With just three weeks of campaigning to go, The Sydney Institute invited The Hon Pru Goward, Director, Bespoken Consulting and former Minister for Housing and Darrin Barnett, media and government Relations professional former Labor ministerial advisor to lead a discussion on the issues and party prospects in the 2025 federal election. As the Trump administration [...]
On the anniversary of the eightieth year since the liberation of the Auschwitz death and extermination camp under the Nazis of World War II, Australia’s Defence Minister delivered a powerful speech attacking anti-Semitism in Australia and globally. In his words, the anti-Semitism he had witnessed in Australia following the Hamas attacks of October 7 (2023) [...]
In 2025, Senator Jacinto Nampijinpa Price released her memoir – Matters of The Heart. It is a story that is honest, raw and at times heartbreaking, and a deeply personal reflection of how a young Indigenous woman, growing up surrounded by violence and tragedy, beat the odds to become one of the most powerful political voices [...]
Ehud Yaari is an Israel-based Lafer international fellow of The Washington Institute. He has been a Middle East commentator for Israel's Channel Twelve television since 1975 and is former associate editor of Jerusalem Report. Among his numerous awards for journalism are the Israeli Press Editors-in-Chief prize for coverage of the peace process with Egypt, the Sokolov [...]
In 2025, the Robert Menzies Institute published the third volume in its Menzies series – titled The Menzies Ascendency - Fortune, Stability, Progress 1954–1961. The Sydney launch took place at The Sydney Institute on Monday 3 February. The book was launched by former High Court judge The Hon Michael Kirby and The Australian’s Paul Kelly. [...]
The Hon Patrick Gorman MP is the Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister, Assistant Minister to the Attorney-General and Assistant Minister for the Public Service. As arguments over the size of the Australian public service surfaced in the lead up to the 2025 federal election, Patrick Gorman was happy to state his case for continuing [...]
August 2024 marked 80 years since Robert Menzies brought together the dysfunctional groups of non Labor political associations and the remnants of the United Australia Party to found a new party to be called The Liberal Party of Australia. Over two conferences in Canberra and Albury at the end of 1944, the Party took roots [...]
August 2024 marked 80 years since Robert Menzies brought together the dysfunctional groups of non Labor political associations and the remnants of the United Australia Party to found a new party to be called The Liberal Party of Australia. Over two conferences in Canberra and Albury at the end of 1944, the Party took roots [...]
August 2024 marked 80 years since Robert Menzies brought together the dysfunctional groups of non Labor political associations and the remnants of the United Australia Party to found a new party to be called The Liberal Party of Australia. Over two conferences in Canberra and Albury at the end of 1944, the Party took roots [...]
