Reporting from war zones and places of trouble across the world consumes our multi media stage. Until recently, however, women were at the back of the queue in the ranks of those who sent back news of global disasters. Not anymore. Today women reporters go anywhere and they have changed the nature of reporting and [...]
Reporting from war zones and places of trouble across the world consumes our multi media stage. Until recently, however, women were at the back of the queue in the ranks of those who sent back news of global disasters. Not anymore. Today women reporters go anywhere and they have changed the nature of reporting and [...]
Gladys Berejiklian was Australia's rockstar premier. The first woman elected to lead NSW, she steered the state through devastating bushfires, drought and a once-in-a-generation pandemic with a steady hand and successfully navigated the waves of COVID with a sterling reputation as a dedicated and reliable public servant. But, Berejiklian was harbouring a secret, revealed during [...]
As the 25th prime minister of Australia, The Hon John Howard MP managed to outlast all his predecessors, becoming the second longest serving Australian prime minister and bettered only by Sr Robert Menzies. In retirement, John Howard has written two best selling books - a personal memoir and a political evaluation of Robert Menzies. In [...]
Economist and Labor MP Daniel Mulino for Fraser is also the author of Safety Net – The Future of Welfare in Australia. In his book, Daniel Mulino explains how the Australian welfare state was created - and what we need to do to protect and extend it. The welfare state is one of the crowning [...]
Being a director of a listed company is fast becoming more complex and less attractive… and yet the role has never been more important. Nearly 30 years after his seminal exploration of boards and governance in Strictly Boardroom, published as part of a Sydney Institute initiative, Professor Fred Hilmer AO has revisited the state of leadership [...]
Former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia Murray Gleeson in Recognition in keeping with the Constitution: a worthwhile project opined, “That Indigenous people have a special, and unique, status in the history and the life of the nation is beyond question. That the Constitution is an appropriate place in which to recognise that status is a [...]
Former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia Murray Gleeson in Recognition in keeping with the Constitution: a worthwhile project opined, “That Indigenous people have a special, and unique, status in the history and the life of the nation is beyond question. That the Constitution is an appropriate place in which to recognise that status is a [...]
Former Liberal Party leader and prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, in his campaign against Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the Liberal Party is one of the greatest acts of political disloyalty in Australian history. Through the pursuit of causes close to his heart, Turnbull destabilised a government he was once part of and courted forces openly [...]
Constitutional change does not come easily in Australia by way of referendum. To change the constitution, Australians must vote a majority, for any proposal, in a majority of states. Since Federation, there have been 44 proposals put to a referendum and only 8 have been approved. So where does this leave the referendum on "The [...]
