National security
Talk of stripping citizenship is just one example of Tony Abbott’s alarmist rhetoric
In this La Trobe University Ideas and Society session at the Wheeler Centre, David Kilcullen, author of the Quarterly Essay ‘Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic State’, and La Trobe University emeritus professor Robert Manne discuss the rise of ISIS and the threat it poses.
David Kilcullen was a senior adviser to
Join NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden (via video link), Greens senator Scott Ludlam and the Australian director of Human Rights Watch Elaine Pearson for a historic discussion on Australia’s national and global surveillance state and how we can and must build a stronger movement to protect our freedoms in the digital
Frank Moorhouse’s ‘Australia Under Surveillance’ and David Horner’s ‘The Spy Catchers: The official history of ASIO, 1949–1963’
Are drones legitimised killing machines or tools for fighting terrorism and crime? What's left of our privacy when corporations and private citizens can use unmanned aircraft for surveillance? James Bridle, Michael Bar-Zohar and Michael Mori discuss.
In the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 27 August 2008, rising terrorism specialist Dr Adam Dolnik looked at the successes and failures of the field of terrorism studies, and offered...
Documentary series charts the history of Australia's intelligence-gathering operations
Prof. Michael Wesley suggests different ways of looking at risk and uncertainty and their implications in terms of the future of national security. His lecture takes place at the...
Part 1 | Part 2In this Lowy Institute speech, the Hon. Tony Abbott MHR, Leader of the Opposition, lays out for the first time under his leadership the Coalition views on foreign...
Part 1 | Part 2 In this Lowy Institute speech, the Hon. Tony Abbott MHR, Leader of the Opposition, lays out for the first time under his leadership the Coalition views on foreign...
Part 1 | Part 2 Former Australian Foreign Minister and president of the International Crisis Group Gareth Evans discusses the difficult issues around nuclear disarmament, in the...
Part 1 | Part 2 At this Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Deputy Director Martine Letts explores the prospects for partnership between government and industry on nuclear non-proliferation...
Part 1 | Part 2 At this Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Deputy Director Martine Letts explores the prospects for partnership between government and industry on nuclear non-proliferation...
Part 1 | Part 2 November 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. This also makes it the 20th anniversary of the birth of the new global economy. At this...
Part 1 | Part 2 Former Australian Foreign Minister and president of the International Crisis Group Gareth Evans discusses the difficult issues around nuclear disarmament, in the...
Part 1 | Part 2At this Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Visiting Fellow Hugh White speaks at the launch of his new Lowy Institute Paper, 'A Focused Force: Australia's defence...