The results of the May 2025 federal election have opened up serious challenges for the Liberal Party opposition - not least of all the end of the coalition arrangements with the National Party. The full impact of what has happened has not yet been fully realised and the way ahead will be full of rebuilding [...]
As a modern-day Professor Henry Higgins might have said, Beatrice Faust is the voice who helped put today’s women in your life. “Beatrice Faust,” said Helen Garner, “is not scared of anybody.” Faust was the transformative feminist activist, writer and intellectual who founded the Women’s Electoral Lobby in Melbourne in 1972. She campaigned for abortion [...]
On 30 April 1975, the democratic government of South Vietnam collapsed as the North Vietnamese army captured Saigon. Under North Vietnamese control, thousands of South Vietnamese citizens were arrested and put in re-education camps leading to a mass exodus of refugees. With the election of the Liberal/National government of Malcolm Fraser in December 1975, Australia agreed [...]
Richard Holden is Professor of Economics at UNSW Business School and President of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Co-author, with Stephen Hamilton, of Australia’s Pandemic Exceptionalism. On Wednesday 14 May 2025, Richard Holden addressed The Sydney Institute to outline the good and bad in Australia’s response to the Covid pandemic explaining that while [...]
On Wednesday 30 April 2025, The Sydney Institute held a discussion of the Trump administration at the 100-day mark. After a breathtaking number of executive orders and administrative targeting of Trump enemies, the discussion evaluated the pros and cons of the Trump “correction”. Bruce Wolpe, commentator on US politics & Senior Fellow (non-resident) at the [...]
On Wednesday 30 April 2025, The Sydney Institute held a discussion of the Trump administration at the 100-day mark. After a breathtaking number of executive orders and administrative targeting of Trump enemies, the discussion evaluated the pros and cons of the Trump “correction”. Bruce Wolpe, commentator on US politics & Senior Fellow (non-resident) at the [...]
As the federal election campaign for 2025 came to an end, polls showed Labor comfortably ahead but predictions still uncertain about a minority governement outcome given the slim majority Labor won in 2022. To evalute the various party and independent candidates and the possible outcome, The Sydney Institute invited Mary Easson – former Labor MP [...]
As the federal election campaign for 2025 came to an end, polls showed Labor comfortably ahead but predictions still uncertain about a minority government outcome given the slim majority Labor won in 2022. To evaluate the various party and independent candidates and the possible outcome, The Sydney Institute invited Mary Easson – former Labor MP [...]
For decades, Malcolm MacKerras' electoral pendulum has been part of predicting the outcomes of Australia's elections. His pendulum for the federal election of 2025 was published along with his 600 word piece in The Daily Telegraph on Saturday 25 March 2025. What to make of it in these days of weekly polling from multiple sources? Malcolm Mackerras [...]
Adam Creighton is an Australian journalist who returned to Australia in 2025 after a stint as the Washington correspondent for The Australian. Creighton was previously the economics editor. He has also written for The Wall Street Journal and The Economist. Adam Creighton's recent time in the United States and Washington DC gave him a significant background in making an assessment [...]
