With the Liberal/National Coalition losing government after nine years at the 2022 federal election, The Sydney Institute asked two of Sydney’s best known Liberal voices to offer their take on what went wrong. On Tuesday 21 June, Senator Hollie Hughes and former Member for Wentworth Dave Sharma offered their views on what happened at the [...]
With the Liberal/National Coalition losing government after nine years at the 2022 federal election, The Sydney Institute asked two of Sydney’s best known Liberal voices to offer their take on what went wrong. On Tuesday 21 June, Senator Hollie Hughes and former Member for Wentworth Dave Sharma offered their views on what happened at the [...]
An anti-missile defence integrated system to confront the threats posed by the Iranians wagered between Israel and Arab nations such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE is what Ehud Yaari calls a “big time” development. But increasingly it is a reality. Meanwhile the Palestinian issue no longer dominates thinking mong the big Arab players. And [...]
Dame Leonie Kramer held the Chair of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney from 1968 to 1989 and was dubbed "Killer Kramer" by Nobel laureate and nemesis Patrick White. Dame Leonie was the first woman to be a professor at Sydney University and the first to serve as its chancellor and as the ABC’s [...]
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 [...]
Amei Li grew up in Red China, the daughter of a former business owner. In her memoir Pink Flower - Growing Up in Mao’s China, she describes the austerity of the Great Hunger (officially the Great Leap Forward) and later the terror and turmoil of the Cultural Revolution. Instead of studying medicine at university she [...]
Economist and Labor MP Daniel Mulino for Fraser is also the author of Safety Net – The Future of Welfare in Australia. In his book, Daniel Mulino explains how the Australian welfare state was created - and what we need to do to protect and extend it. The welfare state is one of the crowning [...]
Being a director of a listed company is fast becoming more complex and less attractive… and yet the role has never been more important. Nearly 30 years after his seminal exploration of boards and governance in Strictly Boardroom, published as part of a Sydney Institute initiative, Professor Fred Hilmer AO has revisited the state of leadership [...]
Former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia Murray Gleeson in Recognition in keeping with the Constitution: a worthwhile project opined, “That Indigenous people have a special, and unique, status in the history and the life of the nation is beyond question. That the Constitution is an appropriate place in which to recognise that status is a [...]
