Lowy Institute

On 25 February, Council on Foreign Relations president Dr Richard Haass delivered a lecture on the new challenges to the global order a quarter-century after the end of the Cold War.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Australian Chief of Army, Lieutenant General David Morrison AO outlined the shifts taking place within the Australian Army as it plans to face the challenges and opportunities of the next decades.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On February 6, 2014 the Australian Treasurer the Hon. Joe Hockey MP outlined his vision for Australia's engagement with the G20 as 2014 chair.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Thursday, 28 November the Lowy Institute was honoured to host Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Dr Michael Fullilove, Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, conducted a conversation with Daw Suu at the Institute’s Bligh Street Headquarters.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 26 November 2013 the Lowy Institute convened the first Australia-Papua New Guinea Emerging Leaders Dialogue. Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop spoke on her personal connections with PNG and Australia-PNG relations.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 21 November 2013 former Assistant Secretary of Stat eand the Lowy Institute's Distinguished International Fellow Kurt Campbell delivered the inaugural Owen Harries Lecture. Dr Campbell spoke about the future of US foreign policy in the Asia-Pacific region.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 21 November, former US Assistant Secretary of State and the Lowy Institute’s inaugural Distinguished International Fellow, Dr Kurt Campbell talked about the Australian-Indonesian spying row on ABC Radio National's Breakfast Program. The fallout from the Indonesian phone tapping scandal continues, with Jakarta officially downgrading diplomatic relations with Australia. Yet, Dr Campbell said he believed Indonesia's response to the phone tapping scandal is expected, and can be resolved. (Audio courtesy of ABC Radio National)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Linda Jakobson chats with James Reilly about his new Lowy Institute analysis paper 'China's economic statecraft', published on 27 November 2013. The paper is available here: http://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/chinas-economic-statecraft-0See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 11 November, Remembrance Day, author of the acclaimed novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan, joined the Lowy Institute’s Executive Director Michael Fullilove to reflect on memory, war, the Australian character, and the relationship between fiction and history. Apologies for the lack of Q&A — this event was conducted without microphones so questions from the audience were not recorded.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 29 October 2013, the Lowy Institute for International Policy hosted a public panel discussion on issues associated with Australia’s chairing of the G20 in 2014. Australia will assume the chair of the G20 on 1 December 2013 and the G20 summit will be held in Brisbane on 15-16 November 2014. The summit will be the largest international economic meeting ever held in Australia. The panel discussed the challenges facing Australia during its term as G20 chair and priorities for the Brisbane summit. The panel included: Paul Martin, prime minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006 and minister of finance from 1993 to 2002. He has been referred to as the ‘father of the G20’; Dr Heather Smith, Deputy Secretary, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Australia and Australia’s new G20 Sherpa; Lourdes Aranda, Mexico’s G20 sherpa when Mexico chaired the G20 in 2012; and Rohinton Medhora, President of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI, Canada. The discussion will be moderated by Mike Callaghan, Director of the G20 Studies Centre at the Lowy Institute.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.