SPEAKER: MARGARET CAMERON-ASH (Author, Lying for the Admiralty: Captain Cook's Endeavour Voyage) DATE: Tuesday 28 May 2019 *Book from 14 May 2019** TIME: 5.30 for 6pm LIGHT REFRESHMENTS TOPIC: How The Great Navigator Missed Bass Strait – Looking Back at James Cook VENUE: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney
SPEAKER: PAUL KELLY (Editor at Large, The Australian and Author) & CAROLINE OVERINGTON (Associate Editor,The Australian and Author) DATE: Monday 20 May 2019 *Book from 6 April 2019** TIME: 5.30 for 6pm LIGHT REFRESHMENTS ***MEMBERS AND ONE GUEST ONLY*** TOPIC: A Night After the Election: Australian Politics Today VENUE: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor [...]
REBECCA HUNTLEY (Social Researcher & author, most recently of Quarterly Essay Australia Fair) & DR TANVEER AHMED (Psychiatrist, journalist and television presenter)
Speaker(s): Michael Danby MP (Member for Melbourne Ports) Date: 11 Feb 2019 Topic: Democratic Pushback: How to Confront the New Authoritarian Powers without Going to War Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 pm for 6 pm Book from: Now
Author of The Price of Fortune, The Untold Story of James Packer
In the midst of the political instability within many Western democracies, Australia is doing relatively well in the disruption stakes. Sure, Scott Morrison presides over a minority government, but with an election likely in May, and only eight sitting days in the House of Representatives before the budget is handed down on April 2, this [...]
