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. [...]
Following the release of the wording of the 2023 referendum question to be put to Australian electors being announced by the Prime Minister, The Sydney Institute held an important discussion on the legal realities around the constitutional change advocated by a Voice to parliament and executive government. For Minister Linda Burney the change proposed would [...]
Following the release of the wording of the 2023 referendum question to be put to Australian electors being announced by the Prime Minister, The Sydney Institute held an important discussion on the legal realities around the constitutional change advocated by a Voice to parliament and executive government. For Minister Linda Burney the change proposed would [...]
Australia’s involvement in East Timor from 1999–2000 was this nation’s largest mission conducted under United Nations auspices, the single largest deployment of Australian Defence Force personnel since the Second World War and an instrumental part of Timor-Leste gaining its independence. The International Force East Timor (INTERFET) was the first time Australia had led such a [...]
The quality of journalism had been challenged in recent decades by the advance of social media and the internet. Increasingly, the need to make media pay has decreased serious content, reducing so-called news reporting often to over-sensationalised and panic-inducing reports to aggravate addictive followings. How to manage, if not push back against ,this mechanised take-over [...]
The Hon Chris Bowen MP, theMinister for Climate Change and Energy, is the minister in charge of overseeing the Albanese Government’s pledge to cut Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions by 43 per cent below 2005 levels by the end of the decade, while boosting renewable electricity production to 82 per cent of our electricity supply. To [...]
The year 2023 marked a referendum milestone in the history of the Australian constitution with debate in full flight over the Albanese Government’s decision to insert an Indigenous Voice to parliament and executive government. Frank Brennan SJ has been a leading Australian contributor over decades to the discussions and development of Indigenous Australia’s gradual reform [...]
Australians are rightly proud of our world class superannuation system. But no government can afford to be complacent about finding improvements. After the Albanese Government announced change to Australia’s superannuation arrangements, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services The Hon Stephen Jones MP addressed The Sydney Institute on Tuesday 21 February 2023 to explain both [...]
Walter Russell Mead is the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College and previously taught American foreign policy at Yale University. He was also the editor-at-large of The American Interest. In 2014, he joined the Hudson Institute as a Distinguished Scholar in American Strategy and Statesmanship. He served as the [...]
“History, as a discipline taught in Australian universities, is no longer about a study of the past, it has turned into a woke political project to erase our memory”. So writes Dr Bella D’Abrera, Director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Project at the Institute of Public Affairs. To reflect on the implications of this [...]
