Issue 2 | 20 April 2009 Dr. Nguyen Van Canh is the Director, Center for Vietnam Studies, San Jose, California and a former visiting scholar of the Hoover Institution on Peace, War and Revolution. He has written and presented critical analysis of Vietnam under socialism, Viet-US relations and China for over 30 years and has [...]
Issue 2 | 15 April 2009 Peter Hartcher has worked in Washington DC for the Australian Financial Review, and was a visiting fellow at The Lowy Institute in 2003. He is currently Chair Editor of The Diplomat and is the international and political editor for the Sydney Morning Herald. He has written widely on Australian [...]
Issue 2 | 7 April 2009 The Hon. Maxine McKew MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Early Childhood Education and Child Care, addressed The Sydney Institute on 7 April 2009. Before being elected to Federal Parliament, in 2007, Maxine McKew was a prominent broadcast and print journalist for 30 years. She began her address by outlining her [...]
Jenny Macklin is the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. She has been the Member for Jagajaga since March 1996 and on taking her seat in parliament immediately joined the Shadow Ministry. In her first term, she held a succession of portfolios covering Aged Care, Social Security, Family Services and the Status [...]
Issue 2 | 2 June 2009 Kate Legge is a multi award winning journalist who has covered federal politics out of Canberra and US presidential elections in Washington DC. She now writes on social affairs for The Australian. Her first novel, The Unexpected Elements of Love, (2006) was long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award. With the publication [...]
Issue 2 | 26 May 2009 Helen Pringle, a Presiding Member of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, has researched and written extensively on social and political issues – human rights, political theory, freedom of speech and, most recently, pornography. She was named UNSW Lecturer of the [...]
Issue 2 | 20 May 2009 Dr Matthew Levitt is a senior fellow and director of The Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at The Washington Institute. He is also a lecturer in international relations and strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). An expert in counter-terrorism [...]
Issue 2 | 19 May 2009 Tarek Heggy is an Egyptian businessman and intellectual, and perhaps the most prolific liberal writer in the Arab world. He is a no-holds-barred advocate of political and economic freedom and is both a leading liberal political thinker in the Arab world and International Petroleum Strategist. Tarek Heggy is also [...]
Issue 2 | 13 May 2009 On Wednesday 13 May 2009, Fiona Allon spoke to The Sydney Institute. Dr Fiona Allon is a lecturer at the University of Sydney and a recipient of an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship for the ARC Linkage grant. Her latest book Renovation Nation: Our Obsession with Home (UNSW Press) asks why [...]
Issue 2 | 12 May 2009 Kristin Williamson has been an actor, journalist, and teacher and is also the author of eight books. She addressed The Sydney Institute on Tuesday 12 May 2009, to discuss her latest book, David Williamson: Behind the Scenes, a biography of her husband, one of Australia’s best-known playwrights. She outlined [...]
