Expertise
U.S. foreign policy; Australian foreign policy; diasporas and the international system; Asia and the Pacific; the United Nations and multilateral diplomacy; international law; state-building; human rights; speech-making
Background
Current Positions
Director, Global Issues Program, Lowy Institute for International Policy
Past Positions
Lawyer; Consultant on the establishment of the Lowy Institute; Adviser to the Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon. Paul Keating, MP; Volunteer, U.N. mission to East Timor
Education
Ph.D. (2004), M.Phil. (1999), Rhodes Scholar, University of Oxford; LL.B., University of New South Wales, 1997; B.A., University of Sydney, 1993
"The Rudd Government will be as different on foreign policy from the Howard Government as the Howard Government was from the Keating Government.” In their management of the alliance, Labor prime ministers "emphasize the promotion of Australian ideas and the defence of Australian interests. Labor governments pride themselves on making Australia a busy ally."