Malalai Joya was elected to the 249-seat National Assembly, or Wolesi Jirga, in September 2005, as a representative of Farah Province. Shei won the second highest number of votes in the province and rose to fame in December 2003 when, as an elected delegate to the Constitutional Loya Jirga, she spoke out publicly against the [...]
As the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, a contributor to the NATO-led military campaign in war-torn Afghanistan, Alexander Nalbandov made a visit to Sydney in 2010. Georgia has deployed 900 troops as part of the international coalition fighting Taliban militants. On Monday 15 November 2010, Alexander Nalbandov addressed The Sydney Institute. In his [...]
Professor Wendy Bacon is the Director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism and a well known Australian investigative journalist and non-practising lawyer. Her current research interests include the reporting of humanitarian and environment issues, finding innovative ways to combine investigative journalism with scholarly research and developing e learning projects around simulation games and blogs. [...]
Professor Martina Möllering is Head of International Studies and Professor Co-ordinator of German Studies at Macquarie University. One of her research interests is the linguistic analysis of Turkish-German identity construction as represented in literature and film. On Tuesday 16 December 2010, Professor Mollering joined Dr Christina Slade to address The Sydney Institute at the launch [...]
Janet Albrechtsen is a columnist for The Australian and a social and political commentator. From 2005-2010, Janet Albrechtsen was a member of the ABC Board. A conservative, in her chapter for The Liberals and Power Albrechtsen argued that the Liberals have become preoccupied with "dominating the rational low ground", and abandoning the moral high ground [...]
Christina Slade is Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at City University London. She was Dean of Humanities at Macquarie University from 2003-8 and has taught at a number of Universities including Universiteit Utrecht, as Professor of Media Theory, New York University, La Universidad Ibero Americana and the ITESM, in Mexico City. On Tuesday 16 December [...]
In the aftermath of the 2010 election, George Megalogenis began to analyse what had happened to politics in Australia. Was it a new phase, with minority government and the rise of the Greens and independents? Had the bold reforms of the Hawke, Keating and Howard years given way to powerful lobbies and the media, a [...]
Dr Tony Moore is a Senior Lecturer of Communications and Media Studies at Monash University and the Director of the National Centre for Australian Studies. He is also Director of the National Centre for Australian Studies and author of Death or Liberty: Rebels and Radicals Transported to Australia 1788-1868, (Pier 9, 2010). Tony Moore’s next [...]
UK Labour’s Rt Hon John Spellar is Shadow Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister and is well known in Australia, having visited many times. He is one of the best informed members of the House of Commons on Australia and its strategic interests. Before the UK 2010 election, John Spellar was a Minister in the Whip's [...]
