The Sydney Institute’s Annual Dinner for 2014 was a gala event for close to 1000 guests in celebration of its twenty-five years anniversary. Sponsored by Telstra, the Dinner was held at The Star on Wednesday 28 April and the guest of honour for the evening was The Hon Tony Abbott Prime Minister of Australia. Tony [...]
From the 1950s to the 1970s, the work of Lloyd Wright, Gropius and Mies Van Der Rohe strongly influenced a generation of young Australian architects, who adopted modernist principles in their work. Karen McCartney has examined significant examples of Australian homes from this period, each designed by a different architect, that combine outstanding architectural principles [...]
On Tuesday 1 July 2014, The Hon Barry O’Farrell launched Anne Henderson’s Menzies at War (NewSouth 2014). In response to Barry O’Farrell’s comments on the book, Anne Henderson responded to outline the thesis of the book, and its revisionist approach to many of the popular myths about Robert Menzies’ wartime government. Anne Henderson is an [...]
