Delia Falconer is a senior lecturer at the University of Technology in Sydney and an acclaimed writer – most recently of Sydney (New South Press). Her two novels are the bestselling The Service of Clouds, (short listed for major literary awards including the Miles Franklin, NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, and the [...]
Associate Professor and author Penny Russell is fascinated by snobs and social climbers, scandals large and small, and the mysterious ways people lived, loved and learned in times past. Firmly wedded to the nineteenth century, Russell avidly pursues the “small talk” of history in Australia and England, finding within private writing and the intimacies of [...]
The Hon Chris Bowen MP was sworn in as the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship on 14 September 2010. He was born and grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney and in 1998-9 was Mayor of Fairfield. His electorate of McMahon takes in suburbs west of Sydney’s Fairfield and Prospect and is the heart [...]
Barry Humphries has twice written his life in autobiographies – with different takes on the same life. But neither account gives the whole story. Dr Anne Pender took years researching, interviewing and delving into the real Barry Humphries to produce a more comprehensive story. Her book, One Man Show, examines the life, and the aspirations [...]
Sydney Morning Herald columnist Richard Ackland has spent more than 30 years in journalism and publishing. He has also hosted Late Night Live on ABC Radio National and later the network's breakfast program Daybreak. In 1999, he won a Gold Walkley award for his work as writer and presenter of ABC TV's Media Watch. Richard [...]
Gerard Henderson, Executive Director of The Sydney Institute, is also a weekly columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald. In his weekly Sydney Institute blog Media Watch Dog, Gerard Henderson has become a regular critic of Australia’s mainsteam media, in particular some of its left leaning personalities. On Wednesday 27 January 2011, Gerard Henderson joined Richard [...]
Chin Jin is a Chinese-born Australian who has lived in NSW since 1988. He has been active in the overseas Chinese democratic movement since early 1989. Chin Jin is an MA graduate of the University of Western Sydney, and has written widely on Human Rights and the political structure of China. He hosted the Dalai [...]
Wu'er Kaixi made his name as one of the prominent student leaders in the Tiananmen Square student protests of 1989. He fled to France, then studied at Harvard University and afterwards emigrated to Taiwan, where he was a talk show host for a local radio station from 1998 to 2001, also appearing frequently on television [...]
Jeffrey Simpson, national affairs columnist for Canada’s Globe and Mail, is the recipient of all three leading Canadian literary prizes. Author of six books, Jeffrey Simpson speaks at dozens of major conferences here and abroad on a variety of domestic and international issues and is a regular television contributor. On Thursday 18 November 2010, Jeffrey [...]
Professor Anne Twomey, from Sydney University Law School, has also worked for the High Court of Australia as a Senior Research Officer, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Research Service as a researcher in the Law and Government Group, the Commonwealth Senate as Secretary to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee, and The Cabinet Office of NSW as [...]
