The Hon Josh Frydenberg was elected Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party on August 2018. Prime Minister Scott Morrison soon after appointed him Australia’s treasurer. As the member for Kooyong since 2010, Josh Frydenberg is one of the rising stars of the Liberal Party. On Tuesday 22 January 2019, Josh Frydenberg gave a major address [...]
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, The Sydney Institute held an early evening seminar to discuss the causes of the Global Financial Crisis then unfolding. The speakers were Mark Johnson, a former Chairman of Macquarie Bank, Dr John Edwards, Chief Economist with HSBC and Dr Timo Henckel, a Research Fellow with the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic [...]
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, The Sydney Institute held an early evening seminar to discuss the causes of the Global Financial Crisis then unfolding. The speakers were Mark Johnson, a former Chairman of Macquarie Bank, Dr John Edwards, Chief Economist with HSBC and Dr Timo Henckel, a Research Fellow with the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic [...]
Senator Helen Coonan is the Shadow Minister for Finance, Competition Policy and Deregulation and, on Tuesday 31 March 2009, addressed The Sydney Institute to put the Opposition’s case against the government’s response to the Global Financial Crisis. Reminding the audience that Australia had entered the GFC in better economic shape than comparable Western nations, thanks [...]
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, The Sydney Institute held an early evening seminar to discuss the causes of the Global Financial Crisis then unfolding. The speakers were Mark Johnson, a former Chairman of Macquarie Bank, Dr John Edwards, Chief Economist with HSBC and Dr Timo Henckel, a Research Fellow with the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic [...]
What is happening to the teaching of history? Academics like Anna Clark believe that for many Australian school students, learning about their nation’s history is about as bad as history gets. For Mark Lopez, bias and political correctness has censored out many of the facts of the past for a record of alienation or denial. [...]
H.E Maxime Verhagen, Netherlands Minister for Foreign Affairs, addressed The Sydney Institute on Tuesday 20 January 2009, an important time in global affairs – as the US welcomed its new president Barack Obama and a change of administration and as the war in Afghanistan entered a new and more dangerous phase. Maxime Verhagen stressed the [...]
What is happening to the teaching of history? Academics like Anna Clark believe that for many Australian school students, learning about their nation’s history is about as bad as history gets. For Mark Lopez, bias and political correctness has censored out many of the facts of the past for a record of alienation or denial. [...]
On Monday 23 March 2009, as the Global Financial Crisis continued to deepen, Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan addressed The Sydney Institute. His message was frank but also one of steady resolve that Australia and Australians in general had the strength and talent to withstand a long period of ecinomic challenge. In his speech, Wayne Swan [...]
In March, the federal Minister for Housing and the Status of Women, The Hon Tanya Plibersek, announced that more than 31,000 public and community homes in NSW – including 7845 that are uninhabitable – will be repaired and upgraded under the federal government’s economic stimulus plan. Some $130 million would be spent over two years [...]
