Lowy Institute

On 13 August at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, the authors of a new Lowy Institute Paper on the importance to Australia of the resources boom in Sub-Saharan Africa, Roger Donnelly and Benjamin Ford, launched their Paper, entitled 'Into Africa'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 11 February 2009, Fergus Hanson examined the Australian government’s current 'no policy' approach to the probability that suspected war criminals are living in Australia and looked at options for dealing with the problem.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Alan Mitchell reports on the state of the New Zealand economy, and quotes the presentation to the Lowy Institute by Dr David Skilling of the New Zealand Institute.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As part of its Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute for International Policy was pleased to host an address by Mr Nick Warner, Secretary of Defence. The title of Mr Warner's address was '256,800 Paper Towels: Mending Defence's Broken Backbone'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 11 June at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Fergus Hanson launched his Policy Brief, 'The Dragon in the Pacific: More Opportunity than Threat' which takes a fresh look at China’s aid activities across the region.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As part of its Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute for International Policy was pleased to host an address by Mr Kenneth Roth, the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch. The title of Mr Roth's address was 'Despots masquerading as democrats: and why we let them'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 29 August 2007, as part of the Lowy Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series, Mr Morgan Tsvangirai, President of the Movement for Democratic Change and Leader of the Opposition of Zimbabwe, addressed the critical economic and political situation in Zimbabwe.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 20 March 2007, as part of the Lowy Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series, H.E. José María Aznar, the former Prime Minister of Spain, spoke to the topic 'Reinventing the West' at the Institute in 31 Bligh Street.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 19 March, Chief of Army Visiting Fellow Colonel Rodger Shanahan discussed the current status of Lebanese Hizbullah and how political forces may shape its future in a presentation entitled 'Hizbullah's post-war dilemma: walking the Lebanese political tightrope?'See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At the Wednesday Lowy Lunch on 12 December, Sam Roggeveen, editor of the Lowy Institute's blog The Interpreter, in a presentation entitled 'Blogging World Politics', discussed the impact that all types of bloggers - pyjama-clad loners in their basements, political dissidents, journalists and think tankers - are having on politics around the globe.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.