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Kevin Rudd's aspirations not meeting reality 27 Aug 2013 | 10:41 am
Nicholas Stuart is a Canberra Times columnist and author of Kevin Rudd: An Unauthorised Political Biography, What Goes Up: Behind the 2007 Election and Rudd's Way: November 2007-June 2010. Every now ...
Syria and the laws of war: Permission accomplished? 27 Aug 2013 | 09:20 am
Tim Dunne is Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland. He co-edited (with Trine Flockhart) Liberal World Orders, published this month. Watch video In a matter of days, Au...
Movie trailer: Parkland 27 Aug 2013 | 08:27 am
Yet another treatment of the Kennedy assassination. No surprise to see Tom Hanks behind this (as producer); it really is a baby boomer pre-occupation. Watch video (H/t Slashfilm.)
Alan Dupont on Rudd's foreign policy speech 27 Aug 2013 | 07:29 am
Lowy Institute Senior Nonresident Fellow Alan Dupont attended Prime Minister Rudd's speech today, and in this short interview he echoes some of James Brown's concerns about the cost of Rudd's proposal...
Moving the navy north: Is it necessary and can we afford it? 27 Aug 2013 | 06:27 am
This morning at the Lowy Institute we heard Kevin Rudd's vision of Australia's strategic situation, national security, and Australia's interconnected economy. I'll leave analysis of what he had to say...
Rudd foreign policy speech: First impressions 27 Aug 2013 | 05:51 am
Prime Minister Rudd has just left the Lowy Institute after making the first major foreign and national security policy speech of this campaign by either party. We'll post a transcript as soon as we g...
UN slams Australia's treatment of refugees 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am
Jane McAdam is Scientia Professor of Law at the University of NSW and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. In a damning indictment of Australia's treatment of refugees, the UN Human Rights C...
America in the '30s and '40s 26 Aug 2013 | 11:24 am
Via Kottke, a wonderful Library of Congress collection of 1600+ colour images of America in the 1930s and 1940s. A few samples:
Chemical weapons use in Syria: Who, what, why? 26 Aug 2013 | 10:18 am
Rod Barton was a senior UN weapons inspector in Iraq. He is the author of The Weapons Detective: The Inside Story of Australia's Top Weapons Inspector. It is difficult from media reporting to sort fa...
From our 10th anniversary anthology, a warning to America 26 Aug 2013 | 09:14 am
As I mentioned last week, the Lowy Institute's Reports From a Turbulent Decade, our tenth anniversary anthology, is now available in bookshops and online (just in time for Father's Day). With specula...
