Ehud Ya'ari is Israel's most authoritative and influential foreign affairs analyst and commentator, having reported on the politics of The Middle East, particularly Palestinian affairs, since the 1970s. He now reports regularly for Israel's Channel Two Television Network and is an Associate Editor and Columnist for The Jerusalem Report newsmagazine. Ehud Ya'ari has written eight [...]
The Hon Nicholas Hasluck AM, QC is a former Judge and well-known also as a novelist. His novel The Bellarmine Jug won The Age Book of the Year Award. His books about the Whitlam era include Dismissal (Fourth Estate/Harper Collins, 2011) and Legal Limits (Federation Press, 2013). He has also edited two books which include [...]
NSW Labor leader John Robertson has a mission to define Labor once more as the party that cares. Over time, the electorate has viewed Labor as the compassionate party. Robertson argues that the cuts enacted by the Federal and State Liberals offer Labor an opportunity to re-state its founding belief in a more humane vision [...]
Dr Phil Lowe is Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, a position he has held since February 2012. He is also Deputy Chairman of the Reserve Bank Board, and is Chairman of the Reserve Bank's Risk Management Committee. Prior to his current role, Philip Lowe has held the positions of Assistant Governor [...]
Walter Zaryckyj is Executive Director of the Center for US-Ukrainian Relations (CUSUR). The Center provides "informational platforms" or venues for senior-level representatives of the political, economic, security, diplomatic and cultural/academic establishments of the United States and Ukraine to exchange views on a wide range of issues of mutual interest, and to showcase what has been referred to [...]
The Hon Julie Bishop is Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia and Member for Curtin, Western Australia. On Thursday 6 March 2014, Julie Bishop addressed The Sydney Institute to outline her approach to the job of foreign minister in a year when Australia holds the presidency of the G20. [...]
Jung Chang became an overnight sensation in the 1990s with the publication of Wild Swans, the story of her family and their account of life during China’s Cultural Revolution. She followed this up with a biography of Mao Tse Tung. Now she has tackled the life of Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908), the most important woman [...]
Kings Cross is a no-holds barred place, where backpackers, prostitutes, strippers, chefs, mad men, poets, beggars, booksellers, doctors, gangsters, sailors, musicians, drug traffickers, eccentrics, judges and artists live side by side. Part flaneur, part historian and part eyewitness, in Kings Cross – a biography, Louis Nowra - acclaimed writer, playwright, screenwriter and librettist - has [...]
Dr Martin Parkinson PSM is the Secretary to the Treasury. With an ageing population poor productivity growth over the last decade and falling commodity prices an terms of trade over the decade ahead, Martin Parkinson sees challenges confronting Australia which will need to be overcome if Australia is to ensure fiscal sustainability and deliver growth [...]
The Great War is, for many Australians, the event that defined our nation. The larrikin diggers, trench warfare, and the landing at Gallipoli have become the stuff of the Anzac “legend”. But it was also a war fought by the families at home. Professor Joan Beaumont is an internationally recognised historian of Australia in the [...]
