As debate continued over the ABC’s fall in ratings, Managing Director David Anderson announced the ABC would be moving from broadcast radio to streamed or on-demand audio and that the organisation needed a “digital first” structure. Gerard Henderson, Executive Director of The Sydney Institute and a columnist for The Australian where his Media Watch Dog [...]
Joseph Cook was the Australian prime minister who announced Australia had joined what became World War I. The Royal Australian Navy was transferred to the British Admiralty and a contingent of 20,000 volunteer troops were committed for overseas combat. Cook's Liberals endorsed Labor's war policy as well as its recruitment drives. But this is not by [...]
In the wake of the Coalition loss at the federal election in 2021 and with Liberal state governments across mainland Australia, the Liberal Party faces a reassessment, both organisationally and in terms of policy. To hear something of fresh thinking in Liberal ranks, The Sydney Institute invited three younger and Liberal Party activists to give [...]
In the wake of the Coalition loss at the federal election in 2021 and with Liberal state governments across mainland Australia, the Liberal Party faces a reassessment, both organisationally and in terms of policy. To hear something of fresh thinking in Liberal ranks, The Sydney Institute invited three younger and Liberal Party activists to give [...]
In the wake of the Coalition loss at the federal election in 2021 and with Liberal state governments across mainland Australia, the Liberal Party faces a reassessment, both organisationally and in terms of policy. To hear something of fresh thinking in Liberal ranks, The Sydney Institute invited three younger and Liberal Party activists to give [...]
As National Secretary of the Australian Workers Union, Daniel Walton has a special interest in the role of mining in the Australian economy. And with the ongoing investment in new energy sources and reliable power, he sees the availability of critical minerals from Australia as a new frontier in the expansion of investment, trade and [...]
As Prime Minister from 1972-1975, Gough Whitlam established diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China, reached a settlement with the United States on vital defence facilities, revitalised the ANZUS alliance in the context of a more robustly independent Australia, along with much more. To coincide with the release of his monograph Whitlam’s Foreign Policy, [...]
New Labor government Treasurer Jim Chalmers set off a debate in early 2023 with his essay in The Monthly, "Capitalism after The Crisis". Faced with growing debt and an inflationary global economy, Chalmers seems to be proposing greater regulation of the market and more involvement of private investment in public projects. Is this just another way of bringing [...]
New Labor government Treasurer Jim Chalmers set off a debate in early 2023 with his essay in The Monthly, "Capitalism after The Crisis". Faced with growing debt and an inflationary global economy, Chalmers seems to be proposing greater regulation of the market and more involvement of private investment in public projects. Is this just another way of bringing [...]
In the aftermath of the defeat of the New South Wales Coalition government in March 2023, the NSW Liberal and National parties had much to think about. Labor had made a comeback federally in 2022 and the lead up to the NSW election saw the Coalition with multiple challenges so often faced by long-term administrations. [...]
