The COVID pandemic focussed Australians' attention on the limits of their federation constitution. Border closures and state regulations have begged the question, "Did the Founding Fathers get it right?" Associate Professor at the Australian National University and author of Their Fiery Cross of Union - A Retelling of the Creation of the Australian Federation 1889-1914 William Coleman [...]
The COVID pandemic focussed Australians' attention on the limits of their federation constitution. Border closures and state regulations have begged the question, "Did the Founding Fathers get it right?" Associate Professor at the Australian National University and author of Their Fiery Cross of Union - A Retelling of the Creation of the Australian Federation 1889-1914 William Coleman [...]
How to make sense of the astonishing upheaval of February 2020 and following? Normal life – in which expected rights and freedoms were taken for granted – came to be replaced by a new society as managed by a medical/ruling elite that promised but failed to deliver virus mitigation, all in the name of public [...]
Sadanand Dhume is an author, commentator and columnist with The Wall Street Journal. Among his published works is the best selling My Friend the Fanatic; Travels with a Radical Islamist. With the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, Sadanand Dhume wrote in The Wall Street Journal on 16 September 2021, "The return of Taliban rule in Afghanistan [...]
Thomas Friedman is an American political commentator and author. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who is a weekly columnist for The New York Times. He has written extensively on foreign affairs, global trade, the Middle East, globalisation and environmental issues. His best selling From Beirut to Jerusalem in 1989 was the winner of the National [...]
To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Senator Neville Bonner’s taking his seat in the Australian senate, The Sydney Institute conducted a Zoom meeting on Wednesday 22 September 2021. The meeting hosted speakers Michelle Grattan AO, a professional fellow at the University of Canberra and chief political correspondent at The Conversation. Grattan was a member of [...]
To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Senator Neville Bonner’s taking his seat in the Australian senate, The Sydney Institute conducted a Zoom meeting on Wednesday 22 September 2021. The meeting hosted speakers Michelle Grattan AO, a professional fellow at the University of Canberra and chief political correspondent at The Conversation. Grattan was a member of [...]
In 2021, Federation Press released its Australian Jurists and Christianity, edited by Justice Geoffrey Lindsay and Professor Wayne Hudson – the Australian edition of an international series on Christianity and the law entitled Great Christian Jurists in [National] History. To launch the volume, under lockdown in pandemic times, The Sydney Institute conducted a Zoom meeting [...]
In 2021, Federation Press released its Australian Jurists and Christianity, edited by Justice Geoffrey Lindsay and Professor Wayne Hudson – the Australian edition of an international series on Christianity and the law entitled Great Christian Jurists in [National] History. To launch the volume, under lockdown inpandemic times, The Sydney Institute conducted a Zoom meeting led [...]
In 2021, Federation Press released its Australian Jurists and Christianity, edited by Justice Geoffrey Lindsay and Professor Wayne Hudson – the Australian edition of an international series on Christianity and the law entitled Great Christian Jurists in [National] History. To launch the volume, under lockdown in pandemic times, The Sydney Institute conducted a Zoom meeting [...]
