Professor Ross Fitzgerald is a writer and broadcaster. He is the author of many books – both fiction and non-fiction, his most recent, a memoir, My Name is Ross: An Alcoholic’s Journey (Newsouthbooks 2010). Ross Fitzgerald is also a columnist for The Australian. On Tuesday 2 February 2010, Ross Fitzgerald addressed The Sydney Institute in [...]
Gerard Henderson, Executive Director of The Sydney Institute and columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald, launched Professor Ross Fitzgerald’s My Name Is Ross: An Alcoholic’s Journey at The Sydney Institute on Tuesday 2 February 2010. Gerard Henderson spoke of knowing Ross Fitzgerald for over two decades, a friend whose company at regular lunches is without [...]
Susan Butler has worked on the Macquarie Australian Dictionary since it began in 1970, and was involved in the production of the first edition in 1981. She also oversees The Dinkum Dictionary, which records the etymology and meanings of colloquial Australian words and expressions. Having recently completed work on the fifth edition of the Macquarie [...]
Don Watson is one of Australia’s most distinguished writers and public speakers. In 1992 he became Paul Keating’s speech-writer and adviser and his best-selling account of those years, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: Paul Keating Prime Minister, won the Age Book of the Year and Non-Fiction Prizes, the Brisbane Courier Mail Book of the Year, [...]
Ms Embesat Khan was born in Lahore, the capital of the Punjab province in Pakistan and was elected Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab in General Elections 2002, a year when the election of women to the Assembly reached its highest figure in history (74 members). Of the 371 seats in the assembly, [...]
Associate Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley primary research focus is in the history of Australian media. She is the Director of the Centre for Media History at Macquarie University, the Convenor of the ARC Cultural Research Network’s Media Histories node and the Australian Media History Database. She is presently working on the production of A Companion to [...]
Dr Ziggy Switkowski, a Ph.D. in nuclear physics and Chairman of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), believes that nuclear power should be the at the centre of Australia’s long term energy strategy. Prior to this current appointment, Dr Switkowski served as a senior executive in a number of Australian and international organisations, [...]
Kirsten McKenzie has a BA (Hons), an MA from the University of Cape Town and completed her D Phil at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1997. She began teaching Australian history at the University of Sydney in 2002. Her research interests include comparative British colonial identity in the Cape Colony and New South Wales, scandal and [...]
Andrew Tink was educated at the Australian National University. He practised as a barrister, before his election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the Liberal Party in 1988. In 2003, he was appointed Shadow Attorney General. He retired from Parliament in 2007 and has since written a biography of one of Australia’s greatest [...]
Blind since birth, the Rt Hon David Blunkett was elected to the House of Commons as Member for Sheffield Brightside in 1987. A former Cabinet minister in governments led by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, he was central to the economic and social policies of New Labour. More recently, he has undertaken work on anti-poverty [...]
