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Protecting our borders Apr 11, 2012

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On Wednesday 8 June, as part of our Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute was pleased to host a speech by the Hon. Tony Abbott MHR, Leader of the Opposition, on Coalition views on border security.

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Pakistan a hard country Apr 11, 2012

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n the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million people, a 500,000-man army, nuclear weapons, and a large diaspora in Britain and North America, Pakistan is of singular importance in the volatile south Asia region. At the Wednesday Lunch on 8 June, Professor Anatol Lieven, Professor in the War Studies Department of King’s College, London, presented a portrait of a country with a deeply flawed but nonetheless working system, tougher and more resilient than is usually assumed.

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Reengineering aid Apr 11, 2012

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At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 25 May, Sir Richard Feachem summarised the history of aid over the past 60 years, the evidence on aid effectiveness, and the current controversies surrounding aid.
Sir Richard proposed some building blocks for a new aid model, more suited to the geopolitical and economic realities of the 21st century.

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Fragile states and agile aid - Andrew Leigh MP Apr 11, 2012

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By 2015-16, Australia’s foreign aid budget is projected to double to $8 billion, an unprecedented expansion. In his Lowy lunch speech on 18 May, Federal member for Fraser Dr Andrew Leigh supported the importance of the Australian aid program, in terms of generosity, national security and promoting economic growth in our region.

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The Arab awakening Apr 11, 2012

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The recent uprisings and revolutions in the Middle East represent one of the most dramatic global political developments since the fall of the Berlin Wall. At the Wednesday Lunch on 11 May, governance specialist David Arnold, whose international career has spanned both the Middle East and South Asia, shared his observations and insights regarding emerging democratic reforms in the Arab region.

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Reshaping national intelligence Apr 11, 2012

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As Australia awaits the results of an Independent Review into the Intelligence Community and debate over shared secrets rages after WikiLeaks, Dr Gregory Treverton, director of the RAND Corporation’s Center for Global Risk and Security, analysed how the collection and sharing of intelligence has changed since the end of the Cold War in a public lecture at the Lowy Institute on 3 May.

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A sleeping giant of the north Apr 11, 2012

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At the Wednesday Lunch on 27 April, Dr Alexey Muraviev spoke about Russia's regional strategic policy and national defence priorities in the Far East and the Indo-Pacific. Dr Muraviev is a senior lecturer in International Relations and Strategic Studies and a strategic affairs analyst in the School of Social Sciences and Asian Languages at Curtin University.

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2011 Asian Development Outlook Report Apr 11, 2012

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Today’s global economic growth is decisively Asian. ADB’s Asian Development Outlook 2011 provides a comprehensive analysis of macroeconomic issues in developing Asia. The Asian Development Outlook 2011 includes this year’s special theme chapter on South-South economic linkages.
At this Wednesday Lowy Lunch, the ADB's Principal Economist, Dr Donghyun Park and the head of ADB in Australia, Eugenue Zhukov, presented an overview of the report and addressed some specific issues.

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Asias nuclear future after Fukushima Apr 11, 2012

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The Fukushima crisis has provoked a furious debate about the future of nuclear energy. Polling in Australia shows a return to a solid majority opposing nuclear power for Australia as part of our future energy mix. The Australian political leadership has declared the subject out of bounds.
At a special Wednesday Lowy Lunch on 20 April, three expert industry panellists discussed the future of nuclear energy.

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Courting reform Indonesias Islamic courts Apr 11, 2012

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On 30 March, in the first of the Lowy Institute’s Food for Thought lectures for this year, Cate Sumner and Tim Lindsey discussed how the Indonesian Islamic courts have embraced reform within a judicial system notorious for corruption and incompetence, taking the lead in efforts to deliver decisions that are more accessible, transparent and fair, especially for women and the poor. Indeed the courts have become models of socially oriented judicial reform, for both non-religious courts in Indonesia and also for Islamic courts elsewhere in Southeast Asia.

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