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The Lowy Institute was founded in April 2003 by Sir Frank Lowy, a Slovakian-born Australian-Israeli billionaire businessman and co-founder of Westfield Corporation. Lowy endowed the institute with a donation sufficient to fund the first eight years of its operation.
The Lowy Institute is based at 31 Bligh Street in the Central Business District of Sydney, Australia. It is housed in a heritage-listed historic building that formerly served as the New South Wales Club premises.
The Lowy Poll is an annual survey of a nationally representative sample of the adult Australian population on foreign policy issues and is the institute's flagship publication. The first Lowy Poll was conducted in 2005, and it is wholly funded by the Lowy Institute.
The Lowy Institute receives funding from the Australian government through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Department of Defence, and Department of Home Affairs. Corporate donors include BHP, Rio Tinto, Capital Group, and Rothschild and Co. By 2019, the institute reported revenues of over twelve million dollars.
The Asia Power Index is an analytical tool developed by the Lowy Institute that allows comparisons of countries across eight types of power: military capability, defence networks, economic resources, economic relationships, diplomatic influence, cultural influence, resilience, and future resources.
The institute experienced information-harvesting cyber attacks during and before 2012, generally attributed to China, comparable to attacks on U.S. think tanks. In 2012, Jim Green of Friends of the Earth Australia alleged the institute ran a propaganda campaign advocating uranium sales to India in contravention of Australia's Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty commitments.