In a speech to the staff of the Australian Broadcasting Commission in March 2010, ABC Chairman Maurice Newman said, “At the ABC, I believe we must re-energise the spirit of enquiry. Be dynamic and challenging – to look for contrary points of view, to ensure that the maverick voice will not be silenced.” As ABC [...]
On Monday 24 October 2011, The Hon Tony Smith MP, who is the Member for Casey and Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Tax Reform and Deputy Chairman, Coalition Policy Development Committee, launched Anne Henderson’s Joseph Lyons – The People’s Prime Minister in Melbourne. Tony Smith’s address on Joseph Lyons is published here as a reflection on [...]
Dr Martin Parkinson PSM, is Secretary to the Treasury. As Secretary, he is a member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Chair of the Advisory Board of the Australian Office of Financial Management, member of the Board of Taxation, Infrastructure Australia, Council of Financial Regulators and the Centre for International Finance and Regulation. [...]
On Tuesday 24 January 2012, David Irvine, Director-General of Security (ASIO), addressed a capacity crowd at The Sydney Institute to outline comprehensively the work of Australia’s Intelligence forces, their purpose and their importance to Australians both commercially and generally. David Irvine reminded his audience that, in the broadened definition of security threats, homeland security now [...]
On Tuesday 18 October, the Hon John Howard launched Anne Henderson’s Joseph Lyons – The People’s Prime Minister (New South Press). John Howard was introduced by Stuart Clark, a managing partner at Clayton Utz. Anne Henderson is Deputy Director of The Sydney Institute. Introduction – Stuart Clark Welcome to Clayton Utz. It is a real [...]
The Hon Pru Goward is the New South Wales Minister for Family and Community Services and Minister for Women. Her portfolio is one of the most complex and delicate to handle in terms of government policy and policy enforcement. As her department acknowledges, there are many reasons why children are at risk of abuse and [...]
One of Australia's most popular political commentators, Annabel Crabb is the ABC's chief online political writer. She has been a journalist for more than 12 years, covering national politics for 10. Before she became a journalist, Annabel completed arts and law degrees at the University of Adelaide, but decamped when a legal career threatened to [...]
Jonathan Mills is the director of the Edinburgh International Festival and the Artistic Adviser of the Melbourne Recital Centre. Born in Sydney, Mills studied architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology then graduated in music from the University of Sydney, studying composition under Peter Sculthorpe. He went on to become Artistic Director of the [...]
Robert Gray has been a writer-in-residence at Meiji University in Tokyo and at several Australian universities and has won the Adelaide Arts Festival and the New South Wales and Victorian Premiers' Awards for poetry, in addition to the Patrick White Award. Geoffrey Lehmann has published seven collections of poetry, including “Selected Poems” and “Collected Poems”, edited two [...]
Raheel Raza is an award winning writer, professional speaker, diversity consultant, documentary filmmaker, playwright and author of Their jihad... not my jihad; A Muslim Woman Speaks Out. Born in Pakistan, Raheel Raza now lives in Toronto, Canada, where she is a board member of the Muslim Canadian Congress and a freelance journalist. On a visit [...]
