The Hon Patrick Gorman MP is the Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister, Assistant Minister to the Attorney-General and Assistant Minister for the Public Service. As arguments over the size of the Australian public service surfaced in the lead up to the 2025 federal election, Patrick Gorman was happy to state his case for continuing [...]
August 2024 marked 80 years since Robert Menzies brought together the dysfunctional groups of non Labor political associations and the remnants of the United Australia Party to found a new party to be called The Liberal Party of Australia. Over two conferences in Canberra and Albury at the end of 1944, the Party took roots [...]
August 2024 marked 80 years since Robert Menzies brought together the dysfunctional groups of non Labor political associations and the remnants of the United Australia Party to found a new party to be called The Liberal Party of Australia. Over two conferences in Canberra and Albury at the end of 1944, the Party took roots [...]
August 2024 marked 80 years since Robert Menzies brought together the dysfunctional groups of non Labor political associations and the remnants of the United Australia Party to found a new party to be called The Liberal Party of Australia. Over two conferences in Canberra and Albury at the end of 1944, the Party took roots [...]
Sworn in as prime minister in the week of the Wall Street Crash, in October 1929, James Scullin was bewildered and politically devoured by the economic and sociopolitical turmoil of the Great Depression. Scullin was Australia’s first Prime Minister of Catholic faith, which profoundly influenced him, though he saw secular and religious principles as compatible rather than [...]
In 2024, The Sydney Institute’s Annual Dinner Lecture was given by The Hon Michelle Rowland MP, Minister for Communications in the Albanese Labor Government. Her lecture captured thinking around the continuing regulation of digital platforms, especially with regard to minors. Her speech was a comprehensive overview of what citizens have come to regard as vital [...]
As Australians prepared to go to the polls in 2025, the chances of minority government after the federal election seemed real according to the polls. The increasing number of independents in the parliament also suggested the outcome would be unpredictable. The Hon Paul Fletcher, a former minister in the Turnbull and Morrison governments and Member [...]
Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower are two giants of Australian and international literature who were brought together by Shirley Hazzard’s mother who became Elizabeth Harrower’s friend. In a long and complicated correspondence over 40 years, the world they knew and wrote about comes to life, no longer the substance of their numerous novels but from [...]
Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute and director of its Jeanette and Eli Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. From 2005 to early 2007, he served as deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In that capacity, he served both as a senior [...]
August 2024 marked 80 years since Robert Menzies brought together the dysfunctional groups of non Labor political associations and the remnants of the United Australia Party to found a new party to be called The Liberal Party of Australia. Over two conferences in Canberra and Albury at the end of 1944, the Party took roots [...]
