Lowy Institute

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 omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. Podcast from ISN ETH ZurichSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Advancing Innovative Development and Aid Strategies in the Asia-Pacific: Accelerating The Millennium Development GoalsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Advancing Innovative Development and Aid Strategies in the Asia-Pacific: Accelerating The Millennium Development GoalsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Advancing Innovative Development and Aid Strategies in the Asia-Pacific: Accelerating The Millennium Development GoalsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Advancing Innovative Development and Aid Strategies in the Asia-Pacific: Accelerating The Millennium Development GoalsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Advancing Innovative Development and Aid Strategies in the Asia-Pacific: Accelerating The Millennium Development GoalsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Advancing Innovative Development and Aid Strategies in the Asia-Pacific: Accelerating The Millennium Development GoalsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Next month, the heads of foreign aid agencies and international development organisations will be in Australia for Tidewater, the OECD’s annual meeting that focuses on the latest issues impacting on global development assistance. While Australia is hosting this year’s meeting, the convenor will be the chair of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee, Brian Atwood.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lowy Institute Professorial Fellow and ANU Professor Warwick McKibbon discusses Australia's new carbon tax. Professor McKibbon criticises the value of the tax to Australia and its role in reducing carbon emissions worldwide. Why we need a price on carbon 0:00 How does it work? 0:22 Main features of Australia's carbon pricing system 1:05 Problems with the carbon tax 2:18 Carbon tax and China 5:43 Domestic policy in the international system 6:57 How could it have been done differently? 7:42 A sensible climate change policy 8:32 Domestic impact of carbon pricing 10:55 The Opposition and Direct Action 12:12 International perceptions of the carbon tax 13:15See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.