As a student, Claire Lehmann spent many years working in restaurants to help pay for her education. After graduation she joined the Commonwealth public service. The contrast in working ethos and conditions shocked her. In the public service, she witnessed low productivity and wasteful spending while reflecting on how hard working and risk taking her [...]
Speaker: Claire Lehmann - Founding editor of Quillette and columnist with The Australian Topic: Claire Lehmann - From Waitress, to Public Servant to Small Business Owner: A Comparison Date: Wednesday 17 June 2026 Zoom - Link sent on day of event OPEN TO ASSOCIATE MEMBERS & GUEST ONLY
Speaker: Claire Lehmann - Founding editor of Quillette and columnist with The Australian Topic: Claire Lehmann - From Waitress, to Public Servant to Small Business Owner: A Comparison Date: Wednesday 17 June 2026 Time: 5pm for 5.30pm start Venue: The Sydney Institute, 47 Phillip St, (bet Bent & Bridge) Sydney NSW 2000 LIGHT REFRESHMENTS OPEN TO ASSOCIATE MEMBERS [...]
The quality of journalism had been challenged in recent decades by the advance of social media and the internet. Increasingly, the need to make media pay has decreased serious content, reducing so-called news reporting often to over-sensationalised and panic-inducing reports to aggravate addictive followings. How to manage, if not push back against ,this mechanised take-over [...]
Speaker: Claire Lehmann (founder of Quillette and a regular contributor to The Australian) Topic: Journalism in the Age of Algorithms Date: Wednesday 22 March 2023 Time: 5.30 for 6pm Venue: The Sydney Institute, 47 Phillip Street, Sydney PLEASE NOTE: THIS MEETING IS FOR ASSOCIATE MEMBERS OF THE SYDNEY INSTITUTE ONLY & 1 GUEST - If [...]
Speaker: Claire Lehmann (founder of Quillette and a regular contributor to The Australian) Topic: Journalism in the Age of Algorithms Date: Wednesday 22 March 2023 Time: 5.30 for 6pm Venue: The Sydney Institute, 47 Phillip Street, Sydney PLEASE NOTE: THIS MEETING IS FOR ASSOCIATE MEMBERS OF THE SYDNEY INSTITUTE ONLY & 1 GUEST - If [...]
