Lowy Institute: Live Events

On Thursday 5 March new AFP Commissioner Andrew Colvin outlined his vision for the AFP’s future, in particular highlighting how a new approach to the AFP's longstanding engagement with international and national partners will help Australia’s law enforcement agencies protect Australia from a range of criminal and other threats. He also addressed questions from the audience regarding the prospect of the execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran in Indonesia, foreign fighters, and working with state police forces.

Dr Philippa Brant's first-of-its-kind research tracks all China's foreign aid in the Pacific Islands region. In this interview she discusses her findings.

The slowdown in China's economic growth is making headlines around the world, raising a number of important questions. Given that the Chinese Party-state’s political legitimacy is to some extent based on improving economic well-being, to what extent will the slowdown in GDP affect political and social stability in China? What ramifications will it have for the Australian and global economies? At a more fundamental level, how do we reconcile the apparently deepening contradictions between Mao-era ideology and market-oriented reform? Join John Garnaut, Angus Bell and Merriden Varrall in an in-depth discussion of these issues, drawing on their many years of experience working on China.

Greece has bought itself four more months. What needs to happen in that time? Lowy Institute economist Leon Berkelmans explains.

Although the recent peaceful democratic transitions in Indonesia and Sri Lanka point to the very real progress towards more inclusive politics in Asia, the counter-currents in places like Thailand and Bangladesh show that the international community would be unwise to become complacent. The increasing power and reach of radical movements in the Middle East show how easily conflicts like Afghanistan, Pakistan and Ukraine can metastasise across vulnerable and excluded communities. The growing power and confidence of China and India is ushering a new era of geopolitical competition in Asia and the world, but they also bring new resources and new thinking to the fight for global and regional security.

Despite much fretting from the Australian strategic commentariat, over the last decade Japan and Australia have developed a security partnership second only in depth to their respective alliance relationships with the United States. Under Prime Minister Abbott and Prime Minister Abe, the partnership has and likely will continue to deepen and broaden.

Sam Roggeveen talks with Aaron Connelly about last-minute diplomatic efforts to save Chan and Sukumaran from execution, and whether the death penalty will ever be abolished in Indonesia.

Michael Fullilove discusses his Financial Times opinion piece on Australia's political leadership malaise.

Lowy Lecture Series - The year ahead in 2015 by Lowy Institute

Sir Simon Fraser is Permanent Undersecretary of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the senior policy adviser to Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond.

Terrorism expert Andrew Zammit on the Charlie Hebdo attack by Lowy Institute

2014 Year in Review: Aaron L. Connelly on Indonesia by Lowy Institute

2014 Year in Review: Jenny Hayward-Jones and Mark Tamsitt on the Pacific Islands by Lowy Institute

2014 Year in Review: Leon Berkelmans and Stephen Grenville on the global economy by Lowy Institute

2014 Year in Review: Merriden Varrall and Rory Medcalf on security issues in Asia by Lowy Institute