The Hon Prue Car is the Deputy Premier of New South Wales and Minister for Education and Early Learning. She is also the Minister responsible for Western Sydney. In a comprehensive speech to The Sydney Institute on Wednesday 22 July 2026, Prue Car outlined the significant changes to public education under the Minns Government. Founded [...]
On 9 September 2026, The Sydney Institute held its 37th Annual Dinner at the Fullerton Hotel, Sydney for five hundred guests. The guest speaker was The Hon Peter Malinauskas, Premier of South Australia. Born in Adelaide, to parents of Hungarian, Lithuanian and Irish descent, it was timely that the Premier chose to speak about Australia’s [...]
Population increases, home affordability issues and transport availability have all made planning reform a priority for state and local governments. Added to this is an unwieldy and overly complex bureaucracy that has grown and which is in need of overhaul. To explain some of the challenges and provide an insight into the Minns government’s planning [...]
Having published The Twilight of Exceptionalism - the third volume of a trilogy on modern Australian politics - Paul Kelly spoke about his book at The Sydney Institute on Monday 17 August 2026. The book charts a turbulent era of Liberal and conservative politics tracing the crisis besetting the Coalition and how Tony Abbott, Malcolm [...]
In Patrick Mullins’ The Stained Man he captures and retells an extraordinary tale – "A two-volume mystery!" Mark Twain called it – of the solicitor who incited a campaign to free a man he knew was guilty of attempted murder, who lost his reputation and ability to practise, and who embarked on a decades-long political [...]
Have Australians lost the ability to savour their history and culture? Its eccentric personalities, its battles of interests and its political and cultural leaders and their legacies. Nicholas Hasluck has spent a lifetime in the law, politics and the arts. As a former judge of the Western Australian supreme court, the author of numerous books [...]
The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG has many awards and honours to his name. His career has spanned well over half a century and his contribution to the promotion of human rights through the law has been outstanding. On Monday 25 May 2026, Michael Kirby addressed The Sydney Institute to discuss the publication of Law [...]
Mark Regev is currently the Chair of the Abba Eban Institute at Reichman University. Most recently, Ambassador Regev was the Israeli Prime Minister's Senior Advisor for Foreign Affairs and International Communications. Prior to this appointment, he served as Israel’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2016-2020 and as the Prime Minister’s Advisor and International Spokesperson [...]
As discussion mounted around the effects on contemporary and future society of Artificial Intelligence (AI), The Sydney Institute invited Justin Tauber, General Manager, Agentic Technology, Trust & Adoption, Salesforce ANZ and Roger Montgomery - founder and Chairman of Montgomery Investment Management Pty Limited to give their different views of the influence and change to come [...]
As discussion mounted around the effects on contemporary and future society of Artificial Intelligence (AI), The Sydney Institute invited Justin Tauber, General Manager, Agentic Technology, Trust & Adoption, Salesforce ANZ and Roger Montgomery - founder and Chairman of Montgomery Investment Management Pty Limited to give their different views of the influence and change to come [...]
