Baroness Caroline Cox, an Anglican laywoman and former deputy speaker of Great Britain’s House of Lords, is a champion of human rights for the weak and defenceless. Due to her vigorous personality, she has also been described as a “British Joan of Arc” for our times, incarnating the noblest spirit of chivalry for her staunch [...]
Rodney Cavalier was Minister for Education in the NSW Wran and Unsworth Labour governments. After leaving politics, Cavalier has served on numerous committees and government bodies, as chairman of the Australian Language and Literary Council, on the Council of the National Library of Australia and as Chairman of the Committee for the Sesquicentenary of Responsible [...]
Barrie Cassidy is a veteran political journalist. In a career spanning over 40 years, Cassidy has worked in print, radio and television, served as Bob Hawke’s press secretary and as The Australian’s Washington correspondent. He presents channel Ten’s Meet The Press and a number of ABC shows including The 7:30 Report and Insiders, which Cassidy [...]
Robert Milliken addressed The Sydney Institute on Tuesday 26 October 2010. Milliken is a Sydney based journalist and the author of Mother of Rock: the Lillian Roxon Story (Black Inc, 2002; revised edition 2010). The story of Lillian Roxon may have been lost to Australians but for Milliken’s work. The author of Lillian Roxon’s Rock [...]
Barry O’Farrell is the leader of the NSW Liberal Party and State Opposition leader. Elected to State Parliament in 1995, he has held numerous shadow portfolios including Leader of the House, Treasurer, Waterways, Transport and Health. On Wednesday 27 October 2010, Barry O’Farrell addressed The Sydney Institute to outline the Opposition’s five point action plan [...]
The Hon John Howard AC was one of Australia’s most successful prime ministers, leading the Liberal Party to victory over four elections and becoming the second-longest-serving Prime Minister in the nation’s history. His memoir, Lazarus Rising, released in 2010, records Howard’s three decades in politics and the changes he saw both inside and outside government [...]
In a world where life can so often involve many contradictory emotions and experiences, historian Maggie Mackellar left her academic post to recover from two deaths. Taking her two small children, she marooned herself in her grandparents’ empty house on a farm in the Australian countryside. Over time, she found not only a natural healing [...]
