Johannesburg is days away from hosting the G20 Leaders’ Summit, the first time the meeting has been held in Africa. For South Africa, it should be a moment of diplomatic confidence: a chance to ...

“We want to do trade with other countries where we pay in digital currencies. It is a necessity for us.” So said Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of the Iranian parliament, at the deBlock Summit, ...

The Tuesday firing (or resignation) of president Donald Trump’s third national security advisor, John Bolton, was hardly a surprise. The rift between the two men had been the subject of news pieces ...

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

The dust from the APEC summit in the South Korean city of Gyeongju has settled, and the commentariat has, perhaps understandably, focused on the tactical US–China truce. But the real, lasting tectonic ...

We’re used to applying an instant mental discount to anything US President Donald Trump says, either because he’s uninformed about the subject he’s making confident declarations about, or because ...

Time is running out for the Australian government’s bid to host the global climate change negotiations COP31 in partnership with the Pacific in November 2026. The government has pushed to host the ...

Not so long ago, Scott Morrison delivered an infamous Lowy Lecture, assailing the multilateral system as “negative globalism”. Many were rightly stunned that the former prime minister didn’t ...