Fifty-two years after being sent out to buy a sandwich for his first boss, one Rupert Murdoch, when Les finally left Murdoch’s employment in 2011, the business of news had been turned upside down, in a tumble of social and technological change. Les Hinton in a former senior executive with News Corp, a journalist and [...]
The Hon Anthony Albanese is Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Cities & Regional Development. Anthony Albanese, who grew up in public housing in the inner Sydney suburb of Camperdown, was also Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government in the Rudd Government after 2007. His commitment to the growth and planning of cities [...]
The internet has shaken the foundations of life: public and private lives are wrought by the 24-hour, seven-day-a-week news cycle that means no one is ever off duty. Katharine Murphy is Guardian Australia's political editor. She has worked in Canberra's parliamentary gallery for 15 years. In 2008, she won the Paul Lyneham award for excellence [...]
Assistant Home Affairs Minister Alex Hawke says as many as 4000 Australians are victims of modern slavery, found in mines, factories, brothels, construction sites and farms around the world. Under the minister’s watch, draft new laws to stamp out modern slavery in Australian supply chains were introduced to parliament, on Thursday 28 June 2018, as [...]
2001 marked the halfway point of 20 years of continuous economic growth in Australia. In Sydney, the median house price was $322,500, a loaf of bread cost $2.30 and a dozen eggs $2.90. Best of all, a kilo of rump steak cost just $12.50. It wasn’t just the tragedy and attacks of 9/11 that marked [...]
Dr Catherine Bishop is an Honorary Associate of the History faculty at the University of Sydney and also the Author of Minding Her Own Business – Colonial Businesswomen in Sydney which won the Ashurst Business Literature Prize in March 2017. There are few memorials to colonial businesswomen, but Catherine Bishop’s research and conclusions in her work [...]
Dr Jonathan Spyer is a Jerusalem-based journalist and author and an analyst with the Jerusalem Institute of Strategic Studies. Spyer has been covering the rumble and crumble of Iraq and Syria into vast territories of stateless chaos for the past six years. Those two conflicts have been responsible for the deaths of a great number [...]
Dr Milton Osborne is a former Australian diplomat and author, most recently, of Pol Pot Solved the Leprosy Problem. Milton Osborne’s early experience in Australia’s Phnom Penh embassy shaped the rest of his life, which remains centred on Southeast Asia. From 1959-61, he worked there as a young diplomat. Later as an academic, he continued [...]
The Hon Angus Taylor is the Minister for Law Enforcement & Cyber Security and the Member for Hume. He grew up on a up on a sheep and cattle property near Nimmitabel, NSW and graduated from Sydney in Law and Economics (for which he won the university medal). He won a Rhodes Scholarship to study for [...]
