Accessibility Tools

  • Content scaling 100%
  • Font size 100%
  • Line height 100%
  • Letter spacing 100%

Allan Gyngell

Allan Gyngel was the Director-General of the Australian Office of National Assessments (ONA) from 2009 to 2013 and the founding Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy (2003-9) in Sydney.

Allan Gyngell reviews 'The Howard Paradox: Australian diplomacy in Asia 1996–2006' by Michael Wesley

May 2007, no. 291 01 May 2007
Canberra’s week of the two presidents – October 2003 – brought the unprecedented spectacle of George W. Bush and China’s President Hu Jintau speaking just a day apart to joint sittings of the Australian parliament. The coincidence elegantly dramatised the central questions for Australian foreign policy: how we manage our relationships with our superpower ally, how we live with our neighbou ... (read more)