Valerie Lawson is one of Australia’s leading journalists, and the author of the critically acclaimed The Allens Affair. Her Mary Poppins, She Wrote – The Life of P L Travers, the life story of the author of the classic Mary Poppins books, was first released in 1999, published in 2005 in the UK and USA, [...]
Kate Jennings, Australian poet and writer, made her home in New York four decades ago, from where she has charted her age from a liberal and feminist perspective. Her novel Moral Hazard dramatised the perils of Wall Street years before the global crash of 2008; her recently released Trouble offers her best writing over four [...]
As Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children’s Services in the Labor government, The Hon Bill Shorten Prior addressed The Sydney Institute on Tuesday 13 July, Prior to his election to parliament, in 2007, Bill Shorten was the National Secretary of the Australian Workers’ Union. In his time responsible for disabled services in Australia, Bill Shorten [...]
Ehud Ya’ari has been a Middle East commentator for Israeli television since 1975. Among his numerous awards for journalism are the Israeli Press Editors-in-Chief prize for coverage of the peace process with Egypt, the Sokolov Prize for coverage of the Lebanon War, and the Israel Broadcasting Award for coverage of the Gulf War. On a [...]
From 1978 to 2000 Paul Davey held several senior positions with the National Party of Australia, including nearly ten years as Federal Director and more than three years as NSW General Secretary. He has also worked extensively as a news and current affairs reporter in Australia and overseas, including for Associated Press of America in [...]
Senator Fiona Nash was elected to the Senate for the National Party at the 2004 federal election – taking her seat in the Senate in July 2005. An active party organiser before entering politics, Fiona Nash is currenly Deputy Leader of the Nationals and her Senate committee work has covered a wide range of matters [...]
David Uren has 35 years of experience in economic journalism, working from the Canberra Press Gallery since 2004. As Economics Correspondent The Australian he covered the global financial crisis of 2008 very closely. From this he produced the book Shitstorm, with Lenore Taylor. On Tuesday 20 July 2010, David Uren addressed The Sydney Institute evaluating [...]
Lenore Taylor is an award winning political journalist who has covered federal politics for twenty-two years. She is national affairs correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and a regular commentator on radio and television, including the ABC’s Insiders program. In her co-authored book Shitstorm – Inside Labor’s Darkest Days (MUP) – with David Uren – [...]
The Hon Tony Abbott is the Leader of the Opposition and federal leader of the Liberal Party of Australia. Elected to federal parliament in 1994, Tony Abbott has served as Minister for Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business, Minister for Health and Ageing and Shadow Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. On Tuesday, [...]
Shelley Gare is a well-respected editor and author and has been editor of The Good Weekend and Sunday Life, consultant editor of WHO magazine, deputy editor of The Australian and writes regularly for The Weekend Australian. She has also authored a number of books her most recent being The Triumph of the Airheads (2006). As [...]
