THE PARADOXES OF WAR THE CAUSES OF WAR (Fourth Edition) By Geoffrey Blainey, Scribner 2025 ISBN13: 9781761635236 RRP $49.99 (HB) Reviewed by Geoffrey Lehmann Geoffrey Blainey’s The Causes of War, was first published in 1973. Now in its fourth edition in 2025, it has been updated for the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. A new [...]
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Bruce Pascoe’s book, Dark Emu was published in March 2014. Praised by leftist revisionist historians it won awards and became part of education in schools about Indigenous Australian first peoples. The fundamental thesis of the book is that Indigenous Australians were not hunter gatherers at all but had a developed an agrarian economy along the lines of [...]
Register for the Zoom talk. Bookings open to Members only. The link will be sent out the day of the event. Speakers: Geoffrey Blainey Warren Mundine Date: Tuesday 26 October 2021 5pm Dark Emu, Bruce Pascoe and the Hunter/Gatherer Controversy Australian Eastern Standard Time NOTE THAT THIS MEETING IS FOR MEMBERS OF THE SYDNEY INSTITUTE [...]
Now in his late-eighties, and listed by the National Trust as a “Living Treasure”, Geoffrey Blainey has now published the first volume of his memoires - Before I Forget. In it, he reflects on his humble beginnings as the son of a Methodist Minister and school teacher, one of five children, and a carefree childhood spent [...]
SPEAKER: PROFESSOR GEOFFREY BLAINEY (Australia’s most significant & popular historian & Author (most recently) of Before I Forget) TIME: 5.30 for 6pm LIGHT REFRESHMENTS ***MEMBERS & ONE GUEST ONLY*** DATE: Wednesday 31 July 2019 *Book from 17 July 2019** TOPIC: A Life Writ Large – Geoffrey Blainey Remembers VENUE: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor [...]
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ASSOCIATES & 1 ASSOCIATE GUEST ONLY Speaker(s): Geoffrey Blainey Date: 2015-05-06 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8 Chifley Square (entrance from Hunter Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm
The long Aboriginal occupation of Australia witnessed spectacular changes. The rising of the seas isolated the continent and preserved a nomadic way of life as agriculture revolutionised other parts of the world. Over millennia, the Aboriginal people mastered the land's climates, seasons and reserves. Traditional Aboriginal life came under threat the moment Europeans crossed the [...]
