SPEAKER: JAMES KIRCHICK (Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution; journalist & author The End of Europe: Dictators Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age [Yale, 2017]) DATE: Tuesday 20 August 2019 *Book from 5 August 2019** TIME: 5.30 for 6pm LIGHT REFRESHMENTS TOPIC: Far Left and Far Right Populism in Europe VENUE: The Sydney Institute, Level [...]
SPEAKER: SENATOR KIMBERLEY KITCHING (Deputy Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate; Shadow Assistant Minister for Government Accountability) & TIM WILSON MP (Liberal Member for Goldstein; Former Human Rights Commissioner) DATE: Wednesday 7 August 2019 *Book from 23 July 2019** TIME: 5.30 for 6pm LIGHT REFRESHMENTS ***MEMBERS & ONE GUEST ONLY*** TOPIC: [...]
SPEAKER: CHRIS KENNY (Author, columnist The Australian & Sky News presenter) & CHRIS MITCHELL (Columnist & former Editor-in-Chief, The Australian) DATE: Thursday 11 July **Book from 26 June 2019** TIME: 5.30 for 6pm LIGHT REFRESHMENTS TOPIC: The Media and Freedom of Speech – Two Views VENUE: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, [...]
SPEAKER: PROFESSOR GEOFFREY BLAINEY (Australia’s most significant & popular historian & Author (most recently) of Before I Forget) TIME: 5.30 for 6pm LIGHT REFRESHMENTS ***MEMBERS & ONE GUEST ONLY*** DATE: Wednesday 31 July 2019 *Book from 17 July 2019** TOPIC: A Life Writ Large – Geoffrey Blainey Remembers VENUE: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor [...]
SPEAKER: BRAD NORINGTON (Associate Editor at The Australian) & MICHAEL SEXTON SC (Author, The Great Crash: the short life and sudden death of the Whitlam Government) DATE: Monday 24 June 2019 **Book from 10 May 2019** TIME: 5.30 for 6pm LIGHT REFRESHMENTS TOPIC: Where to Now? Labor After the 2019 Federal Election VENUE: The [...]
SPEAKER: PROFESSOR ANNE PENDER (Professor of English & Theatre Studies - University of New England, Author, most recent Seven Big Australians [Monash University Publishing, April 2019]) DATE: Wednesday 24 July 2019 *Book from 10 July 2019** TIME: 5.30 for 6pm LIGHT REFRESHMENTS TOPIC: Adventures with Australian Comic Actors VENUE: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor [...]
SPEAKER: DR PATRICK MULLINS (Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Canberra & author of Tiberius with a Telephone: The Life and Stories of William McMahon) DATE: Wednesday 26 June 2019 **Book from 12 June 2019** TIME: 5.30 for 6pm LIGHT REFRESHMENTS TOPIC: Writing Biography in the 21st Century – The Life of William McMahon and Others [...]
SPEAKER: PROFESSOR GREG CRAVEN (Vice-chancellor, Australian Catholic University) & ANNE HENDERSON (Author, Patrick McMahon Glynn – Federation’s Man of Letters) DATE: Thursday 6 June 2019 **Book from 23 May 2019** TIME: 5.30 for 6pm LIGHT REFRESHMENTS TOPIC: Remembering Patrick McMahon Glynn VENUE: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney
