The Sydney Institute's Previous Functions

View archived functions for the following years:

Date: Thursday 2 September 2010
Speaker: Tim Fischer AC
Topic: Mary MacKillop – A View from Rome
Time: 10:30 for 11:00am
Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney
Additional Notes: Light Refreshments

*Note this function will also launch Anne Henderson’s Mary MacKillop’s Sisters: A Life Unveiled - canonisation year updated edition

Date: Thursday 2 September 2010
Speaker: Wayne Swan
Topic: Labor’s Economic Plan and the Stability and Prosperity Australians Deserve
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney
Additional Notes: ASSOCIATES AND ONE GUEST ONLY
Date: Tuesday 31 August 2010
Speaker: Fred Hilmer
Topic: What’s wrong with microeconomic reform today?
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: Gilbert &Tobin, Citigroup Tower, Level 37, 2 Park Street (between George & Pitt Street), Sydney
Date: Tuesday 24 August 2010
Speaker: Paul Kelly, Peter Hartcher and Claire Harvey
Topic: The Federal Election Campaign – What Happened?
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney
Date: Tuesday 17 August 2010
Speaker: Paul Cleary
Topic: Timor 1942 - Australia’s Special Commando Campaign
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000
Additional Notes: LIGHT REFRESHMENTS
Date: Tuesday 10 August 2010
Speaker: David Marr and Nicholas Stuart
Topic: The Rudd Prime Ministership
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: Gilbert &Tobin, Citigroup Tower, Level 37, 2 Park Street (between George & Pitt Street), Sydney
Date: Thursday 5 August 2010
Speaker: David Gonski and Elizabeth Broderick
Topic: Board Representation: Balancing the Gender Mix
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney
Date: Tuesday 3 August 2010
Speaker: Kate Jennings and Shelley Gare
Topic: Trouble: the art of sticking your head above the parapet
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney
Date: Tuesday 27 July 2010
Speaker: Tony Abbott
Topic: Social Policy under the Coalition
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: To be Advised
Additional Notes: - PLEASE NOTE: $15 for members and $25 for non-members -
Date: Tuesday 20 July 2010
Speaker: Lenore Taylor and David Uren
Topic: The Inside Story of the Rudd Government’s First Term
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney
Date: Thursday 15 July 2010
Speaker: Paul Davey and Fiona Nash
Topic: 90 Not Out: The Nationals 1920-2010
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney
Date: Wednesday 14 July 2010
Speaker: Ehud Ya'ari
Topic: Armistice Now: An Interim Agreement for Israel and Palestine
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: 41 Phillip St, Sydney
Additional Notes: [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS]
Date: Tuesday 13 July 2010
Speaker: Bill Shorten
Topic: The future of disability in Australia: winning the battle for equal treatment
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney
Date: Tuesday 6 July 2010
Speaker: Valerie Lawson
Topic: Remembering Pamela Travers: Creator of Mary Poppins
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: 41 Phillip St, Sydney
Additional Notes: [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS]
Date: Tuesday 29 June 2010
Speaker: Claire McCarthy
Topic: The Waiting City - Making Australian Movies in India
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney
Date: Monday 28 June 2010
Speaker: Nicola Roxon
Topic: From Little Things Big Things Grow
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: PricewaterhouseCoopers Tower, L10 Sydney Room, Darling Harbour, 201 Sussex Street, Sydney
Date: Tuesday 22 June 2010
Speaker: Jennifer Hewett and George Megalogenis
Topic: Mining, the Super Profits Tax and the Australian Economy
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney
Date: Tuesday 15 June 2010
Speaker: Judith Keene
Topic: Treason on the Radio: The British John Amery, Australian Charles Cousens and American “Tokyo Rose” Iva Toguri
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney
Additional Notes: [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS] [NOTE CHANGE OF DATE]
Date: Wednesday 9 June 2010
Speaker: Stephen Holt
Topic: Alan Reid and the 36 Faceless Men
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: 41 Phillip St, Sydney
Additional Notes: LIGHT REFRESHMENTS
Date: Wednesday 2 June 2010
Speaker: Andrew Robb AO MP
Topic: Dealing with Debt and Rebuilding Resilience
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney
Date: Tuesday 25 May 2010
Speaker: Desmond O'Grady
Topic: My Life in Italy: Tales about Shirley Hazard, Peter Robb, Morris West, Doris Lessing and others
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: 41 Phillip St, Sydney
Additional Notes: [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS]
Date: Tuesday 18 May 2010
Speaker: James Curran and Stuart Ward
Topic: Nationhood Before Gough Whitlam: Australia in the 1960s
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney
Additional Notes: [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS]
Date: Tuesday 11 May 2010
Speaker: Neville Meaney
Topic: Did Australia Fight Other Peoples’ Wars? Australia and the World Crisis: 1914-1923
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney
Additional Notes: [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS]
Date: Tuesday 4 May 2010
Speaker: Margaret Kelly and Susan Ryan
Topic: Australia Without A Charter of Rights – Two Views
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney
Date: Wednesday 28 April 2010
Speaker: Jana Wendt
Topic: In Depth Working Lives
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney
Date: Tuesday 27 April 2010
Speaker: Patricia Anderson
Topic: Robert Hughes – The Australian Years
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney
Additional Notes: [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS]
Date: Tuesday 20 April 2010
Speaker: Janda Gooding
Topic: Revisiting Gallipoli
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney
Additional Notes: [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS]
Date: Thursday 15 April 2010
Speaker: Julia Gillard
Topic: A Fair Future for All – School Funding in Australia
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61 Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney
Date: Monday 12 April 2010
Speaker: Stephen Conroy
Topic: Reform Unleashes Transformation
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney
Date: Wednesday 7 April 2010
Speaker: Craig Emerson MP
Topic: Why Productivity Growth Needs Competition
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney
Date: Wednesday 24 March 2010
Speaker: Chris Evans
Topic: Irregular Migration - The Global Challenge
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney
Date: Tuesday 9 March 2010
Speaker: Lucy Howard-Taylor
Topic: Modern Girls and Anorexia
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney
Additional Notes: [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS]
Date: Wednesday 3 March 2010
Speaker: Lavina Lee
Topic: Why Australia should sell Uranium to India
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney
Additional Notes: [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS]
Date: Monday 1 March 2010
Speaker: Martin Ferguson
Topic: A New Age of Energy
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney
Date: Tuesday 23 February 2010
Speaker: Ric Battellino
Topic: Mining Booms and the Australian Economy
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney
Date: Tuesday 16 February 2010
Speaker: Miranda Devine
Topic: Older and Wiser – Remembering Frank Devine
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney
Date: Monday 15 February 2010
Speaker: Jonty Olliff-Cooper
Topic: Progressive Conservatism in Contemporary Britain
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: Gilbert & Tobin, Citigroup Tower, Level 37, 2 Park Street, Sydney
Date: Tuesday 2 February 2010
Speaker: Gerard Henderson and Ross Fitzgerald
Topic: Launch of Ross Fitzgerald’s memoirs My Name is Ross: An Alcoholic’s Journey [UNSW Press, 2010]
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney
Date: Wednesday 27 January 2010
Speaker: Don Watson, Sue Butler and David Malouf
Topic: Bad Language
Time: 5:00 for 5:30pm
Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney
Additional Notes: PLEASE NOTE EARLY START
Date: Thursday 21 January 2010
Speaker: Embesat Khan
Topic: Pakistan Today
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney
Additional Notes: [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS]
Date: Thursday 14 January 2010
Speaker: Tony Abbott
Topic: Practical Environmentalism
Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm
Venue: Perth Room, Sofitel Sydney Wentworth, 61-101 Phillip Street, Sydney