There has been much said about Australia’s housing crisis in 2024. But there are many ideas floating as to how best to solve the problem - build better; build faster; build more to rent; build cheaper to buy. The Liberal/National Coalition has ideas too. Senator Andrew Bragg as shadow minister for housing sees an imbalance [...]
In his latest book The Shortest History of Economics, The Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities & Treasury & Assistant Minister for Employment tackles a big subject in a compact form – examining the financial forces that shaped our existence as humans. From ancient times to the modern world, Leigh explores [...]
Since coming to government, Australia’s Trade Minister Senator The Hon Don Farrell has worked hard to re-establish Australia’s good trading relations with China. Acknowledging that, in the case of China, “we started with $20 billion worth of trade impediments by 2019 figures,” adding that this number has now been reduced to less than a billion [...]
The Hon Richard Marles is Australia’s Minister for Defence. On his watch, since the federal election of 2021 and the election of the Albanese Labor government, the historic trilateral security agreement known as AUKUS – between the US, Australia and the UK – whereby Australia will acquire US nuclear submarines, has been developed and secured [...]
The Hon Rose Jackson has a lot on her ministerial plate - responsibility for some of NSW's biggest concerns. In addition to housing, water and homelessness, Ms Jackson also is the Minister for Mental Health, Youth and the North Coast. One of Premier Chris Minns' younger ministers, Rose Jackson comes to her portfolios with stacks [...]
The Albanese Government's 2024 industrial relations reform legislation generated tension with employers who saw it as a hand shake with the union movement. Others saw it as a long overdue update on handling the gig economy and increasing use of casual labour. Two voices at the centre of the debate - Jessica Tinsley, Director Workplace [...]
The Albanese Government's 2024 industrial relations reform legislation generated tension with employers who saw it as a hand shake with the union movement. Others saw it as a long overdue update on handling the gig economy and increasing use of casual labour. Two voices at the centre of the debate - Jessica Tinsley, Director Workplace [...]
In Sydney, on a visit from Israel, Ehud Yaari, author and commentator on Middle East politics, addressed The Sydney Institute on Wednesday 27 March 2024. Ehud Yaari, who spent years reporting from Egypt, gave a prescient assessment of the continuing war in Gaza and the hopes for peace and resettlement in the post war era. [...]
Mental health may well have been behind the success of many modern leaders. It is the professional assessment of Professor Gordon Parker, that Winston Churchill was one such leader and has written a play dramatizing behaviour in Churchill’s wartime life that suggests his mental condition showed he had a bipolar disorder. Currently a Scientia Professor [...]
What was the story behind Bob Hawke’s famed biography? Why does Paul Keating think biographies of serving politicians are "like Polaroids of a busy life" while John Howard considers them a big mistake? Where is the "missing" Menzies biography? And, why are our early prime ministers largely absent from historical memory? Chris Wallace Australian is [...]
