Dave Sharma – The Challenge for Australia: Raising our Competitive Edge
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THE CHALLENGE FOR AUSTRALIA: RAISING OUR COMPETITIVE EDGE – DAVE SHARMA
In a timely address to The Sydney Institute on Wednesday 15 October 2025, Senator Dave Sharma, Senator for New South Wales and former diplomat, examined Australia’s shrinking competitive advantage since 2000. Calling it Australia’s “Montreal moment” – comparing the economic statistics to Australia’s worst ever result at the Montreal Olympic Games in 1975 – Senator [...]
THE ISRAEL-HAMAS CONFLICT: AN AUSTRALIAN VIEW
Senator Dave Sharma was Australia's ambassador to Israel from 2013-2017. He previously served as head of the International Division of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. His appointment to the post in Israel, at the age of 37, made him one of Australia's youngest ambassadors and the second Australian ambassador of Indian heritage. In [...]
THE LIBERAL PARTY AND THE 2022 ELECTION
With the Liberal/National Coalition losing government after nine years at the 2022 federal election, The Sydney Institute asked two of Sydney’s best known Liberal voices to offer their take on what went wrong. On Tuesday 21 June, Senator Hollie Hughes and former Member for Wentworth Dave Sharma offered their views on what happened at the [...]
FROM FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES – A REFLECTION
On Tuesday 30 March 2021, Dave Sharma, Member for Wentworth and former Australian Ambassador to Israel, gave a Zoom address to The Sydney Institute 30 March 2021. His topic ranged broadly, picking up threads from his multicultural growing up and Australian identity through to international work with Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and on to [...]