Name: Professor Jocelyn Chey Bio: Author & Visiting Professor, Chinese Studies, University of Sydney Chinese “Soft Power” – Diplomacy and The Confucius Institutes - 19th November 2007 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.20 No.1 in 2008 (pages 33-48)
Name: Dr Catharine Lumby Bio: Director, Journalism & Media Research Centre, UNSW; Author, The Porn Report [Melbourne University Press, 2008 The Porn Report: The Good News and the Bad News - 20th May 2008 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.20 No.3 in 2008 (pages 7-14) The Great Moral Panic- Children and TV - 24th October [...]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Name: David Marr Bio: Journalist, author; political & social commentator The Rudd Prime Ministership - 10th August 2010 The Media and Australian Politics This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.17 No.1 in 2005 (pages 121-124) Following the 2004 federal election and Labor's loss, many leading media figures were criticised for wrongly forecasting a Labor victory [...]
Name: Michael Keating AC Bio: Former head of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and author, Who Rules? [Federation Press, 2004] Who Rules? How Government Retains Control of a Privatised Economy This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.17 No.1 in 2005 (pages 127-137) Michael Keating AC, former head of the Department of Prime Minister [...]
Name: Jennifer Horsfield Bio: Teacher, historian and author of Mary Cunningham: An Australian Life [Ginninderra Press] Isolation and Depression in Pre-Rural Australia: The Story of Mary Cunningham - 15th February 2005 Isolation and Depression in Rural Australia: The Story of Mary Cunningham This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.17 No.2 in 2005 (pages 1-11) Jennifer [...]
Name: Dr Marion Sawer Bio: Political scientist based at the Australian National University, leader of the Democratic Audit of Australia and author of Us and Them: Anti-Elitism in Australia The Elites: Who Are They Really This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.17 No.2 in 2005 (pages 13-19) For a decade now the term "elites" has been [...]
Name: Nell Schofield Bio: Film presenter on Showtime, film writer for Melbourne's Sunday Herald Sun, voiceover artist for ABC TV and author, most recently of Puberty Blues [Currency Press/Screensound, 2004] Australian Beach Culture - Puberty Blues Revisited This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.17 No.2 in 2005 (pages 35-44) Nell Schofield presents films on the [...]
Author of the award-winning biography Pompey Elliott, So Monstrous a Travesty: Chris Watson and the world's first national labour government [Scribe Publications] and Will Dyson: Australia's Radical Genius [Scribe Publications, 2006]
Name: Nahid Kabir Bio: Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the School of Communications and Multimedia at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia and author of Muslims in Australia: Immigration, Race Relations and Cultural History [Kegan Paul London, 2004] Muslims In Australia - 15th March 2005 Muslims In Australia: Immigration, Race Relations and Cultural History This [...]
Name: Dr John Edwards Bio: Author of Paul Keating's Biography The Inside Story, Chief Economist, HSBC Remembering John Curtin - 29th March 2005 Writing about Paul Keating - Inside The Inside Story - 6th November 1996 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.9 No.1 in 1997 (pages 10-17) Curtin's Gift This speech was printed in Sydney [...]
