The Hon Wayne Swan is Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer. Elected to federal parliament in 1993, Wayne Swan has been both Campaign Director and State Secretary for the Queensland branch of the Australian Labor Party and, in Opposition, held the positions of Shadow Minister for Family and Community Services and Manager of Opposition Business in [...]
Elizabeth Broderick is the Sex Discrimination Commissioner and Commissioner responsible for Age Discrimination in the Australian Human Rights Commission. Prior to her appointment, Elizabeth Broderick was a partner at Blake Dawson and the 2001-02 Telstra NSW Business Woman of the Year and Australia Corporate Business Woman of the Year. On Thursday 5 August 2010, Elizabeth [...]
David Gonski, Chancellor of the University of New South Wales and chairman of ASX Ltd, Coca Cola Amatil Ltd and Investec Bank Ltd, is well known to Australians for his senior role in business. He is also recognised as a champion for affirmative action around the placement of women on company boards. On Thursday 5 [...]
David Marr is an Australian journalist, author, and political and social commentator. His areas of expertise include the law, Australian politics, censorship, the media and the arts. He writes for The Sydney Morning Herald and appears as a semi-regular panelist on the ABC television programs, Q & A and Insiders. Marr’s In Power Trip: The [...]
Nicholas Stuart is the author of three books about Australian politics, most recently Rudd’s Way: November 2007 – June 2010. Stuart is currently a columnist with The Canberra Times and has had a long and eclectic career as a journalist. He reported for the Radio Current Affairs programs AM and PM, as well as for [...]
Paul Cleary is a senior writer with The Australian and a researcher in Indigenous development at the Australian National University. In a career spanning 20 years he has reported on politics and economics for a decade in the Canberra Press Gallery, and worked as a correspondent in Southeast Asia and as a political adviser. Awarded [...]
Paul Kelly is an insightful, prominent and prolific political commentator. He is editor-at-large of The Australian and has authored seven books on the modern Australian political landscape – the most recent being The March of the Patriots (2009). Paul Kelly has earned a number of accolades for journalistic excellence, including a double Walkley Award (2001) [...]
Claire Harvey is a columnist with The Daily Telegraph. Her coverage of the 2010 federal election campaign marked her out as one of Australia’s most talented and up and coming young political reporters – with an eye for the ridiculous and a seasoned antennae for the mood of voters. In a discussion at The Sydney [...]
Peter Hartcher is the Political and International Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, the Chair Editor of The Diplomat and a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute. A prominent journalist, he has written widely on Australian politics and foreign affairs and authored a number of books, the most recent being To The Bitter End: The [...]
Professor Fred Hilmer is President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of New South Wales. From 1998–2005, Fred Hilmer was the Chief Executive Officer of John Fairfax Holdings Limited and from 1989-1998 he was Dean and Director of the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) at the University of New South Wales. Fred Hilmer’s writings on [...]
