Sydney based writer, director, producer and visual artist, Claire McCarthy has written, directed and produced a number of documentaries, short films and music videos in Australia, India, Germany and Mexico.Following a special presentation and honours at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2009, The Waiting City came to Sydney in 2010. On the eve of [...]
The Hon Nicola Roxon MP retained her position as the Minister for Health and Ageing in the new Julia Gillard ministry. In a speech to The Sydney Institute on Monday 28 June 2010, Ms Roxon outlined comprehensively the major health reforms envisaged under the Rudd-Gillard administration. As Nicola Roxon put it: “The Gillard Government has [...]
The debate over the Rudd Government’s proposed Resources Super Profits Tax (RSPT) engulfed both government and media during June 2010. A leading critic of the tax was Australian journalist Jennifer Hewett, National Affairs Correspondent for The Australian since April 2007. George Megalogenis, political commentator, author and senior feature writer for The Australian, was more concerned [...]
The debate over the Rudd Government’s proposed Resources Super Profits Tax (RSPT) engulfed both government and media during June 2010. A leading critic of the tax was Australian journalist Jennifer Hewett, National Affairs Correspondent for The Australian since April 2007. George Megalogenis, political commentator, author and senior feature writer for The Australian, was more concerned [...]
Judith Keene is Associate Professor in History at the University of Sydney, where her work focuses on the twentieth century European cultural and political history and Inter-war Europe and European cinema. Among Professor Keene’s numerous publications areFighting For Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain During the Spanish Civil War (Continuum, 2001) and her most recent [...]
Stephen Holt is a Canberra-based historian and speech writer, and the author of biographies on historian Manning Clark and trade union leader Lloyd Ross. His latest book, co-authored with Ross Fitzgerald, Alan “the Red Fox” Reid, explores the career of influential political journalist Alan Reid, and his role in chronicling and participating in behind-the-scenes machinations of [...]
The Hon Andrew Robb, Member for Goldstein, was appointed Shadow Minister for Finance and Debt in March 2010. A former Federal Director of the Liberal Party and minister in the Howard Government, Andrew Robb is one of the most experienced in the Liberals leadership team. With the election of Tony Abbott as Leader of the [...]
Melbourne born Desmond O’Grady has lived in Italy for decades where he worked as the Rome correspondent for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. His many books include Dinny Going Down and his most recent A Word in Edgeways which records his experiences over decades among some of the great literati – close encounters [...]
Dr James Curran, a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney, specialises in twentieth century Australian political culture. Dr Stuart Ward held the Keith Cameron Chair of Australian History at University College Dublin (2008-9) and teaches Australian studies and Imperial history at the University of Copenhagen. Stuart Ward and James Curran are the co-authors of [...]
Dr James Curran, a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney, specialises in twentieth century Australian political culture. Dr Stuart Ward held the Keith Cameron Chair of Australian History at University College Dublin (2008-9) and teaches Australian studies and Imperial history at the University of Copenhagen. Stuart Ward and James Curran are the co-authors of [...]
