply dismayed', as well as rival political parties who were 'appalled' by the decision.

Ben Bernanke's term as Chairman of the US Federal Reserve finishes in January next year, and President Obama has indicated that he will be replaced rather than reappointed.

1. Because he hasn't shown a great deal of policy radicalism in other spheres.

Dina Esfandiary is an Iran specialist and a Research Associate in the Non-proliferation and Disarmament programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Short posts from Lowy Institute experts on what they regard as the most important international policy issue of this campaign.

We kick off our election coverage with short posts from Lowy Institute experts on what they regard as the most important international policy issue of this campaign.

We kick off our election coverage with short posts from Lowy Institute experts on what they regard as the most important international policy issue of this campaign. The most important but least discussed issue of the campaign will be population policy.