Reporting from war zones and places of trouble across the world consumes our multi media stage. Until recently, however, women were at the back of the queue in the ranks of those who sent back news of global disasters. Not anymore. Today women reporters go anywhere and they have changed the nature of reporting and [...]
Reporting from war zones and places of trouble across the world consumes our multi media stage. Until recently, however, women were at the back of the queue in the ranks of those who sent back news of global disasters. Not anymore. Today women reporters go anywhere and they have changed the nature of reporting and [...]
Gladys Berejiklian was Australia's rockstar premier. The first woman elected to lead NSW, she steered the state through devastating bushfires, drought and a once-in-a-generation pandemic with a steady hand and successfully navigated the waves of COVID with a sterling reputation as a dedicated and reliable public servant. But, Berejiklian was harbouring a secret, revealed during [...]
As the 25th prime minister of Australia, The Hon John Howard MP managed to outlast all his predecessors, becoming the second longest serving Australian prime minister and bettered only by Sr Robert Menzies. In retirement, John Howard has written two best selling books - a personal memoir and a political evaluation of Robert Menzies. In [...]
With the world headlines focussed on the war in Ukraine, media attention in early 2022 drifted away from close attention to happenings in Iran – in spite of US President Joe Biden’s moves to reinstate the Obama nuclear agreement nuclear with Iran. On a visit to Australia, sponsored by the Australia and Israel Jewish Affairs [...]
With the votes still being counted in many seats following the 2022 federal election, The Sydney Institute held a briefing on what might be expected on Wednesday 25 May 2022. Ticky Fullerton - Editor-at-Large at The Australian Business Review - joined Gerard Henderson, executive director of The Sydney Institute to pose some scenarios. At the time [...]
In 2022, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky became the unlikely hero of the second decade of the twenty-first century. He led and inspired his country—and the entire free world—in the fight against the Russian invasion that began in February 2022, in which Russian President Vladimir Putin became regarded as a war criminal. The war in Ukraine [...]
As the Albanese government settled in following Labor’s win at the 21 May 2022 federal election, The Sydney Institute held a series of talks on what the new government might reflect and what the election had meant for Australia generally. On Tuesday 7 June 2022, two of Australia’s best political commentators – Troy Bramston, Senior [...]
As the Albanese government settled in following Labor’s win at the 21 May 2022 federal election, The Sydney Institute held a series of talks on what the new government might reflect and what the election had meant for Australia generally. On Tuesday 7 June 2022, two of Australia’s best political commentators – Troy Bramston, Senior [...]
Margaret Cunneen SC is the boxing butterfly who turned the tables on the ICAC, amidst prosecuting murderers, pedophiles and rapists, going on to launch a new life chapter as a defence barrister. There were the irreverent Skafs for gang rape, Robert “Dolly” Dunn for pedophilia, the Butcher of Bega for unspeakable medical malpractice and the [...]
