All Episodes

Pessimistic and unsafe: How Australians feel about the world today

Dire straits: Strategic chokepoints in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait

After the unravelling: Confronting the new world order

Cartel Paradise: Unpacking the Pacific’s drug superhighway

Decoding ‘America First’: The origins of Trump’s foreign policy

Tariffs, Trump and the Indo-Pacific: Reading Washington’s signals

The Trump Strategy: Stephen Biegun's 2026 Owen Harries Lecture

Australia's Southeast Asia blind spot with Michael Wesley

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on sovereignty, middle powers, and dealing with Trump

Ely Ratner: The China challenge — Has America lost its way?

2026: The year of rupture

Senator Tim Ayres on the Australian Government’s National AI Plan

Troy Bramston: How Gough Whitlam reshaped Australia's place in the world

EVENT: Launch of the Asia Power Index 2025

EVENT: Present at the Destruction

EVENT: 2025 Lowy Lecture — Director-General of Security Mike Burgess

Event: The Myth of the Asian Century

Event: Lowy Institute Media Award — In conversation with Susan Glasser and Peter Baker

EVENT: Indonesia’s next chapter — Governance, leadership and reform

Highlights: Lowy Institute Debate | How to defend Australia

Highlights: Malaysia, China, and the region in a pivotal year | Perspectives from the ANU Malaysia Update

Highlights: A conversation with the Rt Hon David Lammy MP

Lowy Institute Poll 2025 — Australia and the new world disorder

EVENT: Australia in a world adrift — Lowy Institute Poll 2025 Canberra launch

EVENT: Book launch —' A Memoir of Freedom' by Cheng Lei

EVENT: Donald Trump and the West

EVENT: Australia, China, and a global economy in flux — An address by RBA Deputy Governor Andrew Hauser

EVENT: 100 Days of Trump 2.0 — A conversation with Susan Glasser and Dr Michael Fullilove

EVENT: 2025 FDC Pacific Leaders’ Address — His Excellency Surangel Whipps Jnr, President of Palau

EVENT: Frontline reporting — Pacific journalists unpack geopolitics and security in a region in flux_1

EVENT: Special address by Lieutenant General Simon Stuart, Chief of Army

EVENT: Rose Gottemoeller on an unfolding peace process in Ukraine

EVENT: Owen Harries Lecture US–Russia–China — The nuclear triumvirate of the 21st century

EVENT: The future of the Australia–US alliance

Lowy Institute Re-cast — EVENT: Asia in 2025 and the return of Donald Trump

EVENT: The Year Ahead: What 2025 holds for Australia in the world (Sydney)

EVENT: Climate resilience in the Pacific: What is needed and Australia’s role

EVENT: The Year Ahead: What 2025 holds for Australia in the world (Melbourne)

EVENT: Remaking the Indo Pacific- the Indian Ocean and China’s Rise

EVENT: The 2024 Lowy Interview with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan

EVENT: Asia in 2025 – the return of Donald Trump

EVENT: US Election — Where to now?

2024 Lowy Lecture delivered by the President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel

EVENT: Geopolitics - the bedrock of the new investment order

In conversation with Shashank Joshi - Defence Editor, The Economist

Lowy Institute experts discussion the US Presidential Elections

EVENT: Safeguarding Democracy in an era of geopolitical competition

Launch of the 2024 Asia Power Index: Will China gain uncontested primacy in Asia?

Is Asia multipolar? Debating the results of the Asia Power Index

EVENT: The Canberra launch of Sean Turnell’s Best Laid Plans — The Inside Story of Reform in Aung San Suu Kyi’s Myanmar

EVENT: The 2024 US presidential election — Democracy and its discontents

EVENT: The War for Ukraine — Strategy and Adaptation Under Fire

EVENT: From Jokowi to Prabowo: Perspectives from the ANU Indonesia Update

EVENT: In conversation with the President of the World Bank Group, Ajay Banga

EVENT: The Sydney launch of Sean Turnell’s Best Laid Plans: The Inside Story of Reform in Aung San Suu Kyi’s Myanmar

EVENT: Australia’s permanent contest: China in the Pacific Islands

EVENT: Sir Lawrence Freedman on the war in Ukraine

EVENT: An Address by Prime Minister of New Zealand, Christopher Luxon

Canberra Launch: 2024 Lowy Institute Poll - Australian attitudes to the world

EVENT: Girt by Sea: Finding security in Australia’s maritime domains

EVENT: Gods, Guns and Sedition

EVENT: Launch of Deterring at a distance - The strategic logic of AUKUS by Luke Gosling OAM MP

EVENT: The inaugural Allan Gyngell Lecture

EVENT: Coming to terms with Myanmar’s fragmented state

EVENT: An address by The Hon Dr Jim Chalmers MP, Treasurer of Australia

EVENT: In conversation with Admiral John Aquilino, Commander, US Indo-Pacific Command

EVENT: The Year Ahead: A Conversation with Gideon Rachman

EVENT: 2023 Lowy Lecture delivered by Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

EVENT: An address by James Marape, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea

EVENT: Eliot Cohen on The Ukraine War and Western Intelligence

EVENT: In Conversation with Sir Lawrence Freedman

EVENT: A global climate action address by the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Hon Chris Bowen

EVENT: Book launch - An Unlikely Prisoner by Lowy Institute Senior Fellow Sean Turnell

EVENT: In Conversation with Belgium Foreign Minister on Business and Human Rights

EVENT: An address by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Fiji, Sitiveni L Rabuka

EVENT: Owen Harries Lecture: India’s role in Asia’s changing geopolitics

EVENT: What would Kissinger do? Lessons of US diplomacy in the Middle East and elsewhere

Melbourne Event: Lowy Institute Poll 2023 - Australian Attitudes to the World

EVENT: Russia-Ukraine war: Where to next?

EVENT: 2023 Lowy Institute Poll: Australian attitudes to the world

EVENT: Peak China? China’s economic trajectory and implications for its strategic ambitions

EVENT: Being Chinese in Australia - Canberra event

EVENT: Australia and Indonesia: diverging neighbours in the Indo-Pacific?

EVENT: 2023 Being Chinese in Australia: Public opinion in Chinese communities

Event: An Address by General Angus Campbell, Chief of the Defence Force

EVENT: Paradigm shift? Australia, AUKUS and the Defence Strategic Review

EVENT: 2023 FDC Pacific Lecture: Hon Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa

EVENT: Book launch and discussion - Helpem Fren by Michael Wesley

EVENT: The Russia–Ukraine war: where to now?

EVENT: Women and foreign policy - Perspectives from the Lowy Institute

EVENT: The Year Ahead: What 2023 holds for Australia in the world

Launch of the Asia Power Index 2023

EVENT: Preparing for Global Challenges: In Conversation with Bill Gates

EVENT: An address by Sanna Marin, Prime Minister of Finland

EVENT: Gideon Rachman - The Age of the Strongman

EVENT: 2022 Lowy Lecture - Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

EVENT: 2022 Lowy Institute Media Lecture by Gideon Rachman

EVENT: Owen Harries Lecture - Sir Lawrence Freedman

EVENT: Under Pressure - The present and future of international order

EVENT: An address by Dr S. Jaishankar, India’s Minister for External Affairs

EVENT: A special address by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy

EVENT: Women and ASD in our 75th year: an address by Rachel Noble PSM

EVENT: Lowy Institute Paper Launch: Rise of the Extreme Right by Lydia Khalil