lowyinstitute
Summary: The Lowy Institute is an independent, nonpartisan international policy think tank located in Sydney, Australia. Ranked as Australia’s top think tank, the Institute provides high-quality research and distinctive perspectives on foreign policy trends shaping Australia and the world. On Soundcloud we host podcasts from our events with high level guest speakers as well as our own experts. Essential listening for anyone seeking to better understand foreign policy challenges!
- Visit Website
- RSS
- Artist: lowyinstitute
- Copyright: All rights reserved
Podcasts:
Advancing Innovative Development and Aid Strategies in the Asia-Pacific: Accelerating The Millennium Development Goals
Advancing Innovative Development and Aid Strategies in the Asia-Pacific: Accelerating The Millennium Development Goals
Advancing Innovative Development and Aid Strategies in the Asia-Pacific: Accelerating The Millennium Development Goals
Advancing Innovative Development and Aid Strategies in the Asia-Pacific: Accelerating The Millennium Development Goals
Advancing Innovative Development and Aid Strategies in the Asia-Pacific: Accelerating The Millennium Development Goals
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.
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 13:15
Crisis in the Eurozone. An unconvincing recovery in the United States. Slowing growth in China. Signs of a stall in India. And one of the best quarterly GDP readings in Australia in the past five years. What’s going on? Dr John Edwards and Mark Thirlwell on 27 June discussed the world's turbulent global economy and the implications for Australia. Dr John Edwards is a Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute and a member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia. Mark Thirlwell is the Director of the Institute’s International Economy Program.
Australia's political relationship with China is far less developed than its economic relationship. In Australia-China ties: in search of political trust, Linda Jakobson argues that this is detrimental to Australia's interests because China is not merely an economic power but also a crucial political and security actor in the region. Underdeveloped political and strategic relations between Canberra and Beijing weaken Australia's ability to exert influence regionally. Australia risks being viewed by China's leaders merely as a provider of resources. Moreover, there is a danger that problems in the bilateral relationship will escalate into a crisis due to the lack of familiarity and political trust between key Australian and Chinese decision-makers.
On Tuesday 26 June, NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell delivered the second annual Australia-Gulf Lecture at the Lowy Institute’s Bligh Street headquarters. The Australia-Gulf Lecture series aims to promote a greater awareness and understanding of the growing relationship between Australia and the countries of the Gulf region. Etihad Airways is the principle partner of the Australia-Gulf Lecture series.
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.
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'.
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.'
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.
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'.
