Sharri Markson is the Investigations Writer at The Australian and host of Sharri on Sky News Australia. In 2020, Sharri Markson began reporting on little known investigations being made into the origins of the global pandemic COVID-19. Commonly believed to have begun in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the general view was that the virus [...]
Senator Andrew Bragg, Senator for New South Wales, has just released his publication Buraadja – The Liberal Case for National Reconciliation with the P M Glynn Institute. He argues that the history and philosophy underpinning the Liberal Party of Australia provides a workable answer in this constitutional debate for the Morrison Government. On Tuesday 8 June, Senator [...]
Suzanne D. Rutland (OAM PhD) is Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney. She is a renowned Australian Jewish historian and has published widely on Australian Jewish history, edits the Sydney edition of the AJHS Journal and has written on issues relating to the Shoah, Israel, Soviet Jewry and Jewish education. Her book, The Jews in Australia was [...]
On Wednesday 19 May 2021, The Hon Angus Taylor, Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, addressed The Sydney Institute. In this important speech, given on the day of the announcement of the gas fired project at Kurri Kurri in New South Wales – a major Hunter Valley project – the minister outlined significant decisions being [...]
Robert Hadler is the author of Dark Secrets - The True Story of Murder in HMAS Australia and, most recently, Mutineers - A True Story of Heroes and Villains which records the history of how five young Australian sailors seeking adventure in a far off war fell foul of British Imperial authority and sparked one of the most controversial events [...]
With the impact of Cancel Culture, not a week goes by without public controversy and debate. Examples include destroying statues, re-writing history, promoting gender fluidity in schools, opposing the establishment of the Ramsay Centre for the study of Western civilisation, attacking free speech and seeking to intimidate and silence those who don’t subscribe to Woke [...]
Meredith Burgmann – former president of the NSW Upper House – and writer Nadia Wheatley, who have put together Radicals – Remembering The Sixties, spoke for The Sydney Institute about the book and how it happened on Wednesday 28 April 2021. The book is a look back in time from a unique perspective. The voices [...]
The recorded stories of Australia’s convict women have taken time to defuse from those of a collection of lowly and wanton figures in the annuls of Australian history to something more positive about their lives. Historian Babette Smith is one who has done much to refocus attention on the contribution of Australia’s female convicts to [...]
