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The Lowy Institute and the AFC Asian Cup 2015 Australia local organising committee hosted a one-day conference on 23 November 2012, looking at football diplomacy. This is a recording of Session 3: Diplomatic Relations. Session questions How can we use the Asian Cup to support Australia’s diplomatic interests in the region? What needs to happen? Who takes responsibility? Chair Geraldine Doogue AO,...

The Lowy Institute and the AFC Asian Cup 2015 Australia local organising committee hosted a one-day conference on 23 November 2012, looking at football diplomacy. This is a recording of Session 4: Social & Community Engagement Session question: How can we use the Asian Cup to strengthen social and community links with Asia? What needs to happen? Who takes responsibility? Chair Craig Foster, SBS te...

The Lowy Institute and the AFC Asian Cup 2015 Australia local organising committee hosted a one-day conference on 23 November 2012, looking at football diplomacy. This is a recording of Session 2: Tourism. Session questions: How can we use the Asian Cup to promote Australia as a Tourism destination? What needs to happen? Who will take responsibility? Chair: Geoff Dixon, Chairman, Tourism Australia...

The Lowy Institute and the AFC Asian Cup 2015 Australia local organising committee hosted a one-day conference on 23 November 2012, looking at football diplomacy. This is a recording of Session 1: Trade and Investment. Session questions: How can we use the Asian Cup to promote Australia’s trade and investment ties with Asia? What needs to happen? Who will take responsibility? Chair: Anthony Bubalo...

The 2012 Lowy Lecture on Australia in the World, 'Funding Australia's future', was delivered by Cameron Clyne, Group Chief Executive Officer of National Australia Bank, on Tuesday, 13 November 2012. Mr Clyne’s address looked at the lessons learnt from the Global Financial Crisis and what we needed to do better to insulate the Australian economy from future international shocks. See omnystudio.com/...

On 24 October at the Lowy Institute, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Christiana Figueres reviewed how a low-carbon future is a trend which recognises that everyone, every nation and every sector of society holds part of the solution to solving a global problem. Audio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 4th October, 2012, Yukiya Amano, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, gave his only public address in Australia here at the Lowy Institute. He and Martine Letts, Deputy Director of the Lowy Institute, discussed the IAEA’s perspective on the future of nuclear energy and the Agency’s role in supporting secure, safe and peaceful nuclear development. Podcast. Image: Flick...

Dr. Tal Becker, one of Israel’s leading young international policy thinkers, discussed the threats and opportunities for Israel from the Arab uprisings. He also examined what the Arab Spring meant for the region, particularly Syria, Israel-Palestine conflict & Iran. Dr Tal Becker is a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the Hartman Institute for Contemporary Jewish T...

To mark the fifth anniversary of the Lowy Institute’s blog, The Interpreter, James Fallows, Atlantic correspondent discussed with Interpreter Editor Sam Roggeveen his experience as a journalist and media critic to examine the role of old and new media in politics. James Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and has written for the magazine since the late 1970s. In recent years, he h...

Anthony Bubalo, Program Director West Asia, joined ABC Radio National's Drive program to discuss Khaled Saeed, who died following a police beating in Alexandria in June 2010. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Wednesday 19 September 2012, ABC foreign correspondent Mark Cocoran, Andrew Croome - author of new novel Midnight Empire which examines the nature of drone warfare - and the Lowy Institute's Interpreter blog editor Sam Roggeveen, discussed the modern-day implications of drone technologies. Image: Flickr/truthout.org See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The President of Chile gave an address at the Lowy Institute on Monday 10 September entitled "The Pacific Alliance and Chile, a view towards the Asia-Pacific through a 21st century perspective”. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Host. Waleed Aly and 'expert guide' Anthony Bubalo interview Tal Becker as a part of the regular 'West of Asia' segment on ABC Radio National Drive. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Griggs, will deliver a speech at the Lowy Institute on the Navy’s role in contributing to Australia’s national prosperity in the maritime century. Australia has entered a Maritime Century as well as an Asian Century. In the 21st century, humanity has attained the capacity to use the world’s oceans more than ever before – for transport; for resources; and for the imp...

Stephen Smith was sworn in as Minister for Defence on 14 September 2010. Prior to that Mr Smith was Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade from 28 June 2010 and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 3 December 2007. A barrister and solicitor by profession, Mr Smith has been the Federal Member for Perth since March 1993. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

China is rising - how should America respond? That could be the crucial question of the twenty-first century, according to strategic expert Hugh White. It is also a crucial question for Australia, affecting our future economy and security. In this essential book, White considers the options for the Asian century. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

LOWY LECTURE SERIES: THE US-PAKISTAN RELATIONSHIP AND THE NEW ASIAN SECURITY ARCHITECTURE - PROFESSOR ANATOL LIEVEN On Wednesday, 8 August as part of the Lowy Lecture Series, Professor Anatol Lieven discussed the possible futures of Afghanistan and of US-Pakistan relations following the withdrawal of US and allied ground troops in 2014. The lecture also reflects his recent meetings with former lea...

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES: KEEPING IT REGIONAL: THE COALITION'S PERSPECTIVE ON THE FUTURE OF THE BALI PROCESS - SCOTT MORRISON Scott Morrison was first elected as the Federal Member for Cook in November 2007 and is currently the Shadow Minister for Productivity and Population and Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. Scott first joined the Coalition frontbench in September 2008 and h...

A Perspectives:Asia seminar presented by Mr Rory Medcalf, Director, International Security Program, Lowy Institute, at the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

LOWY LECTURE SERIES: REFORMING JUSTICE - DR LIVINGSTON ARMYTAGE Over the past fifty years, development agencies have spent billions of dollars grappling with the challenge of improving ‘the rule of law’ through improving economic growth and good governance. But the results have been dismal. The unmet challenge is to address mounting concerns about equity and distribution. In his new book, Dr Livin...

After four months in his new role, Foreign Minister Bob Carr will deliver a speech on the direction of Australia’s foreign policy and overseas development assistance. He will speak about Australia’s strategic and regional relationships and Australia’s role in multilateral fora. Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr was the longest continuously serving Premier in New South Wales history. He served a...

The Chemical Weapons Treaty and its implementing organisation, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), is the first global accord for the complete elimination of one type of weapon of mass destruction, chemical weapons. It is a trailblazer for all future accords as the world seeks to eliminate all weapons of mass destruction over time. In the lead up to the 20th anniversar...

The Lowy Institute for International Policy hosted the first ever public address by a Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) in the organisation’s 60-year history, on Thursday, 19 July in Canberra. The ASIS Director General, Nick Warner, provided a rare insight into an organisation which is by its nature secret and which has a mission to protect and promote Australia...

Australian defence capability planning: the facts from the Chief The Chief of the ADF's Capability Development Group, Lieutenant General David Hurley AO DSC, spoke to the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy audience on 23rd August 2006. In a wide-ranging presentation, General Hurley offered an insider's unique perspective from his senior position within the ADF on a number of important and topical issues. See...

Australia in the Asian Century The global power shift toward Asia presents Australia with economic opportunities, but it also raises the specter of increased geo-strategic competition, argues Michael Wesley of the Lowy Institute in Sydney. Wesley also explains his ideas about the emergence of a new kind of bipolarity – between how the "Atlantic" and "Asian" communities understand world politics. P...