The Lowy Institute

On Friday 10 November 2006 the Lowy Institute hosted a special briefing on the results of the mid-term congressional elections, in which the Democratic Party regained control of both houses of Congress. The featured speaker was award-winning journalist, author and Lowy Institute Visiting Fellow Peter Hartcher.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 29 November 2006 at a special Wednesday Lunch at Lowy at 31 Bligh Street, the noted commentator Owen Harries spoke on the topic 'After Iraq'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 5 September 2007 at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Dr Bates Gill spoke on the topic of 'Asian regional architecture: the debate in Washington.'See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 12 July 2006, Leigh Sales, the ABC’s National Security Correspondent, spoke to the Wednesday Lowy Lunch seminar at the Lowy Institute about the key questions raised by Guantanamo: what the centre is like and how the US government is likely to extricate itself from the island.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Friday, 6 November 2009, the Honourable Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia, spoke at the Lowy Institute for International Policy on 'Australia, the region and the world: the challenges ahead'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 15th March 2006 at Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Ambassador Martin Indyk, Lowy Institute Board Member and Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Studies at the Brookings Institution and Anthony Bubalo, Lowy Institute Research Fellow, debated the pros and cons of the Bush Administration's great democratisation gamble.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 6 December 2007, as part of it Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute hosted an address by the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns, on U.S.-Australian relations in a new era.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 31 July 2007, as part of the Lowy Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series, John Lipsky, First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, spoke on financial market globalisation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Institute was pleased to host an address by Helen Clark, head of the United Nations Development Programme, on 12 February 2010. Helen Clark discussed the role of the UNDP and the importance of aid in managing these priorities, while remaining flexible to the ever present threat of natural disasters and conflicts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At the Wednesday Lunch on 24 October 2007, the Lowy Institute's Malcolm Cook and Mark Thirlwell discussed the economic future of the big five economies of Southeast Asia. A decade on from the financial crisis finds policymakers in the region's richer economies struggling with a series of important questions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 13 September 2009, Dr Andrew Charlton talked about a radical new plan to break the deadlock in the Doha Round and create a trading system that does more for global poverty reduction.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 18 February 2009, Mark Thirlwell, Director of the Institute's International Economy program, looked at how the world economy will cope with what's turning into its biggest stress test in decades.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 7 November 2007 at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Dr Meryl Williams launched her new Lowy Institute Paper entitled 'Enmeshed: Australia and Southeast Asia's Fisheries'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 31 October 2007 at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Dr Milton Osborne examined China's growing influence in Southeast Asia by looking at the water politics of the Salween and Mekong River systems that link China to continental Southeast Asia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 30 May 2007 at the Wednesday Lowy Lunch, at 31 Bligh Street, Professor James Piscatori discussed Iraq and the future of political Islam.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 2 August 2006, Dr Malcolm Cook, program director Asia and the Pacific, discussed Prime Minister Koizumi's legacy and the changes he has overseen to Japan’s domestic politics and international policy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 27 February 2008, Archbishop John Odama spoke about the brutal twenty-year conflict in northern Uganda in his presentation 'Reconciliation and development: The Ugandan experience'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 11 July 2007 at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Dr Stephen Grenville addressed the questions: As international capital flows back into the Asian region's economies, is the region now seeing old vulnerabilities re-emerge? And has the IMF learned the right lessons from history?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr Michael Fullilove was the speaker at the Wednesday Lowy Lunch on 26 April 2006. The topic was: 'After Honiara: Implications for the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In a speech on 23 August 2006 co-hosted jointly by the Lowy Institute and the University of Sydney, Lowy Institute Board Member, Ambassador Martin Indyk, addressed the current turmoil in the Middle East and, in particular, what this meant for the United States goal of re-shaping and democratising the Middle East.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.