The Lowy Institute Poll, now in its nineteenth year, is a valuable guide to how Australians see the world and their place in it. The 2023 poll reveals a sober optimism on the part of Australians looking out to the world. More Australians feel safer than last year, and their belief in democracy remains strong.

Papua New Guinea (PNG) has a small, but rapidly growing digital footprint, with new mobile phone, internet, and social media users joining the digital realm every year. The author of this report argues that supporting PNG’s digital transformation will unleash the massive potential for positive economic and social change within PNG’s youth sector.

The Digital Threats to Democracy (DTD) Dialogue was a day-long, closed-door session that brought together a distinguished group of diverse subject matter experts, government officials and civil society stakeholders to examine intersecting digital challenges to democracy. This report consolidates and summarises the key points of the presentations, discussions and recommendations for consideration that arose from...

The author of this report argues that rising government subsidies to industry in the big world economies, and the entanglement of national security and commercial motives, pose difficult policy issues for countries such as Australia, which cannot match the subsidies provided by the great powers.

China appears increasingly confident in aligning itself politically against the West. But there are ways for Australia and Europe to even the balance.