Events

Join the authors of The Truth of the Palace Letters: Deceit, Ambush and Dismissal in 1975 for a conversation on the implications of the Palace Letters for the Australian Constitution, democracy, and the debate on an Australian republic. The conversation will be moderated by Alex Oliver, Director of Research at the Lowy Institute.
 

The annual Lowy Lecture is the Lowy Institute’s flagship event, at which a prominent speaker reflects on Australia and the world. Past Lecturers have included German Chancellor Angela Merkel, UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, former CIA Director David Petraeus, News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch, Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Lowy Institute Chairman Sir Frank Lowy and Prime Minister John Howard, who delivered the inaugural Lowy Lecture in 2005.

To mark the launch of the 2020 Asia Power Index, join us for a panel event with the principal researchers behind the annual Asia Power Index, Hervé Lemahieu and Alyssa Leng, who will be joined by Roland Rajah, the Lowy Institute’s lead economist. They will present the Index’s key findings and early results from a follow-on project looking at the future of global economic power to 2050.

Since 2013, the annual Owen Harries Lecture has honoured the enormous contribution Mr Harries, who was a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute, made to the international policy debate in Australia and the US. This is the first such lecture since Mr Harries’ passing in June, and we are honoured that it will be delivered by Francis Fukuyama, one of the most influential political scientists of his generation.

Dr Fukuyama will join us via webcast from California. He will deliver a lecture, to be followed by a conversation with Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Fullilove.

Join us for this conversation with two of Washington’s most respected and well-connected journalists (and husband and wife). This event will be held three days after the US presidential election. Glasser and Baker will sift through the results and assess the implications. What will be the next president’s priorities, who will be their key advisers, and what will America’s international partners and adversaries make of the result?

Now in its eighth year, the Lowy Institute Media Award is Australia’s premier award for recognising excellence in foreign affairs journalism. It is presented to an Australian journalist or team working in print, broadcast or online media who has deepened the knowledge or shaped the discussion of international policy. The winner or winning team receives $20,000.

 

To mark the launch of the 2020 Asia Power Index, join us for a panel discussion with Joseph S. Nye Jr., Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and former Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Senator Penny Wong, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Opposition in the Senate; Professor Yuen Foong Khong, Vice Dean at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore; and Hervé Lemahieu, Director of the Lowy Institute’s Asian Power and Diplomacy Program. 

Join us for this conversation with one of America’s most experienced and influential military leaders. General James Mattis will talk with Michael Fullilove about serving as US Secretary of Defense, his career as a US Marine, and the security challenge America faces from a rising China. They will be joined by one of Australia’s most decorated military leaders, Sir Angus Houston.

Across the Pacific, economies are being devastated by the lockdowns necessary to keep the COVID-19 pandemic at bay. The threads connecting Pacific economies to the outside world – tourism, migration, remittances, investment and trade – are fraying. Double-figure economic contractions are expected in most Pacific nations, with formal employment collapsing. It will be many years before Pacific economies recover to their 2019 levels.

Australia's relations with China seem to be reaching new lows each week, with a proliferation of disputes over everything from trade to the media to COVID-19 to universities. Join the ABC's Bill Birtles and the Australian Financial Review's Michael Smith, both recently advised by the Australian government to leave China, along with Kirsty Needham, formerly of the Sydney Morning Herald and now with Reuters, for a discussion of the bilateral relationship. The discussion will be moderated by the Lowy Institute's Senior Fellow for North Asia, Richard McGregor.

Join us for the launch of the latest Lowy Institute Paper published by Penguin Random House Australia, Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia.

Author Ben Bland will discuss what makes the Indonesian president tick, his struggle to implement reform and tackle the COVID-19 crisis, and why outsiders keep getting Jokowi – and Indonesia – wrong.

Ben Bland is the Director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute and an award-winning former correspondent for the Financial Times in Indonesia, China and Vietnam. His first book – Generation HK: Seeking Identity in China’s Shadow – was acclaimed for its prescient insights into the deepening political crisis in Hong Kong.

Join us for the launch of the latest Lowy Institute Paper published by Penguin Random House Australia, Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia, the first English-language biography of Indonesian President Joko Widodo. Lowy Institute Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove will speak with author Ben Bland about what makes the president tick, his struggle to implement reform and tackle the COVID-19 crisis, and why outsiders keep getting Jokowi – and Indonesia – wrong.