Jane Gleeson-White has worked as an editor, writer and reviewer in Sydney and London since completing her degrees in English and Australian literature, and economics, at the University of Sydney in 1987. She also worked as a student at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice, where she studied Byzantine, early Renaissance and modern art. Her [...]
Barry Cohen AM served as the Member for Robertson from 1969-1990. During his time in parliament, he was Minister for Home Affairs (1983-84) and Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Environment (1984-87). Since leaving politics, Barry Cohen has taken to writing, with columns in The Bulletin, The Australian and The Spectator and as the author [...]
Jennifer Marohasy is an Australian biologist who works to worked to provide an important counterpoint in public debate and discussion. She is a regular speaker on environmental issues particularly as they relate to Australian agriculture, climate change and water reform. On Wednesday 8 February 2012, Jennifer Marohasy addressed The Sydney Institute to put the case for [...]
“Breaker” Morant was an Englishman who spent his early adulthood in New South Wales. In 1900, he joined the Boer War as a lieutenant in a British unit, the Bushveldt Carbineers. In action, Morant participated in the summary execution of several Boer (Afrikaner) prisoners and the killing of a German missionary. He was court-martialled and [...]
Lord Alistair McAlpine, businessman, collector and adventurer became a life peer in 1984. After Margaret Thatcher became leader of the UK Conservatives and opposition leader in 1975, she enlisted McAlpine as a party fundraiser and key party organiser. Alistair McAlpine has close ties to Australia, having once had business interests in Broome and elsewhere. During [...]
The history of Australian bushranger Frederick Ward who became known as Captain Thunderbolt is surrounded by folk lore and myth. But in her Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady, writer and historian Carol Baxter has uncovered the truth about the Thunderbolt story – and opened up a battle with the holders of the tale as told [...]
David Roberts, a senior lecturer at the University of New England the editor of the Journal of Australian Colonial History. His interest in Captain Thunderbolt developed out of the campaign against Carol Baxter’s history writing on the bushranger. The history of Australian bushranger Frederick Ward who became known as Captain Thunderbolt is surrounded by folk [...]
“Breaker” Morant was an Englishman who spent his early adulthood in New South Wales. In 1900, he joined the Boer War as a lieutenant in a British unit, the Bushveldt Carbineers. In action, Morant participated in the summary execution of several Boer (Afrikaner) prisoners and the killing of a German missionary. He was court-martialled and [...]
Professor Geoffrey Blainey is one of Australia's foremost historians and certainly its most prolific. In recent times, Professor Blainey has published A Short History of the World to which he has now added A Short History of Christianity. Geoffrey Blainey grew up a Methodist and admits that, in the West, "The outward signs of Christianity's [...]
