The 2013 Sydney Institute Dinner lecture was given by Dr Amanda Foreman, award-winning historian and international best-selling author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1998 Whitbread Prize for Biography) and A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire has been developed into a television documentary, a radio play starring Dame Judi [...]
Dr Kevin Donnelly was a secondary school teacher in Victoria for 18 years and is now one of Australia’s leading education authors and commentators and the Director of the Melbourne based Education Standards Institute. His most recent publication is Why Our Schools are Failing. On Tuesday 16 April 2013, Kevin Donnelly joined Jane Caro, novelist, [...]
Luca Bader, CEO of the Institute of European Democrats in Brussels and an Honorary Research Fellow at La Trobe University’s Centre for Dialogue. On Monday 22 April 2013, at The Sydney Institute, he joined Giulia Massotti is a project manager with the Institute of European Democrats, a research institute established in 2007 and based in Brussels in a discussion [...]
John M Green is an author, former merchant banker and non-executive director at Worley Parsons and QBE Insurance. His most recent novel, The Trusted, an eco-cyber-thriller, tackles the underworld surrounding the internet, government and business. As ever with a John Green novel the subject is both topical and farsighted. John Green’s earlier novels are Nowhere [...]
Science and scientific thinking play an ever-increasing role in our everyday lives. Governments need to make decisions, which should often be based on scientific evidence and arguments. In general, however, positive and flowing communication between these two groups is unusual. To give some understanding of why this is so, Herbert E Huppert, Professor of Theoretical Geophysics, [...]
Giulia Massotti is a project manager with the Institute of European Democrats, a research institute established in 2007 and based in Brussels. On Monday 22 April 2013, at The Sydney Institute, she joined Luca Bader, CEO of the Institute of European Democrats in Brussels and an Honorary Research Fellow at La Trobe University’s Centre for Dialogue in a discussion [...]
Senator Arthur Sinodinos AO is an expert on national politics, public policy issues and government and business leadership and was Chief of Staff to Prime Minister John Howard from 1997-2006. On 2 November 2011, Arthur Sinodinos replaced Senator Helen Coonan on her resignation from the Senate. At the time of his address, he was Shadow [...]
