For most Australians in 2024, the cost-of-living crisis is their major current concern. While inflation has tipped down slightly, continued high interest rates and high prices for power, groceries and other necessities are hurting lower and middle income people. The electorate of Fowler – traditionally a Labor stronghold - feels this more than most other parts [...]
Senator Dave Sharma was Australia's ambassador to Israel from 2013-2017. He previously served as head of the International Division of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. His appointment to the post in Israel, at the age of 37, made him one of Australia's youngest ambassadors and the second Australian ambassador of Indian heritage. In [...]
Alexander Lapshin is an Israeli based, Soviet Union born journalist and travel blogger specialising in international relations, military conflicts, human rights and travelling. He is also a former political prisoner of one of the world's most autocratic regimes, Azerbaijan, after a trip to the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh in 2011 landed the 40-year-old Lapshin in [...]
As Australians came out of their holiday season for 2024, it was increasingly clear that the cost of living had become a nagging sore for the federal government of Anthony Albanese. With a backflip over the Coalition’s promised tax cuts due in mid-2024, there seemed to be a pause in the negativity flowing to the [...]
As Australians came out of their holiday season for 2024, it was increasingly clear that the cost of living had become a nagging sore for the federal government of Anthony Albanese. With a backflip over the Coalition’s promised tax cuts due in mid-2024, there seemed to be a pause in the negativity flowing to the [...]
Cardinal George Pell died in Rome on 10 January 2023. After years of fighting the false charges laid by Victoria Police, and subsequently found guilty by a Victorian court, George Pell had those charges overturned by a unanimous verdict of the High Court of Australia. Frank Brennan SJ AO, in an address to The Sydney Institute [...]
Cardinal George Pell died in Rome on 10 January 2023. After years of fighting the charges laid by Victoria Police, and subsequently found guilty by a Victorian court, George Pell had those charges overturned by a unanimous verdict of the High Court of Australia. Frank Brennan SJ AO, in an address to The Sydney Institute on [...]
Danielle Pletka is a distinguished senior fellow in foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where she focuses on US foreign policy generally and the Middle East specifically. Until January 2020, Ms. Pletka was the senior vice president of foreign and defense policy studies at AEI. Concurrently, she also teaches US [...]
Moorhouse was also one of Australia's foremost public intellectuals; his contribution to Australian cultural, social and political life was prolific, erudite and astoundingly broad. Throughout his career he moved between the roles of activist, author, advocate and scholar. Professor Catharine Lumby knew Frank Moorhouse well and was left his papers from which she produced Frank Moorhouse [...]
Brian Harradine was an Independent Senator for Tasmania from 1975-2004, and a former Labor stalwart and trade union official. Expelled from the ALP before entering parliament, he showed just what an independent can achieve. Harradine made governments stop, think and consult before they could legislate and act. Now his life has been recorded by Keith Harvey [...]
