On 15 June 1215, English King John, in the meadow of Runnymede beside the Thames between Windsor and Staines, sealed the document now known as the Magna Carta. It is a document some 3,550 words long written in Latin. Some of its chapters seem of minor importance but there are also chapters which are still [...]
On 15 June 1215, English King John, in the meadow of Runnymede beside the Thames between Windsor and Staines, sealed the document now known as the Magna Carta. It is a document some 3,550 words long written in Latin. Some of its chapters seem of minor importance but there are also chapters which are still [...]
INTRODUCTION TO THE HON JULIE BISHOP MP MIKE BAIRD I would like to acknowledge, first and foremost, Sydney Institute chairman Nick Johnson. Congratulations on your work. And, of course, Gerard and Anne Henderson: congratulations on what you have created. The Sydney Institute is something very special. It is a central part of Sydney, [...]
At the 1967 referendum, Australians voted overwhelmingly to amend the constitution to include Aboriginal people in the census and allow the Commonwealth to create laws for them. Today, nearly 50 years on, there’s a groundswell of support for Indigenous heritage to be recognised in the Constitution. As Indigenous groups and government work towards a model [...]
The Hon Bruce Billson is the Minister for Small Business and was also a minister in the Howard Government in 2007. As reported in the Herald Sun business section after the 2015 Budget, Billson has first hand experience of running a small business As the Herald Sun reported: “Tapping into his own experience and consulting [...]
For 50 years, until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the Soviet Union ran a campaign of repression, imprisonment, political trials and terror against its three million Jews. In Australia, political leaders and the Jewish community contributed significantly to the international protest movement which eventually triumphed over Moscow’s tyranny and led to the modern Exodus [...]
The guest speaker for The Sydney institute’s Annual Dinner 2015, held on Monday 27 April, was The Hon Julie Bishop MP, Australia’s Foreign Minister. The Hon Julie Bishop is also the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party and has served as the Member for Curtin in the House of Representatives since 1998. Julie Bishop was [...]
The Hon Anna Bligh - Queensland Premier September 2007-March 2012 - was the first woman to be elected a premier of an Australian state. Having spent over 17 years in the rough and tumble of the Queensland parliament - seven of them as either Deputy Premier or Premier – Anna Bligh knows something about hard [...]
On 15 June 1215, English King John, in the meadow of Runnymede beside the Thames between Windsor and Staines, sealed the document now known as the Magna Carta. It is a document some 3,550 words long written in Latin. Some of its chapters seem of minor importance but there are also chapters which are still [...]
At the 1967 referendum, Australians voted overwhelmingly to amend the constitution to include Aboriginal people in the census and allow the Commonwealth to create laws for them. Today, nearly 50 years on, there’s a groundswell of support for Indigenous heritage to be recognised in the Constitution. As Indigenous groups and government work towards a model [...]
