Janaki Bahahur draws upon her experience as an Indian-born journalist living in Australia to look below the surface of this year’s controversy about the welfare of Indian students in Australia. She identifies the commercial and nationalistic drivers of the sensationalised Indian media coverage, while also observing that the intense media attention exposed genuine problems, not...

This paper makes the case that Australia's bid for the Security Council is both prudent and popular, and refutes the various arguments that have been made against the bid. Image: Riacale / Flickr

This paper examines the relationship between economic growth and poverty in Papua New Guinea. Using a new analytical framework, it explains why the 'poverty dividend' from growth is often small and what can be done to increase it. These questions have special resonance today. The PNG economy has succeeded in unlocking growth in recent years...

On 16 November last year, G20 leaders made a commitment to resist protectionism. According to the World Bank, by the end of February 2009, seventeen of the twenty had already ‘implemented 47 measures whose effect is to restrict trade.’ When the leaders meet in Pittsburgh on 24 September 2009, they will have an opportunity to...

In this new Lowy Institute Policy Brief, Executive Director Michael Wesley analyses the multi-faceted international student debate. It canvasses the dynamics of the international student industry and the social, economic and criminal issues faced by international students during their time in Australia. Wesley scutinises the wide-ranging implications of the problem and considers that if left...