Lowy Institute

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, Research Director, Lowy Institute for International Policy Speakers: Christopher Fong, Deputy Chairman, Brisbane Roar Football Club and Senior Vice President, Bakrie Group John Lord AM, Chairman, Huawei Technologies (Australia) Pty Ltd Ashley White, Chair, Business Club Australia, AustradeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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/listener for privacy information.

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: Flickr/IAEA.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 Thought. He served as senior policy advisor to Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2009 and was a lead negotiator during Israeli-Palestinian negotiations under the Annapolis peace process. In this capacity he also played a lead role in managing Israel's relations with the US, the EU, the UN and numerous Arab states.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 has reported extensively from China and his latest book, China Airborne, was published in early May. He is also the author of Breaking The News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy, and is chair in US media at the US Studies Centre, University of Sydney.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.orgSee 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.