Scott Morrison MP is the federal Member for Cook and Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. Elected to Federal parliament in 2007, Scott Morrison has served as Shadow Minister for Housing and Local Government and on numerous parliamentary and Coalition policy committees. Before entering parliament, Scott Morrison was State Director of the Liberal Party of [...]
The Hon Tim Fischer was Australia’s deputy Prime Minister in the Howard Government from 1996-99. He retired from politics in 2001 and is currently Australia’s Ambassador to the Holy See. In Rome, Tim Fischer has been closely associated with the final stages of the canonisation of Australia’s first saint, Mary MacKillop. On the 2 September [...]
Blanche d’Alpuget is the author of seven books including novels, political biographies and essays. She has won of a number of literary prizes including the PEN Golden Jublilee Award, The Age Novel of the Year Award, the South Australian Premier’s Award and the Australasian Prize for Commonwealth Literature. Blanche D’Alpuget has served on the boards [...]
William Shawcross is a widely renowned British writer and broadcaster. His articles have appeared in the Sunday Times, the Sunday Telegraph, the Washington Post and the Sydney Morning Herald. His books include Dubcek (1970), Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia (1979), The Shah’s Last Ride (1989) and Deliver Us From Evil: Warlords and [...]
Glenn Milne is a Canberra journalist and political commentator. He has worked as chief political correspondent and as political editor of The Australian. and is a former columnist for The Australian newspaper. Since July 2010, Milne has been writing for the ABC’s Unleashed site. On 16 September 2010, Glenn Milne addressed The Sydney Institute to [...]
Margot Saville is a freelance reporter and contributor to Crikey. After two years as a junior solicitor at Allen Allen & Hemsley, Margot Saville turned to journalism, working at ABC Television, the Nine Network and the Sydney Morning Herald. She is also the author of The Battle for Bennelong: the adventures of Maxine McKew, aged [...]
Simon Benson is the chief national political reporter at the Daily Telegraph, and one-time President of the NSW Press Gallery. In 2001, Simon Benson won the Eureka prize for Environmental Journalism and was highly commended in the Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Journalism in 2005. Simon Benson is the author of Betrayal: The Underbelly of [...]
Mary Kissel is an editorial board member of The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board and from 2005 to 2010 was editor of The Wall Street Journal Asia’s editorial page. Kissel joined the Journal in Hong Kong in 2004 as writer of the Money & Investing section’s Heard in Asia column. Mary Kissel has worked for [...]
Bettina Arndt is a leading commentator on issues of sexuality. Trained as a clinical psychologist, Bettina Arndt entered public debate in the 1970s as the editor of Forum, a controversial adult sex education magazine. Since then, Arndt has worked as a writer for The Australian, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, hosted her own [...]
Paul Howes has been branded one of Labor’s faceless men, the union boss accused of helping to remove Kevin Rudd and installing Julia Gillard. Howes’ diary of the 2010 election campaign is now in print as the book Confessions of a Faceless Man. This is an insider’s account of modern campaigning ALP-style. Strategy meets stuff [...]
