Allegra Spender was elected as a teal MP representing the electorate of Wentworth in Sydney at the 2022 federal election. Her election ended a long history of the seat being a blue ribbon Liberal constituency. As Ms Spender explained in an address to The Sydney Institute on Tuesday 29 October 2024, her election was part [...]
In 2025, the Robert Menzies Institute published the third volume in its Menzies series – titled The Menzies Ascendency - Fortune, Stability, Progress 1954–1961. The Sydney launch took place at The Sydney Institute on Monday 3 February. The book was launched by former High Court judge The Hon Michael Kirby and The Australian’s Paul Kelly. [...]
Australia prides itself on its multicultural and socially cohesive nature. But in the months following the October 7 massacres in Israel, intolerance, even hatred, has seen a disturbing level of social division, especially in attacks both verbally and physically on Australian Jews. Julian Leeser, the Liberal member for Berowra in Sydney has long been a [...]
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 [...]
The Hon David Coleman MP is the Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, appointed to the position by Peter Dutton in late January 2025. In the Morrison Government, David Coleman served as Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs. As 2025 began, decisions by the newly installed US Trump administration had impacted on global relations [...]
As Australians waited to find out whether the prime minister would call an early federal election in 2025 or go his full term till May, opinions varied on what the outcome of that election might be. In this atmosphere, The Sydney Institute asked two younger contributors to the public debate to offer their sense of [...]
As Australians waited to find out whether the prime minister would call an early federal election in 2025 or go his full term till May, opinions varied on what the outcome of that election might be. In this atmosphere, The Sydney Institute asked two younger contributors to the public debate to offer their sense of [...]
Senator James Paterson, a Liberal senator for Victoria, is the Shadow Minister for Home Affairs and the Shadow Minister for Cyber Security. At a time of increasing concern over cyber security and global uncertainty, Senator Paterson believes: “Australia is facing the most complex and serious strategic circumstances since the end of the Second World War. [...]
In The Cronulla Riots – The Untold Story, Mark Goodwin and Craig Scully, retired NSW Police Assistant Commissioner and former NSW Police Minister respectively, explore what really happened as opposed to the press and media versions of the events. As the key figures tasked with restoring order during the chaos, they have revealed that much [...]
In The Cronulla Riots – The Untold Story, Mark Goodwin and Craig Scully, retired NSW Police Assistant Commissioner and former NSW Police Minister respectively, explore what really happened as opposed to the press and media versions of the events. As the key figures tasked with restoring order during the chaos, they have revealed that much [...]
