On Saturday 18 May 2019, Australia voted and the opinion polls were wrong. Prime Minister Scott Morrison pulled off what had been predicted to be an impossible win. In March 2019, at The Sydney Institute, Caroline Overington and Paul Kelly could not see the Coalition winning. On Monday 20 May 2019, author and Associate Editor [...]
SPEAKER: PAUL KELLY (Editor at Large, The Australian and Author) & CAROLINE OVERINGTON (Associate Editor,The Australian and Author) DATE: Monday 20 May 2019 *Book from 6 April 2019** TIME: 5.30 for 6pm LIGHT REFRESHMENTS ***MEMBERS AND ONE GUEST ONLY*** TOPIC: A Night After the Election: Australian Politics Today VENUE: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor [...]
With a federal election looming by May 2019, and the polls for many months predicting an easy win for the Labor opposition led by Bill Shorten, The Sydney Institute held a seminar evening discussion on Wednesday 6 March 2019. Leading the discussion were Paul Kelly, commentator, columnist The Australian, editor and author and Caroline Overington, [...]
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Speaker(s): Paul Kelly (Journalist and author) & Caroline Overington (Columnist,The Australian & author) Date: 6 Mar 2019 Topic: A Night Before the Election: Australian Politics Today Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm Book from: Now
In 2018, Australian federal politics went through some headline grabbing times – but what to make of the froth and bubble in much of the turmoil? Is social media out of control? Has tabloid media reporting side tracked serious debate? Or have our leaders become too distanced from ordinary lives to realise what is most [...]
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Speaker(s): Caroline Overington (Associate Editor, The Australian) & Aaron Patrick (Senior writer, The Australian Financial Review) Date: 2018-03-21 Topic: Turnbull, Joyce, Shorten and all that – What’s Happening? Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm Book from: 7 March 2018
Caroline Overington is Associate editor of The Australian and an award winning author, most recently of The Last Woman Hanged. During the 2016 election campaign, The Australian Financial Review’s Aaron Patrick joined Caroline Overington to present their views on the way the campaign was unfolding. It was an entertaining event. To follow up, The Sydney [...]
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