Issue 3 | 22 June 2009 The Hon John Hatzistergos is the NSW Attorney General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Vice President of the NSW Executive Council. Since entering parliament in 1999, he has handled a number of high profile portfolios, including Health, Justice and Fair Trading. He was also senior lawyer for the Commonwealth [...]
Issue 3 | 16 June 2009 David Gruen is the Executive Director of the Macroeconomic Group at the Australian Treasury. David Gruen moved to the Treasury from the Economic Analysis and Economic Research Departments at the Reserve Bank of Australia. With financial support from a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship, David was visiting lecturer in the Economics [...]
Issue 3 | 10 June 2009 Professor Henry Ergas is a leading economic policy advisor and author of Resolving Australia’s Telecommunications Impasse. He is currently an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Economics at Monash University. In 2005, he led the Secretary-General’s Task Force on Structural Adjustment at the OECD and has advised the Australian [...]
Issue 3 | 12 August 2009 The Hon Tony Abbott is the Federal Member for Warringah and Shadow Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. He served in Cabinet during the Howard government as Minister for Employment and Minister for Health and Ageing. He is a staunch supporter of constitutional monarchy and has [...]
Issue 3 | 5 August 2009 The Hon Simon Crean is Minister for Trade in the Rudd Labor goernment. Prior to his election to parliament in 1990, Simon Crean was President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. As an MP, Crean has held a number of portfolios, including Primary Industries, Employment and Shadow Treasury [...]
Issue 3 | 28 July 2009 Dr Tanveer Ahmed has a unique multidisciplinary background. A prominent voice in the media, he writes for the Sydney Morning Herald, has worked as a foreign affairs television journalist for SBS and he is an appointee to the Advertising Standards Board. He is also a member of the governing [...]
Issue 3 | 21 July 2009 Anne Summers has been the Canberra Bureau Chief for the Australian Financial Review, Editor-in-Chief of Ms., a prominent American feminist magazine, and co-owned Ms. and Sassy magazines. She was head of the federal Office for the Status of Women during the Hawke government and was an advisor on women’s [...]
Issue 3 | 20 July 2009 Dr Paul Twomey is President and Chief Executive Officer of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ([ICANN]) and currently Senior President of ICAN. Before joining ICANN, Paul was the founder of ArgoP@acific, a prominent international consultancy and investment firm. He was also the founding CEO of the National [...]
Issue 3 | 14 July 2009 As a regular columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald, Annabel Crabb has become well-known for her incisive and engaging political commentary. In 2005, she published Losing It: The Inside Story of the Labor Party in Opposition, about the demise of Labor’s Mark Latham as federal Opposition Leader. Her journalistic [...]
Issue 3 | 7 July 2009 Frank Brennan SJ’s commitment to human rights advocacy spans 30 years. He is Chair of the National Human Rights Consultation and Professor of Law at the Australian Catholic University. Frank Brennan spent 18 months in East Timor, where he was the Director of the Jesuit Refugee Service. He is [...]
