Sir Frank Lowy AC founded the Lowy Institute for International Policy in 2003 and has served as its Chairman since then. He co-founded global shopping centre company Westfield in 1960 and served as ...

Enthusiastic, full of hope, with postgraduate degrees, international work experience, and legal working rights, I arrived in Melbourne about six months ago. But when it came to renting a home, a very ...

The first 52 Chinese students to come to the United States arrived on 27 December 1978, less than two weeks after the two countries announced the establishment of diplomatic relations. By last year, ...

Sohail Akhtar is a Kashmiri-born author, academic and policy researcher now based in Melbourne. He has led research for the World Bank, United Nations and worked in government, education, and the ...

Dr Abdul Rahman Yaacob is a Research Fellow in the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute. His research interests include Southeast Asia’s defence and security issues and the region’s relations ...

Ukraine’s strike on four Russian airfields on 1 June was one of the most effective operations of the war, causing an estimated US$7 billion in damage, disabling roughly a third of Russia’s strategic ...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent visit to Southeast Asia – Vietnam, Indonesia, and culminating in a landmark address at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore – offered a glimpse into France’s ...

South Korea’s presidential by-election, triggered by the impeachment of Yoon Suk-yeol over his short-lived effort to impose martial law in December, has elevated Democratic Party figurehead Lee ...

David Kirichenko is an Associate Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society. His work on warfare has been featured in the Atlantic Council, Centre for European Policy Analysis, and the Modern ...

Chae Jeong is a Research Assistant at the Lowy Institute, focusing on Australia–Papua New Guinea relations. He is the Founder and CEO of Echo, a not-for-profit that democratises economic literacy in ...

China has not missed the opportunity posed by the United States’ economic self-immolation to present itself as a responsible champion of the international trading system. Mid-April, shortly after the ...