With the world headlines focussed on the war in Ukraine, media attention in early 2022 drifted away from close attention to happenings in Iran – in spite of US President Joe Biden’s moves to reinstate the Obama nuclear agreement nuclear with Iran. On a visit to Australia, sponsored by the Australia and Israel Jewish Affairs [...]
With the votes still being counted in many seats following the 2022 federal election, The Sydney Institute held a briefing on what might be expected on Wednesday 25 May 2022. Ticky Fullerton - Editor-at-Large at The Australian Business Review - joined Gerard Henderson, executive director of The Sydney Institute to pose some scenarios. At the time [...]
In 2022, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky became the unlikely hero of the second decade of the twenty-first century. He led and inspired his country—and the entire free world—in the fight against the Russian invasion that began in February 2022, in which Russian President Vladimir Putin became regarded as a war criminal. The war in Ukraine [...]
As the Albanese government settled in following Labor’s win at the 21 May 2022 federal election, The Sydney Institute held a series of talks on what the new government might reflect and what the election had meant for Australia generally. On Tuesday 7 June 2022, two of Australia’s best political commentators – Troy Bramston, Senior [...]
As the Albanese government settled in following Labor’s win at the 21 May 2022 federal election, The Sydney Institute held a series of talks on what the new government might reflect and what the election had meant for Australia generally. On Tuesday 7 June 2022, two of Australia’s best political commentators – Troy Bramston, Senior [...]
Margaret Cunneen SC is the boxing butterfly who turned the tables on the ICAC, amidst prosecuting murderers, pedophiles and rapists, going on to launch a new life chapter as a defence barrister. There were the irreverent Skafs for gang rape, Robert “Dolly” Dunn for pedophilia, the Butcher of Bega for unspeakable medical malpractice and the [...]
With the Liberal/National Coalition losing government after nine years at the 2022 federal election, The Sydney Institute asked two of Sydney’s best known Liberal voices to offer their take on what went wrong. On Tuesday 21 June, Senator Hollie Hughes and former Member for Wentworth Dave Sharma offered their views on what happened at the [...]
With the Liberal/National Coalition losing government after nine years at the 2022 federal election, The Sydney Institute asked two of Sydney’s best known Liberal voices to offer their take on what went wrong. On Tuesday 21 June, Senator Hollie Hughes and former Member for Wentworth Dave Sharma offered their views on what happened at the [...]
An anti-missile defence integrated system to confront the threats posed by the Iranians wagered between Israel and Arab nations such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE is what Ehud Yaari calls a “big time” development. But increasingly it is a reality. Meanwhile the Palestinian issue no longer dominates thinking mong the big Arab players. And [...]
Dame Leonie Kramer held the Chair of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney from 1968 to 1989 and was dubbed "Killer Kramer" by Nobel laureate and nemesis Patrick White. Dame Leonie was the first woman to be a professor at Sydney University and the first to serve as its chancellor and as the ABC’s [...]
