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 [...]
The issue of the referendum on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament consumed discussion across Australia for ten months and more leading to the referendum on Saturday 14 October 2023 at which the Yes case was lost overwhelmingly - going down 39 per cent to 61 per cent No. There was a week of mourning for [...]
The issue of the referendum on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament consumed discussion across Australia for ten months and more leading to the referendum on Saturday 14 October 2023 at which the Yes case was lost overwhelmingly - going down 39 per cent to 61 per cent No. There was a week of mourning for [...]
Born in a displaced persons’ camp two years after the end of the Holocaust, Michael Gawenda spent his childhood and teenage years in a left-wing non-Zionist Jewish youth group in Melbourne. He went on to become a public figure during his 40 years as a journalist, including his role as editor-in-chief of The Age - the [...]
In 2023, housing affordability surfaced as the issue of the moment - baby boomers knew nothing like it. The question seemed to have become whether Australians were locked in an unbreakable cycle with no workable answers. Linda Scott, a Labor councillor on the Sydney City Council, oversees an area with the some of the highest [...]
In 2023, housing affordability surfaced as the issue of the moment - baby boomers knew nothing like it. The question seemed to have become whether Australians were locked in an unbreakable cycle with no workable answers. Linda Scott, a Labor councillor on the Sydney City Council, oversees an area with the some of the highest [...]
The Hon Ed Husic is the Minister for Industry and Science. As such he has a strong belief that renewed manufacturing in technological and advanced industries holds the key not only to a revival of the Australian economy but a strengthening of living standards in the growing western suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne, the sort [...]
The Sydney Institute Annual Dinner address in 2023 was given by the premier of New South Wales, The Hon Chris Minns who was sworn in as premier on 28 March 2023. In his address, the premier chose to take up key issues confronting his new government and outlined aspects of the most challenging of all, [...]
Elliott Abrams is senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Washington, DC. He served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor in the administration of President George W. Bush, where he supervised U.S. policy in the Middle East for the White House, and as [...]
Historian Ross McMullin is the author of numerous books and is best known for his work on Australia’s famous fighting general Pompey Elliott. In more recent times, Ross McMullin has researched and brought to life again many who risked their lives in Australia's war in 1914-18. Their stories tell of the times and the courage [...]
