The Hon Julia Gillard is Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, and Minister for Social Inclusion. Julia Gillard was elected to Federal Parliament in 1998. Before entering Parliament she worked as chief of staff of the then Victorian Opposition leader, John Brumby. As the first female Deputy Prime [...]
Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy was appointed Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy in December 2007. He is also Deputy Leader of the government in the Senate. On Monday 12 April, Stephen Conroy addressed The Sydney Institute to give an update on the issues and progress among his portfolio responsibilities, including the National [...]
The Hon Craig Emerson is the Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy and Minister Assisting the Finance Minister on Deregulation in the Rudd Government. In 2009, he was appointed Minister for Competition and Consumer Affairs. Dr Emerson was a senior policy adviser Prime Minister Bob Hawke and played a role in [...]
Senator The Hon Chris is the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship in the Rudd Government and Leader of the government in the Senate. Tackling the Immigration portfolio at a time of record global people movements and people smuggling is an onerous task. Australia’s Pacific Solution in the Howard Government years created controversy and has given [...]
Professor Simon Schama, award winning author, historian and documentary maker, delivered The Sydney Institute’s Annual Dinner Lecture for 2010. Speaking to a capacity crowd of over 870 guests at the Star City Harbourside Ballroom, Professor Schama offered his reflections on leadership and President Barack Obama, as well as making some colourful detours through the lives [...]
Lucy Howard-Taylor’s memoir of her battle with anorexia nervosa was published in 2008, when she was just nineteen. Biting Anorexia describes Lucy’s despair at the darkest points of her illness, and her escape from its grips to recovery, health and happiness. Lucy went on to study law and English literature at Sydney University, and recently [...]
Why should Australia sell uranium to India? This has become a controversial issue Down Under. Dr Lavina Lee is a lecturer in politics and international relations at Macquarie University, Sydney. She has a combined law and commerce degree from the University of NSW, a Master of Arts with distinction from King’s College, University of London, [...]
Following the Australian Labor Party’s win in 2007, Martin Ferguson AO was appointed to Cabinet as Minister for Resources and Energy and Minister for Tourism. Prior to entering Parliament, Martin Ferguson was President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (1990-96) and vice-president (1985-90), having joined the ACTU after fifteen years service with the then [...]
According to Ric Battellino, there are lessons and experience to be drawn on from a two centuries of Australian mining booms. Ric Battellino Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Deputy Chairman of the Reserve Bank Board and chairman of the Reserve Bank’s Risk Management Committee. He has been at the Reserve Bank for [...]
Growing old is an aspect of human experience only thinly covered in literature. Frank Devine was a columnist and long-time newspaper man for News Limited. When Frank reached 70, he decided to write all about it – about being home alone when his wife was hospitalised, on being a grandparent, long-term marriage and so on. [...]
