| Date | Function Date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22nd Jan 2019 | 2019/01/22 | Delivering on our Economic Plan for all Australians | Speaker(s): The Hon Josh Frydenberg MP (Treasurer & Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party) Date: 22 Jan 2019 Topic: Delivering on our Economic Plan for all Australians Venue: The Sydney … |
| 11 Mar 2019 | 2019/03/11 | Escaping the Rat Race – The Story of Cradle Mountain | Speaker(s): Kate Legge (Journalist and author – most recently of Kindred) Date: 11 Mar 2019 Topic: Escaping the Rat Race – The Story of Cradle Mountain Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level … |
| 6th Feb 2019 | 2019/02/06 | Australia and China – Different View | Speaker(s): The Hon Bob Carr (Former NSW premier & author) and Dr Alan Dupont (Founder & CEO of Cognoscenti) in conversation with DR Gerard Henderson (Executive Director, The Sydney Institute) Date: … |
| 20th Feb 2019 | 2019/02/20 | Topic TBA | Speaker(s): Dr Clare Wright (Historian and author, most recently, of You Daughters of Freedom) Date: 20th Feb 2019 Topic: Tba Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 … |
| 17th Dec 2018 | 2018/12/17 | Topic TBA | Speaker(s): Senator The Hon Mathias Cormann (Leader of the Government in the Senate; Minister for Finance and the Public Service)alia) Date: 17th Dec 2018 Topic: Tba Venue: The Sydney Institute, … |
| 6th Dec 2018 | 2018/12/06 | James Packer and His World | Speaker(s): Damon Kitney (Author of The Price of Fortune, The Untold Story of James Packer) Date: 6th Dec 2018 Topic: James Packer and His World Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level … |
| 27th Nov 2018 | 2018/11/27 | Australia’s Part in Man’s First Walk on The Moon | Speaker(s): Andrew Tink (Historian and author, most recently, of Honeysuckle Creek – The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish and Neil Armstrong’s First Step) Date: 27th Nov 2018 Topic: … |
| 20th Nov 2018 | 2018/11/20 | John Russell: And the Importance of the Australian Arts Documentary | Speaker(s): Catherine Hunter (Arts writer, producer and director; Director of the ABC TV documentary Australia’s Lost Impressionist – John Russell) Date: 20th Nov 2018 Topic: John Russell: And the Importance … |
| 10th Dec 2018 | 2018/12/10 | Topic TBA | Speaker(s): Grant King (President, Business Council of Australia) Date: 10th Dec 2018 Topic: Tba Venue: Tba Time: 5.30 for 6pm Book from: 23 November 2018 |
| 3rd Dec 2018 | 2018/12/03 | Why I Am No Longer A Feminist | Speaker(s): BETTINA ARNDT (Commentator & author, most recently of forthcoming book #MenToo) Date: 3rd Dec 2018 Topic: Why I Am No Longer A Feminist Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor … |
| 24th Oct 2018 | 2018/10/24 | Snowy 2.0: Nation Building in Action | Speaker(s): The Hon John Barilaro MP (NSW Deputy Premier, Minister for Regional New South Wales, Minister for Skills, and Minister for Small Business; Leader of The Nationals) Date: 24nd Oct 2018 … |
| 22nd Oct 2018 | 2018/10/22 | Communism: What the Young Should Know | Speaker(s): JAMES BARTHOLOMEW (UK author and writer; Leader writer, The Daily Telegraph) Date: 22nd Oct 2018 Topic: Communism: What the Young Should Know Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor … |
| 10th Oct 2018 | 2018/10/10 | Rusted Off: Navigating the gulf between parliament and rural Australia | Speaker(s): Gabrielle Chan (Author, Rusted Off – Why Country Australia is fed up) Date: 10th Oct 2018 Topic: TBA Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer … |
| 29th Oct 2018 | 2018/10/29 | The Art of Counter Terrorism | Speaker(s): PROFESSOR BOAZ GANOR (Dean & Ronald Lauder Chair for Counter-Terrorism, Lauder School of Government; Founder and Executive Director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, Herzliya, Israel) Date: 29th October … |
| 14th Nov 2018 | 2018/11/14 | Ending the Culture Wars | Speaker(s): Professor Greg Craven (Vice Chancellor & President, Australian Catholic University [ACU]) Date: 14th Nov 2018 Topic: Ending the Culture Wars Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, … |
| 17th Sep 2018 | 2018/09/17 | Australian Federal Politics on the Eve of The Wentworth By-Election | Speaker(s): Sharri Markson (National Political editor, The Daily Telegraph) & Aaron Patrick (Senior writer, The Australian Financial Review) Date: 17th Sept 2018 Topic: Australian Federal Politics on the Eve of … |
| 16th Oct 2018 | 2018/10/15 | Fighting Back to Preserve our Freedom | Speaker(s): The Hon Dominic Perrottet MP (NSW Treasurer; Minister for Industrial Relations) Date: 16th Oct 2018 Topic: TBA Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, … |
| 29th Aug 2018 | 2018/08/29 | Absolute Power – God, Belief and The Pope | Speaker(s): Paul Collins (Historian and author of Absolute Power – How The Pope became the Most Influential Man in The World) & Professor Margaret Somerville (Notre Dame University, Sydney) Date: 29th … |
| 8th Oct 2018 | 2018/10/08 | The Internet: Not an Ungoverned Space | Speaker(s): Senator The Hon Mitch Fifield (Minister for the Arts & Minister for Communications) Date: 8th Oct 2018 Topic: The Internet: Not an Ungoverned Space Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, … |
| 11th Sep 2018 | 2018/09/11 | Can We Trust Opinion Polls? US in 2016; Australia in 2018 | Speaker(s): Martin O’Shannessy (Partner, OmniPoll) Date: 11th Sept 2018 Topic: Can We Trust Opinion Polls? US in 2016; Australia in 2018 Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 … |
| 8th Aug 2018 | 2018/08/08 | Cambodia: After the Election | Speaker(s): Monovithya Kem (member of the Permanent Committee of Cambodia’s principal opposition party, the Cambodia National Rescue Party [CNRP]) Date: 8th Aug 2018 Topic: TBA Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level … |
| 24th Sep 2018 | 2018/09/24 | Enid Lyons: Her Life and Times | Speaker(s): ANNE HENDERSON AM (Author of Enid Lyons – Leading Lady to the Nation [Connor Court – new edition 2018] & JOHN NETHERCOTE (Adjunct Professor, Australian Catholic University) Date: 24th … |
| 3rd Sep 2018 | 2018/09/03 | Australia, the Soviet Union & the Cold War – and Russia Today | Speaker(s): Professor Paul Dibb AM (Strategist; Academic – Strategic & Defence Studies, ANU; former defence intelligence official; author, Inside the Wilderness of Mirrors: Australia and the Threat from the Soviet … |
| 15th Aug 2018 | 2018/08/15 | The Sydney Opera House: Its History & Its People | Speaker(s): Helen Pitt (SMH Journalist & Author The House: The dramatic story of the Sydney Opera House and the people who made it [Allen & Unwin, 2018]) Date: 2018-08-15 Topic: … |
| 23rd Jul 2018 | 2018/07/23 | Run for Your Life: A Political Memoir | Speaker(s): The Hon. Bob Carr (former Premier of NSW & federal Foreign Minister; author Run for Your Life [MUP, 2018]) Date: 23rd Jul 2018 Topic: Run for Your Life: A … |
| 6th Aug 2018 | 2018/08/06 | The Queen’s Role in the Appointing and Dismissing the Governor General | Speaker(s): Anne Twomey (Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Sydney) Date: 6th Aug 2018 Topic: The Queen’s Role in the Appointing and Dismissing the Governor General Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level … |
| 7th Nov 2018 | 2018/11/07 | Villers-Bretonneux – What Really Happened | Speaker(s): Ross McMullin (Award winning biographer and historian) Date: 7th Nov 2018 Topic: Villers-Bretonneux – What Really Happened Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney … |
| 9th Jul 2018 | 2018/07/09 | On Disruption: A Report from the Australian Coalface | Speaker(s): Katharine Murphy (Author On Disruption (MUP, 2018); Political Editor, The Guardian Australia) Date: 9th July 2018 Topic: On Disruption: A Report from the Australian Coalface Venue: The Sydney Institute, … |
| 11th Jul 2018 | 2018/07/11 | Partnering with our Cities | Speaker(s): The Hon. Anthony Albanese MP (Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Cities & Regional Development; Shadow Minister for Tourism) Date: 11th Jul 2018 Topic: Partnering with our Cities Venue: The … |
| 18th Jul 2018 | 2018/07/18 | My Life in Journalism: from Adelaide to London and New York | Speaker(s): Les Hinton (Journalist and author The Bootle Boy: An Untidy Life in News [Scribe, 2018]; formerly a senior executive, News Corp) Date: 18th July 2018 Topic: My Life in Journalism: from … |
| 14th Jun 2018 | 2018/06/14 | The Case for English: Why a Shared Language is Key to Social Cohesion and Economic Success | Speaker(s): The Hon Alan Tudge MP (Minister for Citizenship; Minister for Multicultural Affairs) Date: 14th June 2018 Topic: The Case for English: Why a Shared Language is Key to Social … |
| 31st Jul 2018 | 2018/07/31 | The Liberal Party’s Women MPs – Where are They? | Speaker(s): Katherine O’Regan (Executive Director, Cities Leadership Institute), Peter Van Onselen (Academic, UWA and Griffith, & Contributing Editor, The Australian) & Sophie York (Lecturer, Public International Law & Legal Philosophy, University … |
| 25th Jun 2018 | 2018/06/25 | Transforming Australia into an Outward-Looking Economy: Why the 1940s Matter | Speaker(s): Professor David Vines (Research Fellow, Centre for Economic & Policy Research, [London] & Emeritus Professor of Economics, Balliol College, University of Oxford) Date: 2018-06-25 Topic: Transforming Australia’s Economy: Why … |
| 31st May 2018 | 2018/05/31 | Myanmar and the Rohingya Crisis | Speaker(s): Christopher Lamb (former Australian Ambassador to Myanmar [Burma]; President of the Australia Myanmar Institute ([AMI]; Associate Professor, School of Social & Political Sciences, University of Melbourne) Date: 2018-05-31 Topic: … |
| 19th Jun 2018 | 2018/06/19 | Syria 2.0: The Current Situation in Syria and How it Affects The Region | Speaker(s): Dr Jonathan Spyer (Journalist and author; Analyst, Jerusalem Institute of Strategic Studies) Date: 2018-06-19 Topic: Syria 2.0: The Current Situation in Syria and How it Affects The Region Venue: The … |
| 26th Jun 2018 | 2018/06/26 | The Year That Changed Everything | Speaker(s): Phillipa McGuinness (Author of The Year That Changed Everything – 2001) Date: 2018-06-26 Topic: The Year That Changed Everything Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer … |
| 4th Apr 2018 | 2018/04/04 | A Cardinal and Servant – Norman Thomas Gilroy | Speaker(s): Dr John Luttrell FMS (Author, Norman Thomas Gilroy – An Obedient Life) & Rev Ed Campion (Historian & author) Date: 2018-04-04 Topic: A Cardinal and Servant – Norman Thomas Gilroy Venue: … |
| 4th Jul 2018 | 2018/07/04 | An Australian Government Act to combat modern slavery? | Speaker(s): The Hon Alex Hawke MP (Assistant Minister for Home Affairs) Date: 2018-07-04 Topic: An Australian Government Act to combat modern slavery? Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip … |
| 20th Jun 2018 | 2018/06/20 | A Silent Force – Colonial Businesswomen in Sydney | Speaker(s): Dr Catherine Bishop (Author of Minding Her Own Business – Colonial Businesswomen in Sydney) Date: 2018-06-20 Topic: A Silent Force – Colonial Businesswomen in Sydney Venue: The Sydney Institute, … |
| 11th Apr 2018 | 2018/04/11 | Reflections on Edmund Burke | Speaker(s): Dr Jesse Norman MP (UK Minister for Roads & author of Edmund Burke: The Visionary Who Invented Modern Politics) Date: 2018-04-11 Topic: Reflections on Edmund Burke Venue: The Sydney … |
| 22nd May 2018 | 2018/05/22 | Budget 2018: The Aftermath | Speaker(s): Jennifer Hewett (National Affairs Columnist on Business & Politics, Australian Financial Review) & Adam Creighton (Economics Correspondent, The Australian) Date: 2018-05-22 Topic: Budget 2018: The Aftermath Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level … |
| 6th Jun 2018 | 2018/06/06 | Solutions for Society: Facing New Threat | Speaker(s): The Hon Angus Taylor (Minister for Law Enforcement & Cybersecurity) Date: 2018-06-06 Topic: Solutions for Society: Facing New Threat Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer … |
| 24th Apr 2018 | 2018/04/24 | Jewish Settlement in Australia | Speaker(s): Emeritus Professor Suzanne Rutland (University of Sydney) & Dr Damien Freeman (Visiting Scholar, P M Glynn Institute & author, The Aunt’s Mirrors) Date: 2018-04-24 Topic: Jewish Settlement in Australia … |
| 16th May 2018 | 2018/05/16 | Home Affairs: Our Achievements and a View to the Future | Speaker(s): The Hon Peter Dutton (Minister for Home Affairs) Date: 2018-05-16 Topic: Home Affairs: Our Achievements and a View to the Future Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip … |
| 13th Jun 2018 | 2018/06/13 | An Australian Diplomat Remembers | Speaker(s): Dr Milton Osborne (Former Australian diplomat & author) Date: 2018-06-13 Topic: An Australian Diplomat Remembers Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 … |
| 15th May 2018 | 2018/05/15 | Catholic Schools – the Education Option Australia Can’t do Without | Speaker(s): Dallas McInerney (CEO, Catholic Schools NSW) Date: 2018-05-15 Topic: Catholic Schools – the Education Option Australia Can’t do Without Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 … |
| 21st Mar 2018 | 2018/03/21 | Turnbull, Joyce, Shorten and all that – What’s Happening? | Speaker(s): Caroline Overington (Associate Editor, The Australian) & Aaron Patrick (Senior writer, The Australian Financial Review) Date: 2018-03-21 Topic: Turnbull, Joyce, Shorten and all that – What’s Happening? Venue: The Sydney Institute, … |
| 10th Apr 2018 | 2018/04/10 | Australia’s Women Writers in a Man’s World | Speaker(s): Dr Ann-Marie Priest (Author, A Free Flame – Australian Women Writers and Vocation) Date: 2018-04-10 Topic: Australia’s Women Writers in a Man’s World Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor … |
| 19th Mar 2018 | 2018/03/19 | The Growing Influence of Modern China | Speaker(s): Chris Chappell (Host of New York’s China Uncensored) Date: 2018-03-19 Topic: The Growing Influence of Modern China Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, … |
| 7th Mar 2018 | 2018/03/07 | Rorting or Supporting? The Value of Private Health Insurance | Speaker(s): Senator Richard Di Natale (Leader of the Australian Greens) Date: 2018-03-07 Topic: Rorting or Supporting? The Value of Private Health Insurance Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, … |
| 1st Mar 2018 | 2018/03/01 | Europe or Eurabia: Islam and the Continent’s Future | Speaker(s): Daniel Pipes (President of the Middle East Forum; Columnist Washington Times) Date: 2018-03-01 Topic: Europe or Eurabia: Islam and the Continent’s Future Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip … |
| 28th Feb 2018 | 2018/02/28 | Australia’s John Sulman – A Prodigy of His Generation | Speaker(s): Dr Zeny Edwards (author of A Life of Purpose – a Biography of John Sulman) Date: 2018-02-28 Topic: Australia’s John Sulman – A Prodigy of His Generation Venue: The … |
| 12th Feb 2018 | 2018/02/12 | The Trump Administration and the Middle East | Speaker(s): Dr Jonathan Schanzer (Senior Vice-president, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Middle-East & counter terror finance expert) Date: 2018-02-12 Topic: The Trump Administration and the Middle East Venue: The Sydney … |
| 26th Apr 2018 | 2018/04/26 | The AIF Heroes of Tobruk, El Alamein, New Guinea and Borneo | Speaker(s): Mark Johnston (Author of An Australian Band of Brothers) Date: 2018-04-26 Topic: The AIF Heroes of Tobruk, El Alamein, New Guinea and Borneo Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, … |
| 13 Mar 2018 | 2018/03/13 | The Trump Administration and the US Economy | Speaker(s): Len Harlan (Chairman, Castle Harlan Executive Committee) Date: 2018-03-13 Topic: The Trump Administration and the US Economy Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, … |
| 21st Feb 2018 | 2018/02/21 | Wednesdays on My Mind – Seeing The World with Bob Hawke | Speaker(s): Derek Reilly (Sydney Journalist & author of Wednesdays with Bob) with Blanche d’Alpuget (Writer) Date: 2018-02-21 Topic: Wednesdays on My Mind – Seeing The World with Bob Hawke Venue: … |
| 19th Feb 2018 | 2018/02/19 | Managing The Financial Risks of Climate Change | Speaker(s): The Hon Mark Butler MP (Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy & Federal President, ALP) Date: 2018-02-19 Topic: Managing The Financial Risks of Climate Change Venue: The Sydney … |
| 6th Feb 2018 | 2018/02/06 | Caroline Chisholm – A Game-Changer in Early Australia | Speaker(s): SARAH GOLDMAN (Author, Caroline Chisholm – An Irresistible Force) Date: 2018-02-06 Topic: Caroline Chisholm – A Game-Changer in Early Australia Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, … |
| 31st Jan 2018 | 2018/01/31 | Old Wine In New Bottles – Strengthening Liberal Values | Speaker(s): THE HON KELLY O’DWYER MP (Minister for Revenue & Financial Services) Date: 2018-01-31 Topic: Old Wine In New Bottles – Strengthening Liberal Values Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, … |
| 23rd Jan 2018 | 2018/01/23 | Warren Mundine- Race, Politics and Changing Australia | Speaker(s): WARREN MUNDINE AO (Former ALP president, Abbott Government adviser & author Warren Mundine in Black and White) Date: 2018-01-23 Topic: Warren Mundine- Race, Politics and Changing Australia Venue: The … |
| 15th Nov 2017 | 2017/11/15 | Beersheba 1917-2017: The Commemoration of the Australian Light Horse | Speaker(s): Sam Lipski (CEO, The Pratt Foundation; Author of most recent Let My People Go) Date: 2017-11-15 Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney. … |
| 8th Nov 2017 | 2017/11/08 | Peter Hall and The Sydney Opera House | Speaker(s): Dr Anne Watson (Architecture & design curator & author, The Poisoned Chalice)& The Hon Michael Baume AO Date: 2017-11-08 Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer … |
| 7th Dec 2017 | 2017/12/07 | After The Fall of the Caliphate: How Terrorism Will Continue to Present A Challenge | Speaker(s): DR SAJJAN GOEL (International Security Director, Asia Pacific Foundation, London) Date: 2017-12-7 Topic: TBA Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5:30 … |
| 26th Oct 2017 | 2017/10/26 | The Protestant Reformation- 500 Years On | Speaker(s): FR FRANK BRENNAN AO (CEO, Catholic Social Services Australia; BISHOP PETER J. ELLIOTT DD (Auxiliary Bishop, Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne); REV PROF SCOTT COWDELL (Theologian & writer). Date: 2017-10-26 Topic: The Protestant Reformation- … |
| 9th Nov 2017 | 2017/11/09 | Collaboration and Compassion: Hallmarks of a Modern Liberal Government | Speaker(s): THE HON GLADYS BEREJIKLIAN (Premier of New South Wales) Date: 2017-11-09 Venue: Collaboration and Compassion: Hallmarks of a Modern Liberal Government Time: 5.30 for 6pm Book from: 26th October … |
| 24th Oct 2017 | 2017/10/24 | Pompey Elliott, in His Own Words – Gallipoli and The Western Front | Speaker(s): ROSS McMULLIN (Author, Pompey Elliott at war: in his own words) Date: 2017-10-24 Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney. Time: 5.30 for … |
| 30th Oct 2017 | 2017/10/30 | Centennial of the Battle of Beersheba – Australia-Israeli Relations | Speaker(s): PROF EFRAIM INBAR (Director, Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies) Date: 2017-10-30 Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney. Time: 5.30 for 6pm Book … |
| 23rd Oct 2017 | 2017/10/23 | Constitutional Recognition after the Uluru Statement from the Heart | Speaker(s): Danny Gilbert AM- Founder, Cape York Partnership Group; Co-founder & Managing Partner, Gilbert + Tobin, followed by a discussion with Prof Megan Davis & Noel Pearson – chaired by Geraldine … |
| 28th Sep 2017 | 2017/09/28 | Defence Issues for Australia | Speaker(s): Senator the Hon Marise Payne Date: 2017-09-28 Topic: Defence Issues for Australia Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for … |
| 4th Oct 2017 | 2017/10/04 | The Conservative Tradition from Menzies to Abbott | Speaker(s): The Hon Tony Abbott- Member for Warringah & Damien Freeman- Author of Abbott’s Right Date: 2017-10-04 Topic: The Conservative Tradition from Menzies to Abbott Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, … |
| 20th Sep 2017 | 2017/09/09 | Sydney’s Golden Years of Crime – 1966 to 1972 | Speaker(s): Michael Duffy & Nick Hordern- co-authors, Sydney Noir: The Golden Years Date: 2017-09-20 Topic: Sydney’s Golden Years of Crime – 1966 to 1972 Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor … |
| 30th Aug 2017 | 2017/08/30 | Identity, Tolerance and The Politics of Place | Speaker(s): Louise Clegg (Barrister & constitutional law specialist) & Rev Peter Kurti (Research fellow, CIS & author The Tyranny of Tolerance) Date: 2017-08-30 Topic: Identity, Tolerance and The Politics of Place Venue: … |
| 5th Sep 2017 | 2017/09/05 | Remembering Alfred Deakin | Speaker(s): Professor Judith Brett (Author of The Enigmatic Mr Deakin) Date: 2017-09-05 Topic: Remembering Alfred Deakin Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 … |
| 12th Sep 2017 | 2017/09/09 | China, Orphans and the One Child Policy | Speaker(s): Jane Hutcheon – ABC presenter and author of China Baby Love Date: 2017-09-12 Topic: China’s Baby Trade Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney … |
| 12th Dec 2017 | 2017/12/14 | The Rainbow in Asia | Speaker(s): THE HON MICHAEL KIRBY AC (International jurist, educator and former judge) Date: 2017-12-12 Topic: The Rainbow in Asia Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer … |
| 29th Nov 2017 | 2017/11/29 | Climate Change 2017 | Speaker(s): DR JENNIFER MAROHASY (Australian biologist, columnist and blogger) & PROF PETER RIDD (Geophysicist at College of Science & Engineering, James Cooks University) Date: 2017-11-29 Topic: Climate Change – The … |
| 31st Oct 2017 | 2017/10/31 | Security in the Pacific | Speaker(s): SENATOR THE HON CONCETTA FIERRAVANTI-WELLS (Minister for International Development & the Pacific) Date: 2017-10-31 Venue: TBA Time: 5.30 for 6pm Book from: 17 October 2017 |
| 14th Aug 2017 | 2017/08/14 | Israel in a Changing Middle East | Speaker(s): ERAN LERMAN (Former Deputy for Foreign Policy and International Affairs at Israel’s National Security) Date: 2017-08-14 Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney … |
| 8th Aug 2017 | 2017/08/08 | Australia’s Workplace Relations Framework: the Case for Reform | Speaker(s): MARTIN FERGUSON AM (Former Labor Minister) & JENNIFER HEWETT (National Affairs Columnist – The Australian Financial Review) Date: 2017-08-08 Topic: Australia’s Workplace Relations Framework: the Case for Reform Venue: … |
| 2nd Aug 2017 | 2017/08/02 | Topic: TBA | Speaker(s): THE HON. BRENDAN O’CONNOR MP (Shadow Minister for Employment & Workplace Relations) Date: 2017-08-02 Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5:30 … |
| 21st Jun 2017 | 2017/06/21 | The Dangers Of North Korea: Don’t Forget The Denial Of Human Rights | Speaker(s): The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG Date: 2017-06-21 Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm Book from: 7 June … |
| 31st Jul 2017 | 2017/07/31 | “Red” Ted Theodore and Joseph Lyons – Money, Men and Depression | Speaker(s): THE HON KEVIN ANDREWS (Member for Menzies & author of Joseph Lyons and the management of adversity) & DAVID MOORE (author of The Curse of Mungana) Date: 2017-07-31 Venue: The … |
| 18th Jul 2017 | 2017/07/18 | Jane Austen & D’Arcy Wentworth – Facts and Fiction | Speaker(s): WAL WALKER (Author, Jane & D’Arcy: Jane Austen & D’Arcy Wentworth, Vol 1: Folly is Not Always Folly) Date: 2017-07-18 Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, … |
| 13th Jun 2017 | 2017/06/13 | Martin Sharp – Taking On The Establishment | Speaker(s): JOYCE MORGAN (Former Arts editor, Sydney Morning Herald & author of Martin Sharp: His Life and Times) Date: 2017-06-13 Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 … |
| 25th Jul 2017 | 2017/07/25 | Lessons in Terror – the Lindt Café Seige and Brighton Attack | Speaker(s): JANET FIFE-YEOMANS (Chief Reporter, The Daily Telegraph) Date: 2017-07-25 Topic: Lessons in Terror – the Lindt Café Seige and Brighton Attack Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip … |
| 8th Jun 2017 | 2017/06/08 | Low Wage Growth Risks Australia’s Future Prosperity | Speaker(s): Tanya Plibersek Date: 2017-06-08 Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney. Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm Book from: 24 May 2017 Notes: This function … |
| 7th Jun 2017 | 2017/07/07 | Why Marriage is Too Risky for Men | Speaker(s): KAREN STRAUGHAN (Renowned men’s rights blogger [GirlWritesWhat]) Date: 2017-06-07 Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm Book from: 23 … |
| 6th Jun 2017 | 2017/06/06 | Sydney’s Anglicans | Speaker(s): Andrew Sempell & Bruce Ballantine-Jones Date: 2017-06-06 Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm |
| 22nd Nov 2017 | 2017/11/22 | Technological Change: Dealing With Disruption | |
| 23rd Aug 2017 | 2017/08/23 | Policies for Opportunity vs. Politics of Envy | Speaker(s): SENATOR THE HON. MATHIAS CORMANN (Minister for Finance; Deputy Leader of the Govt in the Senate) Date: 2017-08-23 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61 Governor Phillip Tower, 1 … |
| 7th Aug 2017 | 2017/08/07 | World Religions – Who’s Up, Who’s Down? | Speaker(s): DR CONRAD HACKETT (Senior Demographer & Associate Director, Pew Research Centre) & DR RUTH POWELL (Director, National Church Life Survey Research; Associate Professor, ACU) Date: 2017-08-07 Venue: The Sydney … |
| 26th Jul 2017 | 2017/07/26 | Australia: A Small Business of Success | Speaker(s): THE HON. MICHAEL MCCORMACK MP (Minister for Small Business) Date: 2017-07-26 Venue: Australia: A Small Business of Success Time: 5.30 for 6pm Book from: 09 July 2017 |
| 28th Jun 2017 | 2017/06/28 | Electronic Cigarettes: A Threat Or An Opportunity? | Speaker(s): DR COLIN MENDELSOHN (Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW; Tobacco Treatment Specialist) Date: 2017-06-28 Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer … |
| 22nd May 2017 | 2017/05/22 | Federal Budget 2017 – Two Views | Speaker(s): MARK DI STEFANO (Political Editor at BuzzFeed) and SHARRI MARKSON (National Political Editor for The Daily Telegraph) Date: 2017-05-22 Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 … |
| 16th May 2017 | 2017/05/16 | Ways forward for Women in the Workplace | SPEAKER: TRACEY SPICER (Broadcaster and author of The Good Girl Stripped Bare) DATE: Tuesday 16 May 2017 **Book from 2 May 2017** TIME: 5:30 for 6:00pm TOPIC: Ways forward for Women in the … |
| 3rd May 2017 | 2017/05/03 | Pauline Hanson: One Nation & the Politics of Race | Speaker(s): David Marr Date: 2017-05-03 Venue: Allens, Level 28 Deutsche Bank Building, 126 Phillip Street (entrance from Hunter Street), Sydney. Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm |
| 24th Apr 2017 | 2017/04/24 | Why 19th Century in Victoria was different from NSW & Tasmania | Speaker(s): Patrick Morgan Date: 2017-04-24 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street (between Bent and Bridge Street), Sydney Time: 5:30 for 6:00pm |
| 11th Apr 2017 | 2017/04/11 | Writing After – How My Mother’s Death Changed My Life | Speaker(s): NIKKI GEMMELL (Internationally acclaimed author, most recently of After, & columnist, The Australian) Date: 2017-04-11 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8-12 Chifley Square (entrance via Hunter Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for … |
| 6th Apr 2017 | 2017/04/06 | The Sydney Institute’s Annual Dinner 2017 | Speaker(s): Annual Dinner|Malcolm Turnbull Date: 2017-04-06 Venue: Time: |
| 5th Apr 2017 | 2017/04/05 | Fighting for the Forgotten People – 75 Years On | Speaker(s): Michaelia Cash Date: 2017-04-05 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8-12 Chifley Square (entrance via Hunter Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm |
| 3rd Apr 2017 | 2017/04/03 | Can Wealth Concentration Be Stopped? | Speaker(s): Muhammad Yunus Date: 2017-04-03 Venue: Allens, Level 28, Deutsche Bank Place, 126 Phillip Street (entrance from Hunter Street), Time: 5.30 for 6pm |
| 30th Mar 2017 | 2017/03/30 | Disruption Goes Mainstream – Report from America | Speaker(s): Joe Hockey Date: 2017-03-30 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8-12 Chifley Square (entrance via Hunter Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm |
| 20th Mar 2017 | 2017/03/20 | Donald Trump and the Trump Phenomenon – An Update | Speaker(s): Leonard Harlan Date: 2017-03-20 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8-12 Chifley Square (entrance via Hunter Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm |
| 15th Mar 2017 | 2017/03/15 | A Personal Journey Into the World of the Brain | Speaker(s): Barbara Arrowsmith Young Date: 2017-03-15 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8-12 Chifley Square (entrance via Hunter Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm |
| 9th Mar 2017 | 2017/03/09 | Is Good Government Enough? | Speaker(s): Andrew Constance Date: 2017-03-09 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm |
| 1st Mar 2017 | 2017/03/01 | Australian War Reporters – John Hinde, Chester Wilmot and More Besides | Speaker(s): Neil McDonald|Tony Hill Date: 2017-03-01 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street (between Bent & Bridge Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6 pm |
| 22nd Feb 2017 | 2017/02/22 | The State of The Nation – Breakdown or Happiness? | Speaker(s): Rebecca Huntley|Tanveer Ahmed Date: 2017-02-22 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8-12 Chifley Square (entrance via Hunter Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm |
| 20th Feb 2017 | 2017/02/20 | Ensuring Energy Security and Affordability as we Transition to a Lower Emissions Future | Speaker(s): Josh Frydenberg Date: 2017-02-20 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney. Time: 5.30 for 6 pm |
| 15th Feb 2017 | 2017/02/15 | Labor Icons: Paul Keating and Lionel Murphy | Speaker(s): Stephen Walmsley|Troy Bramston Date: 2017-02-15 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8-12 Chifley Square (entrance via Hunter Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6 pm |
| 13th Feb 2017 | 2017/02/13 | Identity Politics and the New Age of Multicultural Nations | Speaker(s): Jatinder Mann Date: 2017-02-13 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street (between Bent & Bridge Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm |
| 8th Feb 2017 | 2017/02/08 | The Australian Dream: Blood, History and Becoming | Speaker(s): Stan Grant Date: 2017-02-08 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8-12 Chifley Square (entrance via Hunter Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6 pm |
| 31st Jan 2017 | 2017/01/31 | The Red Pill – The Movie About Men’s Lives that Gender Warriors Don’t Want You to See | Speaker(s): Bettina Arndt Date: 2017-01-31 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8-12 Chifley Square (entrance via Hunter Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6 pm |
| 5th Dec 2016 | Australia’s Secret Cold War | Speaker(s): John Blaxland Date: 2016-12-05 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 28th Nov 2016 | Sir James Plimsoll – Man for All Seasons | Speaker(s): Jeremy Hearder Date: 2016-11-28 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 22nd Nov 2016 | Same Sex Marriage – For and Against | Speaker(s): David Van Gend | Julie McCrossin Date: 2016-11-22 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 16th Nov 2016 | Thea Astley – Iconic Australian Writer and Reluctant Feminist | Speaker(s): Karen Lamb Date: 2016-11-16 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 14th Nov 2016 | Putting a Price on Australia’s Resources | Speaker(s): Matt Canavan Date: 2016-11-14 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 9th Nov 2016 | Sir Paul Hasluck – and The Menzies Era | Speaker(s): Nicholas Hasluck Date: 2016-11-09 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 2nd Nov 2016 | Victoria’s Secrets | Speaker(s): Julia Baird Date: 2016-11-02 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8-12 Chifley Square (entrance via Hunter Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 26th Oct 2016 | The NBN And Media Regulation – Reshaping The Future | Speaker(s): Mitch Fifield Date: 2016-10-26 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney. Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 24th Oct 2016 | A New Approach to Welfare Reform: Reducing dependency and setting higher expectations | Speaker(s): Alan Tudge Date: 2016-10-24 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8-12 Chifley Square (enter via Hunter Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 18th Oct 2016 | Robert Menzies and the Visual Arts | Speaker(s): Judith Pugh Date: 2016-10-18 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street (between Bent & Bridge Streets), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 10th Oct 2016 | Making Headlines | Speaker(s): Chris Mitchell Date: 2016-10-10 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 5th Oct 2016 | Politics and the English Language: An Update | Speaker(s): Barry Spurr | Miranda Devine Date: 2016-10-05 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8-12 Chifley Square (entrance via Hunter Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 26th Sep 2016 | Telling it Straight: Behind the Albo Bio | Speaker(s): Karen Middleton Date: 2016-09-26 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street (between Bent & Bridge Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 20th Sep 2016 | From Closed Circle to Fault Lines – A Life | Speaker(s): David Pryce-Jones Date: 2016-09-20 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 12th Sep 2016 | Why Australia is so different from other Western Democracies | Speaker(s): Henry Ergas|William Coleman Date: 2016-09-12 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 6th Sep 2016 | Democracy in Deficit: Why reform in the NSW Liberal Party is necessary for future electoral success | Speaker(s): Angus Taylor Date: 2016-09-06 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 30th Aug 2016 | 100 Years of Disruption, Technology and Science | Speaker(s): David Thodey Date: 2016-08-30 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8 Chifley, 8-12 Chifley Square (enter via Hunter St), Sydney Time: 5:30 for 6pm | |
| 25th Aug 2016 | The Saudi Arabia/Iran Conflict | Speaker(s): Simon Henderson Date: 2016-08-25 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 23rd Aug 2016 | Clinton v Trump: American Politics as Reality Television | Speaker(s): Matt Bai Date: 2016-08-23 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8-12 Chifley Square (entrance via Hunter Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 22nd Aug 2016 | Jobs, Growth and the Importance of Living Within Our Means | Speaker(s): Mathias Cormann Date: 2016-08-22 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 16th Aug 2016 | The Challenge of Funding Australia’s Road System | Speaker(s): Paul Fletcher Date: 2016-08-16 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 9th Aug 2016 | Australia’s Strategic Origins in the South Pacific and its Future in East Asia | Speaker(s): Michael Pembroke Date: 2016-08-09 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street (between Bent & Bridge Streets), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 28th Jul 2016 | Britain: After David Cameron, Brexit and the Chilcot Report | Speaker(s): Tom Tugendhat Date: 2016-07-28 Venue: Allens, Level 28, Deutsche Bank Place, 126 Phillip Street (Corner of Hunter & Phillip Streets), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 27th Jul 2016 | Justice Must Serve | Speaker(s): Gabrielle Upton Date: 2016-07-27 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8 Chifley, 8-12 Chifley Square (enter via Hunter St), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 20th Jul 2016 | Remembering Randolph Stow – Australian Literary Legend | Speaker(s): Suzanne Falkiner Date: 2016-07-20 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street (between Bent & Bridge Streets), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 13th Jul 2016 | Tom Hughes QC – Many Sides to A Character | Speaker(s): Ian Hancock Date: 2016-07-13 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8 Chifley, 8-12 Chifley Square (enter via Hunter St), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 5th Jul 2016 | The 2016 Election: A Reflection | Speaker(s): Aaron Patrick|Caroline Overington Date: 2016-07-05 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney. Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 29th Jun 2016 | Why Music Matters | Speaker(s): Ida Lichter Date: 2016-06-29 Venue: 41 Phillip St, Sydney, THEN Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney. Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 22nd Jun 2016 | The Hilton Bombing – Unravelling The Mysteries | Speaker(s): Rachel Landers Date: 2016-06-22 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street (between Bent & Bridge Streets), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 14th Jun 2014 | The New Economy: More than just a Slogan | Speaker(s): Richard Di Natale Date: 2016-06-14 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip St (between Bent & Bridge Streets), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 9th Jun 2016 | A Greens/Liberal Party Deal? – And the Future of Australian Politics | Speaker(s): Michael Danby Date: 2016-06-09 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip St (between Bent and Bridge Streets), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 7th Jun 2016 | The 2016 Senate Elections | Speaker(s): Fred Nile|Ross Fitzgerald Date: 2016-06-07 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street (between Bent & Bridge Streets), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 31st May 2016 | Election Score at Half Time– The Players, The Stumbles, The Issues | Speaker(s): Aaron Patrick|Caroline Overington Date: 2016-05-31 Venue: King and Wood Mallesons. Level 61, Gov Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 24th May 2016 | Armenia, Australia and the Great War | Speaker(s): Vicken Babkenian Date: 2016-05-24 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street (between Bent & Bridge Streets), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 28th Apr 2016 | The Killing Season | Speaker(s): Sarah Ferguson Date: 2016-04-28 Venue: Maddocks Boardroom, Level 27, Angel Place, 123 Pitt Street (between Hunter and King Street) Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 27th Apr 2016 | Indigenous Recognition – a Conservative Answer | Speaker(s): Julian Leeser|Shireen Morris Date: 2016-04-27 Venue: Gilbert & Tobin, Level 37, 2 Park Street (corner George Street), Sydney. Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 19th Apr 2016 | Passage To Pusan – The Impact of the Korean and Vietnam Wars on an Australian Family | Speaker(s): Louise Evans Date: 2016-04-19 Venue: 41 Phillip St Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 7th Apr 2016 | Australian History and Crime – With Meg and Tom Keneally | Speaker(s): Meg Keneally|Thomas Keneally Date: 2016-04-07 Venue: Corrs, Chambers, Westgarth, Level 17, 8 Chifley, 8-12 Chifley Square (entrance from Hunter Street), Sydney NSW 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6 pm | |
| 30th Mar 2016 | Innovation, Capitalism and Europe | Speaker(s): Annual Dinner|Sajid Javid Date: 2016-03-30 Venue: The Star Ballroom, 80 Pyrmont St, Pyrmont NSW 2009 Time: 6.30pm for 7.30pm | |
| 22nd Mar 2016 | Australia’s World-Leading Energy and Resources Sector: Riding the Waves of Volatility | Speaker(s): Josh Frydenberg Date: 2016-03-22 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 21st Mar 2016 | Aussie Rules & Heartfelt Moments | Speaker(s): Chris Kenny|Gabrielle Trainor|Ross Fitzgerald Date: 2016-03-21 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street (between Bent & Bridge Streets), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 10th Mar 2016 | A New Agenda For Australian Cities | Speaker(s): Anthony Albanese Date: 2016-03-10 Venue: Gilbert +Tobin, Level 37 (Woodstock Room), 2 Park Street (corner George Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 9th Mar 2016 | Australia’s Multiculturalism – Success or Not? | Speaker(s): Parnell McGuinness|Sev Ozdowski|Tim Soutphommasane Date: 2016-03-09 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street) Sydney Time: 5.00 for 5.30pm | |
| 7th Mar 2016 | Bird On An Ethics Wire – Battles About Values In The Culture Wars | Speaker(s): Margaret Somerville Date: 2016-03-07 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 29th Feb 2016 | Modern Government: Less Can Be More | Speaker(s): Gladys Berejiklian Date: 2016-02-29 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5:30 for 6pm | |
| 16th Feb 2016 | Respectable Free Settler or Audacious Convict? The Mystery of Artist S T Gill | Speaker(s): Babette Smith Date: 2016-02-16 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 10th Feb 2016 | The Art of Argument | Speaker(s): David Marr|Gerard Henderson Date: 2016-02-10 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5.00 for 5.30pm | |
| 2nd Feb 2016 | Why, Oh Why, Do We Love Paris? | Speaker(s): Alice Grundy|Oleh Butchatsky Date: 2016-02-02 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 1st Feb 2016 | Israel’s Politics Today | Speaker(s): Efraim Inbar Date: 2016-02-01 Venue: They Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 28th Jan 2016 | The Budget- In Context | Speaker(s): John Fraser Date: 2016-01-28 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Time: 5.30 for … | |
| 9th Dec 2015 | Defending Australia’s National Interests in a Changing World | Speaker(s): Stephen Conroy Date: 2015-12-09 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 23rd Dec 2015 | Offshore Processing: The Way Forward | Speaker(s): Richard Marles Date: 2015-12-03 Venue: Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 23rd Nov 2015 | Kidnapping for Ransom – The Graeme Thorne Tragedy | Speaker(s): Mark Tedeschi Date: 2015-11-23 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5:30 for 6pm | |
| 17th Nov 2015 | Canberra’s Story – Marion Mahony and Burley Griffin | Speaker(s): Glenda Korporaal Date: 2015-11-17 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 9th Nov 2015 | The Dismissal- Different Views | Speaker(s): Anne Twomey|Gerard Henderson|Paul Kelly Date: 2015-11-09 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5.00 for 5.30PM | |
| 2nd Nov 2015 | Wealth, Rivalry and Asia’s New Geopolitics | Speaker(s): Michael Wesley Date: 2015-11-02 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 27th Oct 2015 | “Can Do” – The Campbell Newman Story | Speaker(s): Campbell Newman|Gavin King Date: 2015-10-27 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge street and Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5:30 for 6pm | |
| 20th Oct 2015 | Tragedy and Scandal – Mrs Mort, Eugenia and the Courts | Speaker(s): Suzanne Falkiner Date: 2015-10-20 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 13th Oct 2015 | Lessons from Prime Ministers’ Chiefs of Staff | Speaker(s): Anne Tiernan Date: 2015-10-13 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 30th Sep 2015 | Building Life After 70 – Frank Lowy’s Story | Speaker(s): Jill Margo Date: 2015-09-30 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5:30 for 6pm | |
| 28th Sep 2015 | Heading in the Right Direction: Much More Work to Do | Speaker(s): Mathias Cormann Date: 2015-09-28 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8 Chifley Square (entrance from Hunter Street) Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 22nd Sep 2015 | On the Edges of History | Speaker(s): Michael Sexton Date: 2015-09-22 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 15th Sep 2015 | Canberra Knights: The Rise and Fall of the Public Service Mandarins | Speaker(s): John Nethercote Date: 2015-09-15 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 7th Sep 2015 | The Future for Christians in the Middle East | Speaker(s): Samuel Tadros Date: 2015-09-07 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 1st Sep 2015 | Australians and Foreign Investment | Speaker(s): David Uren Date: 2015-09-01 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 25th Aug 2015 | My Misguided Youth: With Tony Abbott, Bob Carr and Many More | Speaker(s): Greg Sheridan Date: 2015-08-25 Venue: NAB, Level 28, 255 George Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 24th Aug 2015 | Divided Palestinians – The Consequences | Speaker(s): Bassem Eid Date: 2015-08-24 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney, 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 18th Aug 2015 | Restoring Australia’s Competitiveness | Speaker(s): Kate Carnell Date: 2015-08-18 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 13, 1 Bligh St, Sydney Time: 5:30 for 6pm | |
| 17th Aug 2015 | Narendra Modi at the Crossroads: Will the Indian PM Fulfil his Potential? | Speaker(s): Sadanand Dhume Date: 2015-08-17 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 12th Aug 2015 | Remembering B.A. Santamaria [Sydney Launch of Gerard Henderson’s Santamaria: A Most Unusual Man (MUP) on the centenary of Santamaria’s birth] | Speaker(s): Gerard Henderson Date: 2015-08-12 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8 Chifley Square (entrance from Hunter Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 5th Aug 2015 | Australia’s Top 12 Treasurers | Speaker(s): Chris Bowen|Selwyn Cornish Date: 2015-08-05 Venue: Lend Lease, The Atrium on the Ground Floor, 30 The Bond, 30 Hickson Road, Millers Point Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 30th Jul 2015 | Melbourne Launch of Gerard Henderson’s Santamaria: A Most Unusual Man | Speaker(s): Gerard Henderson|Louise Adler|Mark Leibler|Tony Abbott Date: 2015-07-30 Venue: Arnold Bloch Leibler, 21/333 Collins Street, Melbourne Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 29th Jul 2015 | From India With Love | Speaker(s): Latika Bourke Date: 2015-07-29 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 21st Jul 2015 | Delivering the best service: addressing family and domestic violence | Speaker(s): Marise Payne Date: 2015-07-21 Venue: Allens, Level 28 Deutsche Bank Place, 126 Phillip Street (Corner of Hunter and Phillip Streets), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 15th Jul 2015 | The “Joh for Canberra” Political Drama – what really happened? | **Book from 1 July ** LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Paul Davey Date: 2015-07-15 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney, NSW 2000 Time: 5:30 for 6pm | |
| 7th Jul 2015 | Magna Carta and The Rule of Law in the Digital Age | ASSOCIATES & 1 ASSOCIATE GUEST ONLY **Book from 24 June ** Speaker(s): Malcolm Turnbull Date: 2015-07-07 Venue: Clayton Utz Boardroom, Level 14, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 24th Jun 2015 | Political Fiction and Non-Fiction – Alan Reid (1914-1987) and Peter Coleman | **Book from 10 June** Speaker(s): Helen Trinca|Peter Coleman|Ross Fitzgerald Date: 2015-06-24 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 22nd Jun 2015 | The Abbott Government – A Mid-Term Report | **Book from 8 June** BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Chris Kenny|Dimitri Burshtein|Jennifer Hewett|Rebecca Huntley Date: 2015-06-22 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street … | |
| 15th Jun 2015 | Industrial Relations Down Under – Where to Next? | BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS **Book from 1 June ** Speaker(s): Judith Sloan|Mark Lennon Date: 2015-06-15 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & … | |
| 9th Jun 2015 | The Legacy of the Magna Carta – 800 Hundred Years On | **Book from 26 May ** BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Anya Poukchanski|Hugh Harley|Tim Wilson Date: 2015-06-09 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge … | |
| 27th May 2015 | Constitutional Recognition for Indigenous Australia | **Book from 13 May** BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Frank Brennan|Megan Davis Date: 2015-05-27 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred … | |
| 20th May 2015 | Small Business After the 2015 Budget | **Book from 5 May ** Speaker(s): Bruce Billson Date: 2015-05-20 Venue: Maddocks, Level 27, Angel Place, 123 Pitt Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 19th May 2015 | The Untold Story of Australia and The Soviet Jews 1959-1989 | **Book from 5 May ** BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Sam Lipski Date: 2015-05-19 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred … | |
| 11th May 2015 | Nixon and Whitlam at War: Legacies of the 1970s US-Australia Alliance Crisis | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS **Book from 27 April 2015 Speaker(s): James Curran Date: 2015-05-11 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 6th May 2015 | The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia | ASSOCIATES & 1 ASSOCIATE GUEST ONLY Speaker(s): Geoffrey Blainey Date: 2015-05-06 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8 Chifley Square (entrance from Hunter Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 27th Apr 2015 | The Sydney Institute’s Annual Dinner 2015 | Speaker(s): Annual Dinner|Julie Bishop Date: 2015-04-27 Venue: Time: | |
| 22nd Apr 2015 | Reflections on Leadership, Love and Survival | **Book from 8 April 2015** Speaker(s): Anna Bligh Date: 2015-04-22 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 21st Apr 2015 | Australia and the War with the Ottoman Empire | **Book from 7 April ** LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Jeffrey Grey Date: 2015-04-21 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 9th Apr 2015 | A Square Deal for Families and Young Australians | ASSOCIATES & 1 ASSOCIATE GUEST ONLY **Book from 26 March ** Speaker(s): Scott Morrison Date: 2015-04-09 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney. … | |
| 7th Apr 2015 | The Nuclear Opportunity | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Sean Edwards Date: 2015-04-07 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 31st Mar 2015 | The Outbreak of the Great War in the South Pacific – Germany v The Allies | **Book from 17 March** LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Bartholomaeus Zielinski Date: 2015-03-31 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 24th Mar 2015 | How “Progressives” got the Khmer Rouge so Wrong | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Milton Osborne Date: 2015-03-24 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 17th Mar 2015 | Stimulating the Economic Growth through Tax Reform | **Book from 3 March ** Speaker(s): Arthur Laffer Date: 2015-03-17 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 13, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 10th Mar 2015 | Our Troubled Youth – Some Answers | Bookings from 24 Feb**BAR OPENS AT 5 PM**LIGHT REFRESHMENTS**NOTE TIME Speaker(s): David Cole|Lane Hinchcliffe|Matt Noffs|Wendy McCarthy Date: 2015-03-10 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred … | |
| 3rd Mar 2015 | Repairing Social Housing – A Big Job That Can’t Wait | **Book from 17 Feb** BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Gabrielle Upton Date: 2015-03-03 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), … | |
| 25th Feb 2015 | The Australian Century – the one just gone and the one to come | **Book from 11 Feb** BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Andrew Tink|Asher Judah Date: 2015-02-25 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred … | |
| 17th Feb 2015 | Telling the Secrets – Writing the Official History of ASIO | **Book from 3 Feb** BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): David Horner Date: 2015-02-17 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), … | |
| 10th Feb 2015 | Passion and History | **Book from 26 Jan** BAR OPENS AT 5 PM ** LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Blanche D’Alpuget|Stephanie Dowrick Date: 2015-02-10 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), … | |
| 5th Feb 2015 | The New Generation Gap – Ending The Age of Entitlement for Governments | BOOKINGS FROM 21 JANUARY**LIGHT REFRESHMENTS**BAR OPENS AT 5PM Speaker(s): Dominic Perrottet Date: 2015-02-05 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for … | |
| 28th Jan 2015 | The Wife Drought | ASSOCIATES & 1 ASSOCIATE GUEST ONLY **Book from 14 Jan** BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Annabel Crabb Date: 2015-01-28 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street … | |
| 10th Dec 2014 | London Launch of Anne Henderson’s Menzies at War | Speaker(s): Alexander Downer|Anne Henderson|Carl Bridge Date: 2014-12-10 Venue: Time: | |
| 27th Nov 2014 | John Monash: His Life and Times | **Bookings from 13 November only** Speaker(s): Tim Fischer Date: 2014-11-27 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 19th Nov 2014 | Transforming NSW in the context of Federation reform | **Bookings from 5 November only Speaker(s): Andrew Constance Date: 2014-11-19 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 17th Nov 2014 | Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq | **Bookings from 3 November only** Please note time: 12.15pm for 12.45pm, concludes at 1.45pm Speaker(s): Aaron Zelin Date: 2014-11-17 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: Please note time: 12.15pm for … | |
| 13th Nov 2014 | The Australian Model For Inclusive Growth: A Message For The G20 | **Bookings from 30 October Only** [MEMBERS and 1 GUEST ONLY] Speaker(s): Bill Shorten Date: 2014-11-13 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: … | |
| 11th Nov 2014 | Honouring Dishonour | BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Gabrielle Lord Date: 2014-11-11 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for … | |
| 10th Nov 2014 | Linda Burney – A Life | **Bookings from 26 Oct only** LIGHT REFRESHMENTS** Speaker(s): Linda Burney|Marie Bashir|Noel Beddoe Date: 2014-11-10 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 … | |
| 5th Nov 2014 | Poetry and Science – and the Future | **Bookings from 21 Oct only** LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Geoffrey Lehmann Date: 2014-11-05 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 27th Oct 2014 | Murder most Foul? – The Disturbing Case of Louisa Collins | **Bookings from 13 Oct only** **BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS** Speaker(s): Caroline Overington Date: 2014-10-27 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred … | |
| 14th Oct 2014 | Competition Policy – the next 20 years | **Bookings from 1 Oct only ** BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Ian Harper Date: 2014-10-14 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & … | |
| 8th Oct 2014 | Robert Menzies: December 1949 – January 1966 | **Bookings from 23 Sept only ** [Members & one guest only] Speaker(s): John Howard Date: 2014-10-08 Venue: Clayton Utz Boardroom, Level 14, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 2nd Oct 2014 | Reaching for the Summit – Australian Women in Power | NOTE CHANGE OF DATE BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Geraldine Doogue Date: 2014-10-02 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), … | |
| 24th Sep 2014 | Triumph and Demise: the story of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd government | **Bookings from 9 September Only** Speaker(s): Paul Kelly Date: 2014-09-24 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 22nd Sep 2014 | Defending the History of Australia | **Bookings from 8 Sept only **LIGHT REFRESHMENTS** Speaker(s): Robert Murray Date: 2014-09-22 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 16th Sep 2014 | Childcare and Early Childhood Learning | **Bookings from 31 July Only**Bar Opens At 5pm** LIGHT REFRESHMENTS** Speaker(s): Wendy Craik Date: 2014-09-16 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: … | |
| 9th Sep 2014 | Industry Policy – A Competitive Agenda | Speaker(s): Ian Macfarlane Date: 2014-09-09 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 8th Sep 2014 | Energy Innovation: Proving the Catastrophists Wrong | **Bookings from 26 August only ** Speaker(s): Robert Bryce Date: 2014-09-08 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 26th Aug 2014 | Beyond the Boom – How has the mining boom changed Australia? | **Bookings from 12 July only **LIGHT REFRESHMENTS** Speaker(s): John Edwards Date: 2014-08-26 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 21st Aug 2014 | Responding to the Caliphate – From Israel to Iraq | **Bookings from 7 August **BAR OPENS AT 5PM**LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Michael Danby Date: 2014-08-21 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 … | |
| 19th Aug 2014 | Australia Needs A Fiscal Reality Check | **Bookings from 03 August only** Speaker(s): Mathias Cormann Date: 2014-08-19 Venue: Allens, Level 28 Deutsche Bank Place, 126 Phillip Street (Corner of Hunter and Phillip Streets), Sydney Time: … | |
| 13th Aug 2014 | The Men Behind the Masks: The New Leadership of China and the World they Live In | **Bookings from 31 July Only**Bar Opens At 5pm** LIGHT REFRESHMENTS** Speaker(s): Kerry Brown Date: 2014-08-13 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: … | |
| 6th Aug 2014 | Making History – The Executions of Ellen Thompson & Jean Lee | BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Jordie Albiston|Vashti Farrer Date: 2014-08-06 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 5th Aug 2014 | Indigenous Employment: The Great Hope for Closing the Gap | **Bar Opens At 5pm** LIGHT REFRESHMENTS** Speaker(s): Alan Tudge Date: 2014-08-05 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5:30 for 6pm | |
| 30th Jul 2014 | The Sociology of Online Dating | **Bookings from 16 July only ** Speaker(s): Bettina Arndt Date: 2014-07-30 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8 Chifley Square (entrance from Hunter Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 29th Jul 2014 | Human Rights and North Korea | **Bookings from 15 July only ** BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Michael Kirby Date: 2014-07-29 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street &Alfred … | |
| 22nd Jul 2014 | The Making of The Australian Working Class – An Irish Perspective | **Bookings from 8th July only**LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Babette Smith Date: 2014-07-22 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 18th Jul 2014 | Launch of Anne Hendersons Menzies at War (Melbourne) | Speaker(s): Anne Henderson|Geoffrey Blainey|Josh Frydenberg|Mark Leibler Date: 2014-07-18 Venue: Time: | |
| 8th Jul 2014 | Learning Let Loose: Reforming Our Universities | **Bookings from 23 June only ** Speaker(s): Warren Bebbington Date: 2014-07-08 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8 Chifley Square (entrance from Hunter Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 1st Jul 2014 | Launch of Anne Henderson’s Menzies at War | **Bookings from 15 June only ** Note time Speaker(s): Anne Henderson|Barry O’Farrell Date: 2014-07-01 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 12.30 … | |
| 30th Jun 2014 | One Stop Shop: The Abbott Government’s McClure Report & Its Consequences | Speaker(s): Kevin Andrews Date: 2014-06-30 Venue: Allens, Level 28 Deutsche Bank Place, 126 Phillip Street (Cnr Hunter & Phillip Sts) Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 25th Jun 2014 | Modelling Global Temperatures – What’s Wrong. Bourke & Amberley – as Case Studies | **Bookings from 11 June only ** BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Jennifer Marohasy Date: 2014-06-25 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street … | |
| 18th Jun 2014 | Australia’s Iconic Houses | **Bookings from 4 June only ** BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Karen McCartney Date: 2014-06-18 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred … | |
| 16th Jun 2014 | The Price of a Wife – Test Cricketer Arthur Coningham V Catholic priest Denis O’Haran | **Bookings from 28 May only ** LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Anne Cunningham Date: 2014-06-16 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 11th Jun 2014 | A Budget For Opportunity | Speaker(s): Joe Hockey Date: 2014-06-11 Venue: Clayton Utz, Level 14, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 4th Jun 2014 | Australia and War: Some Lessons of the Vietnam era | **Bookings from 21 May only ** BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Peter Edwards Date: 2014-06-04 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred … | |
| 27th May 2014 | Diary of a Foreign Minister | **Bookings from 13 May only ** BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Bob Carr Date: 2014-05-27 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred … | |
| 21st May 2014 | Ten Ways to Tackle Drugs Today – The Story of the Street University | **Bookings from 7 May only ** BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Matt Noffs|Naomi Noffs Date: 2014-05-21 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus … | |
| 13th May 2014 | Freedom wars? Or the 21st Century contest of ideas? | **Bookings from 30 Aprilonly **BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Tim Wilson Date: 2014-05-13 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred … | |
| 28th Apr 2014 | The Sydney Institute’s Annual Dinner 2014 | Speaker(s): Annual Dinner|Tony Abbott Date: 2014-04-28 Venue: The Star, Pyrmont, Sydney Time: 6.30 for 7pm | |
| 23rd Apr 2014 | The Abbott Government’s First 200 Days | Speaker(s): Gerard Henderson|Jennifer Hewett|Patricia Karvelas Date: 2014-04-23 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 13, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney Time: 5pm for 5.30pm | |
| 22nd April 2014 | The Geopolitics of America’s Pivot to the Pacific | Speaker(s): Andrew Neil Date: 2014-04-22 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 16th Apr 2014 | Enabling Efficient & Effective Environmental Management | Speaker(s): Simon Birmingham Date: 2014-04-16 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 8th Apr 2014 | Beyond the Horror – Gardens, Ghettos and Georgina | **Bookings from 25 March** LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Gabriella Kovac|Jacquelynne Willcox Date: 2014-04-08 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 2nd Apr 2014 | Fiscal Sustainability & Living Standards – The Decade Ahead | Speaker(s): Martin Parkinson Date: 2014-04-02 Venue: Allens Linklaters, Level 28 Deutsche Bank Place, 126 Phillip Street (Cnr Hunter & Phillip Sts) Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 31st Mar 2014 | Responding to crises of human rights – from North Korea to Syria? | **Bookings from 17 March Only** Speaker(s): Ken Roth Date: 2014-03-31 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8 Chifley Square (entry on Hunter Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 24th Mar 2014 | Harry Seidler’s Sydney Vision | **Bookings 10 March only ** Speaker(s): Helen O’Neill Date: 2014-03-24 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 18th Mar 2014 | Labor’s Future | Speaker(s): John Robertson Date: 2014-03-18 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 12th Mar 2014 | Demographics, Productivity and Innovation | **Bookings from 27 Feb only** Speaker(s): Phil Lowe Date: 2014-03-12 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 11th Mar 2014 | Ukraine: Strategic Lynchpin or the Next Bosnia? | Speaker(s): Walter Zaryckyj Date: 2014-03-11 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 6th Mar 2014 | Friends & Neighbours: Australia and the World | Speaker(s): Julie Bishop Date: 2014-03-06 Venue: Melbourne Room, Level 1, Sofitel Sydney Wentworth, 61-101 Phillip Street Sydney (Between Hunter and Bent Street) Sydney Time: 6.00 for 6.15pm | |
| 4th Mar 2014 | The Empress Who Launched Modern China | **Bookings from 19 Feb only ** BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Jung Chang Date: 2014-03-04 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & … | |
| 27th Feb 2014 | Implications of the Upheaval in the Middle East | **Bookings from 13 February only** BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Ehud Ya’ari Date: 2014-02-27 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), … | |
| 21st Feb 2014 | Britain and the World Economy in 2014 | Speaker(s): George Osborne Date: 2014-02-21 Venue: Time: | |
| 18th Feb 104 | Kings Cross – Its Life and Times | **Bookings from 4 February only** BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Louis Nowra Date: 2014-02-18 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred … | |
| 11th Feb 2014 | 1914-A Century Later | **Bookings from 28 Jan only ** BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Joan Beaumont Date: 2014-02-11 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus St (between Bridge Street & … | |
| 6th Feb 2014 | Re-opening the Whitlam File | **Bookings from 23 January only** BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Nicholas Hasluck Date: 2014-02-06 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred … | |
| 28th Jan 2014 | Industrial Relations: After the 30 Years War | BAR OPENS AT 5 PM – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Eric Abetz Date: 2014-01-28 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5:30 for … | |
| 11th Dec 2013 | Gough Whitlam’s Legacy – What Worked; What Didn’t | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS **Bookings from 28 November Only** Speaker(s): Gerard Henderson|John O’Mahony|Susan Ryan|Troy Bramston Date: 2013-12-11 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney … | |
| 28th Nov 2013 | The Unravelling Middle East | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS **Bookings from 14 November Only** Speaker(s): Frederick Kagan|Kim Kagan Date: 2013-11-28 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 26th Nov 2013 | Freedom of Speech: How can it be balanced with racial vilification | **Bookings from 12 Nov only ** Speaker(s): Gillian Triggs Date: 2013-11-26 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 20th Nov 2013 | The Liberal Party (NSW Division): The Case for Reform | Speaker(s): John Ruddick Date: 2013-11-20 Venue: NAB House, Level 28, 255 George Street (near Bridge Street), Sydney Time: 5:30 for 6pm | |
| 14th Nov 2013 | Trust in Politics: Who Cares? | Bookings from 1 Nov only Speaker(s): Mike Baird Date: 2013-11-14 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 12th Nov 2013 | Norman Haire – Studying Sex in the Early 20th Century | *Bookings from 30 October only* LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Diana Wyndham Date: 2013-11-12 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 6th Nov 2013 | James Cook’s Three Remarkable Voyages of Discovery in the Pacific | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS **Bookings from 25 Oct only ** Speaker(s): Rob Mundle Date: 2013-11-06 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 29th Oct 2013 | Labor after the 2013 Election | *Bookings from 15 October only* LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Aaron Patrick|Chris Uhlmann Date: 2013-10-29 Venue: Time: 5:30 for 6pm | |
| 28th Oct 2013 | The Abbott Government’s Deregulation Agenda | **Bookings from 7 Oct Only*** Speaker(s): Josh Frydenberg Date: 2013-10-28 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 23rd Oct 2013 | Remembering Sir Robert and Dame Pattie Menzies | *Booking From 9 October only* Speaker(s): Heather Henderson Date: 2013-10-23 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 17, 8 Chifley, Sydney (opposite Chifley Sq, between Phillip, Hunter and Elizabeth Streets) Time: 5:30 … | |
| 15th Oct 2013 | Franklin D Roosevelt and America’s European Pivot | *Bookings from 1 October only * LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Michael Fullilove Date: 2013-10-15 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 10th Oct 2013 | Egypt Today – The Way to Peace | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Mohamed Abdel Hay El-Orabi Date: 2013-10-10 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 8th Oct 2013 | Henry Plantagenet, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Power, Seduction and Politics | Speaker(s): Blanche D’Alpuget Date: 2013-10-08 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus St (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street) Sydney NSW 2000 Time: 5:30 for 6pm | |
| 2nd Oct 2013 | Going to the People – Election Campaign 2013 | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Michelle Rowland|Sarah Henderson Date: 2013-10-02 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5:30 for 6pm | |
| 26th Oct 2013 | An Australian at the Holy See | Bar Opens at 5pm – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Tim Fischer Date: 2013-09-26 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus St (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street) Sydney NSW 2000 Time: 5:30 … | |
| 17th Sep 2013 | Woman in The Australian Defence Force | Speaker(s): Elizabeth Broderick Date: 2013-09-17 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 13, 1 Bligh Street (corner Bent Street), Sydney (NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE) Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 10th Sep 2013 | Nick Greiner – A Political Life | *Bookings 28 August* LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Ian Hancock Date: 2013-09-10 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 4th Sep 2013 | Who Runs China and How? | This function will be hosted jointly with the Asia Society Speaker(s): Rowan Callick Date: 2013-09-04 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 13, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney Time: 5:30 for 6pm | |
| 3rd Sep 2013 | Australia’s Immigration Future under a Coalition Government | BAR OPENS AT 5pm – LIGHT REFRESHMENTS. Speaker(s): Scott Morrison Date: 2013-09-03 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus St, Sydney NSW 2000 Time: 5:30 for 6pm | |
| 2nd Sep 2013 | Australia in the next decade – A Gen X Point of View | Speaker(s): Kelly O’Dwyer|Stephen Jones Date: 2013-09-02 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32 Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5:30 for 6pm | |
| 28th Aug 2013 | The Middle East in Upheaval: Interpreting and Predicting | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Daniel Pipes Date: 2013-08-28 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 5:30 for 6pm | |
| 19th Aug 2013 | Iran, Red Lines and Other Threats | Light Refreshments Speaker(s): Michael Singh Date: 2013-08-19 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 13th Aug 2013 | The Greens and Labor – Allies or Enemies? | Speaker(s): Brad Orgill|Cassandra Wilkinson Date: 2013-08-13 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5:30 for 6pm | |
| 6th Aug 2013 | Australia’s Game: Football as Art and Culture | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Barry Oakley|Peter Corris|Ross Fitzgerald Date: 2013-08-06 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 30th Jul 2013 | God and the Lodge:The Religious Beliefs of Australian Prime Ministers | Additional Information: LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Roy Williams Date: 2013-07-30 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 5:30 for 6pm | |
| 24th Jul 2013 | Literary Festivals – Classroom, Sandpit or Amusement Park? | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Alice Grundy|Michael Sexton Date: 2013-07-24 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 16th Jul 2013 | International Law, Climate Change and National Security | Speaker(s): Mark Dreyfus Date: 2013-07-16 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 10th Jul 2013 | Whatever Happened to Economic Reform? A Gen X Reflection | Speaker(s): John Kunkel Date: 2013-07-10 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 2nd Jul 2013 | Forty Years in the Making – Why leadership is the least of Labor’s troubles | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS NOTE: CHANGE OF VENUE Speaker(s): Nick Cater Date: 2013-07-02 Venue: King and Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 17th Jun 2013 | The Real Marriage Question | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE Speaker(s): Bettina Arndt Date: 2013-06-17 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 12th Jun 2013 | Efficiency in Government | Speaker(s): Paul Fletcher Date: 2013-06-12 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 4th Jun 2013 | John Carrick and Australian Politics | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Graeme Starr Date: 2013-06-04 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 30th May 2013 | Choosing the Right Market Mechanisms for Addressing Environmental Problems | Speaker(s): Greg Hunt Date: 2013-05-30 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 13, 1 Bligh St Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 24th May 2013 | US Policy Priorities and the “Rebalance” to the Asia-Pacific | NOTE TIME Light Refreshments Speaker(s): Bonnie Glaser Date: 2013-05-24 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 12.30 for 1pm | |
| 23rd May 2013 | Geelong Grammar and its place in Australian History | Bookings from 9 May only LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Michael Collins Persse Date: 2013-05-23 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 22nd May 2013 | Politics and the Australian Coal Industry – what’s next? | Bookings from 8 May only NOTE CHANGE OF DATE AND VENUE Speaker(s): Nikki Williams Date: 2013-05-22 Venue: AGL Theatre, Museum of Sydney, Corner Bridge and Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5:30 … | |
| 21st May 2013 | In Defence of silliness, prurience and sedition. Being a gossip columnist. | BOOKINGS FROM 7 MAY 2013 Speaker(s): Joe Aston Date: 2013-05-21 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 13th May 2013 | Sir Thomas Daly and Australia’s Military Commitments – from Tobruk to Vietnam | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Jeffrey Grey Date: 2013-05-13 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 8th May 2013 | Searching for Madeleine St John – The Craft of Biography | Bookings from 23 April only LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Helen Trinca Date: 2013-05-08 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 7th May 2013 | The Freedom Wars | BOOKINGS FROM 22 APRIL 2013 Speaker(s): George Brandis Date: 2013-05-07 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 13, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 1st May 2013 | Business and the Cyber Wars | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS BOOKINGS FROM 22 APRIL 2013 Speaker(s): John M Green Date: 2013-05-01 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 30th Apr 2013 | Surrounded On All Sides – Five Lessons In Leadership From History | Speaker(s): Amanda Foreman|Annual Dinner Date: 2013-04-30 Venue: The Sydney Convention Centre Parkside Ballroom Time: 6.30 for 7pm | |
| 23rd Apr 2013 | Scientists and policy makers: why are they incompatible? | NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE Speaker(s): Herbert Huppert Date: 2013-04-23 Venue: King and Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 22nd Apr 2013 | Italian Politics after the 2013 Election | Speaker(s): Giulia Massotti|Luca Bader Date: 2013-04-22 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 16th Apr 2013 | 2013/04/16 | The Gonski Report – Yes or No | Speaker(s): Jane Caro|Kevin Donnelly Date: 2013-04-16 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 13, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm |
| 8th Apr 2013 | Australia 1940 – The Air Crash that Killed a Government | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Andrew Tink Date: 2013-04-08 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 27th Mar 2013 | Australia In A More Competitive World | Speaker(s): Arthur Sinodinos Date: 2013-03-27 Venue: Report to Lobby Reception, Westpac, 275 Kent Street (between Erskine & Margaret Streets) Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 19th Mar 2013 | Indigenous Australians and Violence – Some Answers | Speaker(s): Gary Johns|Stephanie Jarrett Date: 2013-03-19 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 15th Mar 2013 | Indigenous Affairs – A Coalition Approach | ASSOCIATE MEMBERS & ASSOCIATE GUESTS – $20 ENTRANCE FEE PER PERSON/ OTHERS $30 per person] Speaker(s): Tony Abbott Date: 2013-03-15 Venue: Auditorium, Wesley Conference Centre, 220 Pitt St, Sydney … | |
| 12th Mar 2013 | US – Middle East Relations: New Administration; New Relationship? | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Steven Rosen Date: 2013-03-12 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 7th Mar 2013 | Australian Politics 2013 | Speaker(s): Niki Savva|Troy Bramston Date: 2013-03-07 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 13, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 5th Mar 2013 | Remembering the Katyn Massacre | Light refreshments will be served Speaker(s): Patryk Pleskot Date: 2013-03-05 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 4th Mar 2013 | Infrastructure – Driving Productivity | Speaker(s): Anthony Albanese Date: 2013-03-04 Venue: Gilbert + Tobin, Level 37, 2 Park Street (Corner George Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 27th Feb 2013 | The Changing Face of Female Communication | Speaker(s): Mia Freedman Date: 2013-02-27 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 19th Feb 2013 | Integrity in Politics | Light refreshments will be served Speaker(s): John Madigan Date: 2013-02-19 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 15th Feb 2013 | Bob Carr in conversation with Gerard Henderson and Jacquelynne Willcox | Speaker(s): Bob Carr Date: 2013-02-15 Venue: King and Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 12th Feb 2013 | From “The Bride Stripped Bare” to “Notes on Life” | Speaker(s): Nikki Gemmell Date: 2013-02-12 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 4th Feb 2013 | Why The Eureka Rebellion Still Matters | Speaker(s): Peter FitzSimons Date: 2013-02-04 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 30th Jan 2013 | John Kerr and the Dismissal: A Response to Jenny Hocking | Please note the change of venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 13, 1 Bligh Street (corner Bent Street), Sydney Speaker(s): David Smith Date: 2013-01-30 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level … | |
| 12th Dec 2012 | War Crimes Trials: From Nuremberg to Guantanamo Bay | Speaker(s): William Shawcross Date: 2012-12-12 Venue: Maddocks, Angel Place, Level 21, 123 Pitt Street (between Hunter Street and King Street), Sydney. [NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE] Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 28th Nov 2012 | The Transport Future For NSW | [NOTE CHANGE OF DATE] Speaker(s): Gladys Berejiklian Date: 2012-11-28 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 26th Nov 2012 | The Treason of the Intellectuals | Speaker(s): David Pryce-Jones Date: 2012-11-26 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 21st Nov 2012 | A Political Life – and Kevin Rudd | Speaker(s): Maxine McKew Date: 2012-11-21 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 13th Nov 2012 | America Today | Speaker(s): Leonard Harlan Date: 2012-11-13 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 13, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 12th Nov 2012 | The Battle of Mont St Quentin-Peronne – Lest we forget | Light refreshments will be served Speaker(s): Michele Bomford Date: 2012-11-12 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 7th Nov 2012 | “Other People’s Wars”? An assessment of Australia’s Military Commitments | Light refreshments will be served. Speaker(s): Craig Stockings Date: 2012-11-07 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 5th Nov 2012 | India at a Crossroads: Will its Politics Allow it to Fulfill its Promise? | Light refreshments will be served. Speaker(s): Sadanand Dhume Date: 2012-11-05 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 31st Oct 2012 | Turkey and the Middle-East | Light refreshments will be served. Speaker(s): Taner Akçam Date: 2012-10-31 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 30th Oct 2012 | Farewell, Dear People: Biographies of Gifted Australians who Died in the Great War | Light refreshments will be served. Speaker(s): Ross McMullin Date: 2012-10-30 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 23rd Oct 2012 | Why the Australian Labor Party is the Party of small business | Speaker(s): Brendan O’Connor Date: 2012-10-23 Venue: Gilbert + Tobin, Level 37 – Woodstock Room, 2 Park Street (corner George Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 17th Oct 2012 | Melbourne Before Archbishop Daniel Mannix | Light refreshments will be served. Speaker(s): Patrick Morgan Date: 2012-10-17 Venue: 41 Phillip Street (between Bent and Bridge Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 10th Oct 2012 | Retail and its competitive future | Speaker(s): Margy Osmond Date: 2012-10-10 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 4th Oct 2012 | Time To Bring Troops Safely Home From Afghanistan | Speaker(s): Christine Milne Date: 2012-10-04 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 27th Sep 2012 | The Asian Century | Speaker(s): Craig Emerson Date: 2012-09-27 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 18th Sep 2012 | Four Corners’ Stories that Changed Australia | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Liz Jackson Date: 2012-09-18 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 11th Sep 2012 | Writing About the Holocaust – and its Australian Connections | Light refreshments will be served. Speaker(s): Belinda Castles Date: 2012-09-11 Venue: 41 Phillip Street (between Bent and Bridge Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 5th Sep 2012 | Gazing (again) at Gough | Light refreshments will be served. Speaker(s): Jenny Hocking Date: 2012-09-05 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 30th Aug 2012 | Building A New Age of Certainty | Speaker(s): Joe Hockey Date: 2012-08-30 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 13, 1 Bligh Street (corner Bent Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 28th Aug 2012 | China: A Matter of Facts | Light refreshments will be served. Speaker(s): Geremie Barmé Date: 2012-08-28 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 14th Aug 2012 | The Colonisation of Antarctica | Light refreshments will be served. Speaker(s): David Day Date: 2012-08-14 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 13th Aug 2012 | Non-Muslim Minorities and the Arab Spring | Light refreshments will be served. Speaker(s): Lydia Khalil Date: 2012-08-13 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Time: 5:30pm for 6pm | |
| 7th Aug 2012 | Making “Mrs Carey’s Concert” | Speaker(s): Bob Connolly|Karen Carey|Sophie Raymond Date: 2012-08-07 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.00 for 5.30pm | |
| 1st Aug 2012 | Sydney as a Global City | Speaker(s): Andrew Low|Jacquelynne Willcox Date: 2012-08-01 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 24th Jul 2012 | Climate Change: What We Know and What We Don’t | Light refreshments will be served. [ASSOCIATES AND ONE GUEST ONLY] Speaker(s): Murry Salby Date: 2012-07-24 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 23rd Jul 2012 | Bishop John Moyes vs Robert Menzies on Banning Communism & the Vietnam War | Light refreshments will be served. Speaker(s): Paul Terracini Date: 2012-07-23 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 16th Jul 2012 | Achieving Teacher Quality: The Coalition’s Approach | Speaker(s): Christopher Pyne Date: 2012-07-16 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 12th Jul 2012 | Launch of “The Yalda Crossing” | Speaker(s): Linda Burney|Noel Beddoe Date: 2012-07-12 Venue: Level 37 (Woodstock Room), Gilbert & Tobin, 2 Park Street (cnr George Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 9th Jul 2012 | Hitler’s Germany Down Under | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): David Bird Date: 2012-07-09 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 3rd Jul 2012 | Living with The Carbon Tax | Speaker(s): Miriam Lyons|Terry McCrann Date: 2012-07-03 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 3rd Jul 2012 | Opportunities for women – is the battle fought and won? [Launch of Women in NSW 2012] | Light refreshments will be served. Speaker(s): Pru Goward Date: 2012-07-03 Venue: Level 41, Governor Macquarie Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 10 am for 10.30 am [PLEASE NOTE TALK IS … | |
| 28th Jun 2012 | Tibet in the Asian Century | [ASSOCIATES & GUEST ONLY] LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Lobsang Sangay Date: 2012-06-28 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 26th Jun 2012 | Losing – and Finding – Italy Down Under | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Rebecca Huntley Date: 2012-06-26 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 19th Jun 2012 | Struggling for the Soul of The Labour Movement | Speaker(s): Cassandra Wilkinson|Jim Macken|Rodney Cavalier Date: 2012-06-19 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 13, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney Time: 5.00 for 5.30 pm [NOTE TIME] | |
| 12th Jun 2012 | How the North was Won | Speaker(s): David Russell Date: 2012-06-12 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 13, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 5th Jun 2012 | Predictability in Australia’s foreign policy | Speaker(s): Julie Bishop Date: 2012-06-05 Venue: King & Wood Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 30th May 2012 | Syria: The Assad Regime and the Rebels | Speaker(s): Jonathan Spyer Date: 2012-05-30 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 28th May 2012 | Finkelstein Media Report and Media Regulation – Two Views | Speaker(s): Gail Hambly|Matthew Ricketson Date: 2012-05-28 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 13, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 23rd May 2012 | Larger than Life – Roddy Meagher QC | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Damien Freeman Date: 2012-05-23 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 22nd May 2012 | A Psychiatrist on the Couch – Views from the Other Side | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Gordon Parker Date: 2012-05-22 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 16th May 2012 | Dame Nellie Melba – A Woman of Contrasts | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Ann Blainey Date: 2012-05-16 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: Wednesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 8th May 2012 | The Australian Dream with Sun, Camels and Grumpy Kelpie | Speaker(s): Heidi Douglas Date: 2012-05-08 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 1st May 2012 | Inequality Matters – What is to done? | Speaker(s): Andrew Leigh|Tony Smith Date: 2012-05-01 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Philip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 17th Apr 2012 | Breaker Morant -War Criminal or Not? | Speaker(s): Craig Wilcox|James Unkles Date: 2012-04-17 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 12th Apr 2012 | Developing A Uniquely Australian School Education System | Speaker(s): Peter Garrett Date: 2012-04-12 Venue: Level 37 (Woodstock Room), Gilbert & Tobin, 2 Park Street (corner George Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 4th Apr 2012 | The Future of Work | Speaker(s): Bill Shorten Date: 2012-04-04 Venue: Smith Room, Wesley Centre, 220 Pitt Street (between Market & Park Street) Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 27th Mar 2012 | Captain Thunderbolt – myth and history | Speaker(s): Carol Baxter|David Roberts Date: 2012-03-27 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 22nd Mar 2012 | Sustainable Finances – Why Bother? | Speaker(s): Mike Baird Date: 2012-03-22 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 13, 1 Bligh Street Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 20th Mar 2012 | The Other Life of the King James Bible | Speaker(s): Annual Dinner|Melvyn Bragg Date: 2012-03-20 Venue: Time: | |
| 14th Mar 2012 | Thinking of Margaret Thatcher | Speaker(s): Alistair McAlpine Date: 2012-03-14 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 13, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 13th Mar 2012 | Christianity’s Story | Speaker(s): Geoffrey Blainey Date: 2012-03-13 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 12th Mar 2012 | The Ottoman Empire and the Contemporary Middle East | Speaker(s): Ehud R. Toledano Date: 2012-03-12 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 6th Mar 2012 | How numbers came to rule the world – [Note Change of Date] | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Jane Gleeson-White Date: 2012-03-06 Venue: 41 Phillip Street (between Bent and Bridge Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 28th Feb 2012 | The Army After Afghanistan | Speaker(s): David Lindsay Morrison Date: 2012-02-28 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 21st Feb 2012 | Australian Politics 2012 | Speaker(s): Niki Savva|Troy Bramston Date: 2012-02-21 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 14th Feb 2012 | The Hazel Hawke Story | Speaker(s): Sue Pieters Hawke Date: 2012-02-14 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 13, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 8th Feb 2012 | Save the Murray: Restore the Estuary | Speaker(s): Jennifer Marohasy Date: 2012-02-08 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 1st Feb 2012 | Lord Sydney and the Founding of Sydney Town | Speaker(s): Andrew Tink Date: 2012-02-01 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 31st Jan 2012 | Political Anecdotes from a Life in the House | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Barry Cohen Date: 2012-01-31 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 24th Jan 2012 | Security and Intelligence in Australia | [ASSOCIATES AND ASSOCIATE GUESTS ONLY] Speaker(s): David Irvine Date: 2012-01-24 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: Tuesday 24th 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 13th Dec 2011 | A Year in Retrospect – a Decade in Prospect | Speaker(s): Martin Parkinson Date: 2011-12-13 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 13, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| Making your own luck – A stronger economy for a stronger Australia | [COST: ASSOCIATE/$10; ASSOCIATE GUEST (ONE ONLY)/$10; NON-MEMBER/$25 EACH] | ||
| 16th Nov 2011 | Foreign Affairs – Life in the Service | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Philip Flood|Richard Woolcott Date: 2011-11-16 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Time: Wednesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 8th Nov 2011 | Are Australians better at poetry than sport? | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Geoffrey Lehmann|Robert Gray Date: 2011-11-08 Venue: 41 Phillip Street (between Bent & Bridge Street), Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 25th Oct 2011 | NSW Family and Community Services: From managing disadvantage to breaking it | Speaker(s): Pru Goward Date: 2011-10-25 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 19th Oct 2011 | Pluralists, Partisans and Public Discourse | Speaker(s): Maurice Newman Date: 2011-10-19 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 15, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney Time: Wednesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 18th Oct 2011 | Politics and the Media | Speaker(s): Annabel Crabb Date: 2011-10-18 Venue: Maddocks, Level 21 Angel Place, 123 Pitt Street (between Hunter Street & Martin Place), Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 18th Oct 2011 | Sydney Book Launch of Joseph Lyons: The People’s Prime Minister | Speaker(s): Anne Henderson|John Howard Date: 2011-10-18 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 15, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney Time: Tuesday 12.30 for 1pm | |
| 5th Oct 2011 | Sharia in the West – is this a reality? | Speaker(s): Raheel Raza Date: 2011-10-05 Venue: Maddocks, Level 21 Angel Place, 123 Pitt Street (between Hunter Street & Martin Place), Sydney Time: Wednesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 4th Oct 2011 | The Role of the ABC in the Arts | Speaker(s): Jonathan Mills Date: 2011-10-04 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 27th Sep 2011 | Australia’s social inclusion heritage – past, present, future | Speaker(s): Tanya Plibersek Date: 2011-09-27 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 20th Sep 2011 | London Schools and The London Riots – Too Much Nanny State? | THE INAUGURAL JIM AND JANETTE BAIN LECTURE 2011 Speaker(s): Katharine Birbalsingh Date: 2011-09-20 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for … | |
| 14th Sep 2011 | The Case for Coal Seam Gas | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Glenda McLoughlin Date: 2011-09-14 Venue: 41 Phillip Street (between Bent & Bridge Street), Sydney Time: Wednesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 13th Sep 2011 | John Henry Newman – A Cardinal For Our Times | Speaker(s): Edmund Campion Date: 2011-09-13 Venue: 41 Phillip Street (between Bent & Bridge Street), Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 6th Sep 2011 | The United States and Australia: Partners in Sustaining Prosperity in the Asia-Pacific | Speaker(s): Thomas Nides Date: 2011-09-06 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 15, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 5th Sep 2011 | It’s Time to Get Real | Speaker(s): Barnaby Joyce Date: 2011-09-05 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: Monday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 31st Aug 2011 | Living with Depression | NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE Speaker(s): Andrew Robb Date: 2011-08-31 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: Wednesday 5:30 for 6pm | |
| 23rd Aug 2011 | God in the 21st Century | Speaker(s): Angela Shanahan|Jeffrey Kamins|Robyn Williams|Shakira Hussein Date: 2011-08-23 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5 for 5:30pm | |
| 17th Aug 2011 | Letters from My Father: Robert Menzies | Speaker(s): Heather Henderson Date: 2011-08-17 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 15, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 16th Aug 2011 | The Challenge of Palestinian State-building | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Khaled Abu Toameh Date: 2011-08-16 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 15th Aug 2011 | To be The Winds of Political and Socio-Economic Change in the Arab Region | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Idriss Jazairy Date: 2011-08-15 Venue: 41 Phillip Street (between Bent & Bridge Street), Sydney Time: Monday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 9th Aug 2011 | Building the foundations for change: Indigenous Affairs in the Gillard Government | [FOR MEMBERS/ASSOCIATES AND THEIR GUESTS ONLY – REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL] Speaker(s): Jenny Macklin Date: 2011-08-09 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 15, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 2nd Aug 2011 | Atmospheric Science, Climate Change and Carbon – Some Facts | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Murry Salby Date: 2011-08-02 Venue: 41 Phillip Street (between Bent & Bridge Street), Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 21st Jul 2011 | Social media in natural disasters – the Queensland experience | Speaker(s): Anna Bligh Date: 2011-07-21 Venue: The Lyceum, Wesley Centre, 220 Pitt Street, Sydney Time: Thursday 5:30 for 6pm | |
| 20th Jul 2011 | Environmental issues and the Murray Darling basin | [FOR MEMBERS/ASSOCIATES AND THEIR GUESTS ONLY – REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL] Speaker(s): Tony Burke Date: 2011-07-20 Venue: Maddocks, Level 21 Angel Place, 123 Pitt Street, Sydney Time: Wednesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 12th Jul 2011 | Climate Change and the Storage of Carbon Dioxide | Speaker(s): Herbert Huppert Date: 2011-07-12 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 14, 1 Bligh Street, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 6th Jul 2011 | Compulsory Superannuation: Two Views | Speaker(s): Dallas McInerney|Ross Cameron Date: 2011-07-06 Venue: National Australia Bank, Level 28, 255 George Street, Sydney Time: Wednesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 5th Jul 2011 | Mother and Son: Life with Austen Tayshus | Speaker(s): Margaret Gutman|Sandy Gutman Date: 2011-07-05 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 4th Jul 2011 | Westmin-Ovation: Valuing people in reform of NSW public services | Cost: Associate/$15; Associate guest (one only)/$15; non-member/$25 each Speaker(s): Barry O’Farrell Date: 2011-07-04 Venue: Four Seasons Hotel, 199 George Street, Sydney Time: Monday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 28th Jun 2011 | Labor, Nation Building and Other Challenges | Speaker(s): Anthony Albanese Date: 2011-06-28 Venue: Stockland, Level 2, 133 Castlereagh Street, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 27th Jun 2011 | Is the War on Terrorism still necessary? | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Michael Rubin Date: 2011-06-27 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: Monday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 21st Jun 2011 | Reflections on Age Discrimination – The price we pay for growing older | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Elizabeth Broderick Date: 2011-06-21 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 14th Jun 2011 | Tobacco Labelling – Two Views | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Ainslie Van Onselen|Simon Chapman Date: 2011-06-14 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 8th Jun 2011 | The Carbon Tax and Regional Australia | EARLY START TIME Speaker(s): Richard Marles|Sophie Mirabella Date: 2011-06-08 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: Wednesday 5 pm for 5.30pm | |
| 7th Jun 2011 | Green Light for Senate Chaos | Speaker(s): Eric Abetz Date: 2011-06-07 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 30th May 2011 | My Life as a Political Blogger | Speaker(s): Iain Dale Date: 2011-05-30 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 32, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: Monday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 26th May 2011 | David Cameron’s Education Revolution | Speaker(s): Sajid Javid Date: 2011-05-26 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O�Connell Street, Sydney Time: Thursday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 24th May 2011 | Communism & the Labour Movement during the Cold War | Speaker(s): Bob Carr|Mark Aarons Date: 2011-05-24 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 18th May 2011 | Remembering Stanley Melbourne Bruce | Speaker(s): Ann Moyal|David Lee Date: 2011-05-18 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: Wednesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 17th May 2011 | My School: Parents, Pupils and the Public Interest | Speaker(s): Helen Proctor|Maralyn Parker Date: 2011-05-17 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 10th May 2011 | Australians Behaving Badly | Speaker(s): Ita Buttrose Date: 2011-05-10 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 3rd May 2011 | Australia’s Colonial Experience in New Guinea Between the Wars | [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS] Speaker(s): Michael Waterhouse Date: 2011-05-03 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 20th Apr 2011 | Kapyong: The Forgotten Battle of the Forgotten War (Korea) [NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE] | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Cameron Forbes|John Lewis Date: 2011-04-20 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: Wednesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 15th Apr 2011 | A Future Fair for All – School Funding in Australia | Speaker(s): Annual Dinner|Julia Gillard Date: 2011-04-15 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61 Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | |
| 6th Apr 2011 | Liberalism and the Simplification of Government | Speaker(s): Greg Hunt Date: 2011-04-06 Venue: Maddocks, Level 21 Angel Place, 123 Pitt Street, Sydney Time: Wednesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 5th Apr 2011 | Facing the Dragon: Meeting Life’s Challenges Head On | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Elizabeth Lancaster|Joanne Jones Date: 2011-04-05 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 22nd Mar 2011 | John Curtin and Great Britain | Speaker(s): James Curran Date: 2011-03-22 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 15th Mar 2011 | Politics & Language: Political Abuse and the Web | Speaker(s): Bernard Keane|Shelley Gare|Tom Switzer Date: 2011-03-15 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.00 for 5.30pm | |
| 9th Mar 2011 | In Defence of Opportunity | Speaker(s): Joe Hockey Date: 2011-03-09 Venue: Gilbert &Tobin, Citigroup Tower, Level 37, 2 Park Street (between George & Pitt Street), Sydney Time: Wednesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 2nd Mar 2011 | Social Entrepreneurs and the ‘Big Society’ – the future of the social economy in the UK | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Alastair Wilson Date: 2011-03-02 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: Wednesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 23rd Feb 2011 | The Ten Desires that Drive Us | Speaker(s): Hugh Mackay Date: 2011-02-23 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: Wednesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 21st Feb 2011 | Security in a Dangerous World | Speaker(s): John Spellar Date: 2011-02-21 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: Monday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 16th Feb 2011 | Multiculturalism in the Australian Context | Speaker(s): Chris Bowen Date: 2011-02-16 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: Wednesday 5.30 for 6pm | |
| 15th Feb 2011 | White Savages?: Sketches of Colonial Life and Manners | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Penny Russell Date: 2011-02-15 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: Tuesday 5.30 pm for 6 pm | |
| 9th Feb 2011 | China and Liu Xiaobo’s 2010 Nobel Peace Prize | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Chin Jin|Wu’er Kaixi Date: 2011-02-09 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: Wednesday 5.30 pm for 6 pm | |
| 8th Feb 2011 | In Search of Sydney | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Delia Falconer Date: 2011-02-08 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: Tuesday 5.30 pm for 6 pm | |
| 27th Jan 2011 | Wikileaks – a Discussion | Speaker(s): Gerard Henderson|Janet Albrechtsen|Richard Ackland|Wendy Bacon Date: 2011-01-27 Venue: Clayton Utz, Level 34, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney [PLEASE NOTE THIS CHANGE] Time: Thursday 5.00 pm for 5.30 pm [PLEASE NOTE … | |
| Book Launch of From Migrant to Citizen | Speaker(s): Christina Slade|Martina Mollering Date: 2010-12-16 Venue: 41 Phillip Street (between Bent and Bridge Street), Sydney Time: 12.15 pm for 12.45 pm | ||
| Election 2010 and Beyond | Speaker(s): George Megalogenis Date: 2010-12-15 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 31, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Death or Liberty: Rebels and Radicals Transported to Australia 1788-1868 | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Tony Moore Date: 2010-12-14 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Minority Government – Canada and Australia | NOTE TIME Speaker(s): Anne Twomey|Jeffrey Simpson Date: 2010-11-18 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 34, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 5:30pm (arrive at 5:00pm) | ||
| Afghanistan Today | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Malalai Joya Date: 2010-11-17 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| “Poor Old Pinko Conservative, Half-arsed political puritan, Crypto-fascist”: Barry Humphries and the Politics of Satire | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Anne Pender Date: 2010-11-16 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Georgia In 2010: Afghanistan, Georgian Foreign Policy & Trade and Investment | Speaker(s): Alexander Nalbandov Date: 2010-11-15 Venue: To be advised Time: 12:45pm (arrive at 12:30pm) | ||
| Campaign Diary of a Faceless Man | Speaker(s): Paul Howes Date: 2010-11-11 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Saying the Unsayable: reactions to grief in modern Australia | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Maggie Mackellar Date: 2010-11-09 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Book Launch of Lazarus Rising: The Howard Memoirs | Speaker(s): John Howard Date: 2010-11-04 Venue: To be advised Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Growing the NSW Economy: Why Honesty is the Best Policy | ASSOCIATES AND ONE GUEST ONLY Speaker(s): Barry O’Farrell Date: 2010-10-27 Venue: Gilbert &Tobin, Citigroup Tower, Level 37, 2 Park Street (between George & Pitt Street) Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Lillian Roxon and the counterculture – an Australian writer’s legacy | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Robert Milliken Date: 2010-10-26 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Kevin Rudd & Malcolm Turnbull: Party Thieves – The Real Story Behind the 2010 Election | NOTE DAY-TIME FUNCTION Speaker(s): Barrie Cassidy Date: 2010-10-20 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 12:45pm (arrive at 12:30pm) | ||
| Power Crisis – NSW Labor | <CHANGE OF VENUE Speaker(s): Rodney Cavalier Date: 2010-10-19 Venue: Gilbert & Tobin, Citigroup Tower, Level 37, 2 Park Street (between George & Pitt Street) Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Privilege of Making a Difference | Speaker(s): Caroline Cox Date: 2010-10-12 Venue: Gilbert &Tobin, Citigroup Tower, Level 37, 2 Park Street (between George & Pitt Street), Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Importance of Being Us | Speaker(s): Scott Morrison Date: 2010-10-06 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Man’s Best Friend | Speaker(s): Bettina Arndt Date: 2010-10-05 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The US and Australia – Taking Note of Conservatives | NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE Speaker(s): Mary Kissel Date: 2010-09-28 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Moving Forward – Where To? | EARLY START Speaker(s): Glenn Milne|Margot Saville|Simon Benson Date: 2010-09-16 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5:30pm (arrive at 5:00pm) | ||
| Iran: What’s Happening? | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS and ASSOCIATES AND ONE GUEST ONLY Speaker(s): David Menashri Date: 2010-09-15 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Politics in Britain and the US: The Cameron/Clegg and Obama governments | Speaker(s): William Shawcross Date: 2010-09-09 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| A Portrait of Leadership | Speaker(s): Blanche D’Alpuget Date: 2010-09-07 Venue: Gilbert &Tobin, Citigroup Tower, Level 37, 2 Park Street (between George & Pitt Street), Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Mary MacKillop – A View from Rome | Light Refreshments *Note this function will also launch Anne Henderson’s Mary MacKillop’s Sisters: A Life Unveiled – canonisation year updated edition Speaker(s): Anne Henderson|Tim Fischer Date: 2010-09-02 Venue: Corrs Chambers … | ||
| Labor’s Economic Plan and the Stability and Prosperity Australians Deserve | ASSOCIATES AND ONE GUEST ONLY</u Speaker(s): Wayne Swan Date: 2010-09-02 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| What’s wrong with microeconomic reform today? | Speaker(s): Fred Hilmer Date: 2010-08-31 Venue: Gilbert &Tobin, Citigroup Tower, Level 37, 2 Park Street (between George & Pitt Street), Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Federal Election Campaign – What Happened? | Speaker(s): Claire Harvey|Paul Kelly|Peter Hartcher Date: 2010-08-24 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Timor 1942 – Australia’s Special Commando Campaign | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Paul Cleary Date: 2010-08-17 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney 2000 Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Rudd Prime Ministership | Speaker(s): David Marr|Nicholas Stuart Date: 2010-08-10 Venue: Gilbert &Tobin, Citigroup Tower, Level 37, 2 Park Street (between George & Pitt Street), Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Board Representation: Balancing the Gender Mix | Speaker(s): David Gonski|Elizabeth Broderick Date: 2010-08-05 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Trouble: the art of sticking your head above the parapet | Speaker(s): Kate Jennings|Shelley Gare Date: 2010-08-03 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Social Policy under the Coalition | – PLEASE NOTE: $15 for members and $25 for non-members – Speaker(s): Tony Abbott Date: 2010-07-27 Venue: To be Advised Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Inside Story of the Rudd Government’s First Term | Speaker(s): David Uren|Lenore Taylor Date: 2010-07-20 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| 90 Not Out: The Nationals 1920-2010 | Speaker(s): Fiona Nash|Paul Davey Date: 2010-07-15 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Armistice Now: An Interim Agreement for Israel and Palestine | [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS] Speaker(s): Ehud Ya’ari Date: 2010-07-14 Venue: 41 Phillip St, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The future of disability in Australia: winning the battle for equal treatment | Speaker(s): Bill Shorten Date: 2010-07-13 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Remembering Pamela Travers: Creator of Mary Poppins | [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS] Speaker(s): Valerie Lawson Date: 2010-07-06 Venue: 41 Phillip St, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Waiting City – Making Australian Movies in India | Speaker(s): Claire McCarthy Date: 2010-06-29 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| From Little Things Big Things Grow | Speaker(s): Nicola Roxon Date: 2010-06-28 Venue: PricewaterhouseCoopers Tower, L10 Sydney Room, Darling Harbour, 201 Sussex Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Mining, the Super Profits Tax and the Australian Economy | Speaker(s): George Megalogenis|Jennifer Hewett Date: 2010-06-22 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Treason on the Radio: The British John Amery, Australian Charles Cousens and American “Tokyo Rose” Iva Toguri | [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS] [NOTE CHANGE OF DATE] Speaker(s): Judith Keene Date: 2010-06-15 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Alan Reid and the 36 Faceless Men | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Stephen Holt Date: 2010-06-09 Venue: 41 Phillip St, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Dealing with Debt and Rebuilding Resilience | Speaker(s): Andrew Robb Date: 2010-06-02 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| My Life in Italy: Tales about Shirley Hazard, Peter Robb, Morris West, Doris Lessing and others | [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS] Speaker(s): Desmond O’Grady Date: 2010-05-25 Venue: 41 Phillip St, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Nationhood Before Gough Whitlam: Australia in the 1960s | [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS] Speaker(s): James Curran|Stuart Ward Date: 2010-05-18 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Did Australia Fight Other Peoples’ Wars? Australia and the World Crisis: 1914-1923 | [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS] Speaker(s): Neville Meaney Date: 2010-05-11 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australia Without A Charter of Rights – Two Views | Speaker(s): Margaret Kelly|Susan Ryan Date: 2010-05-04 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| In Depth Working Lives | Speaker(s): Jana Wendt Date: 2010-04-28 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Robert Hughes – The Australian Years | [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS] Speaker(s): Patricia Anderson Date: 2010-04-27 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Revisiting Gallipoli | [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS] Speaker(s): Janda Gooding Date: 2010-04-20 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Reform Unleashes Transformation | Speaker(s): Stephen Conroy Date: 2010-04-12 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Why Productivity Growth Needs Competition | Speaker(s): Date: 2010-04-07 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Irregular Migration – The Global Challenge | Speaker(s): Chris Evans Date: 2010-03-24 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Obama and America | Professor Simon Schama, born in London to second generation immigrant Jewish parents, has written and presented more than 30 documentaries on art and history for the BBC. His 15-part BBC … | ||
| Modern Girls and Anorexia | [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS] Speaker(s): Lucy Howard-Taylor Date: 2010-03-09 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Why Australia should sell Uranium to India | [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS] Speaker(s): Lavina Lee Date: 2010-03-03 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| A New Age of Energy | Speaker(s): Martin Ferguson Date: 2010-03-01 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Mining Booms and the Australian Economy | Speaker(s): Ric Battellino Date: 2010-02-23 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Older and Wiser – Remembering Frank Devine | Speaker(s): Miranda Devine Date: 2010-02-16 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Progressive Conservatism in Contemporary Britain | Speaker(s): Jonty Olliff-Cooper Date: 2010-02-15 Venue: Gilbert & Tobin, Citigroup Tower, Level 37, 2 Park Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Book Launch of My Name is Ross: An Alcoholic’s Journey | Speaker(s): Gerard Henderson|Ross Fitzgerald Date: 2010-02-02 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Bad Language | PLEASE NOTE EARLY START Speaker(s): David Malouf|Don Watson|Sue Butler Date: 2010-01-27 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5:30pm (arrive at 5:00pm) | ||
| Pakistan Today | [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS] Speaker(s): Embesat Khan Date: 2010-01-21 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Practical Environmentalism | Speaker(s): Tony Abbott Date: 2010-01-14 Venue: Perth Room, Sofitel Sydney Wentworth, 61-101 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| ‘Dial-in democracy’? Forty years of talkback, from Andrea to Kyle | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS + Change of Date Speaker(s): Bridget Griffen-Foley Date: 2009-12-02 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Nuclear Echo post-Copenhagen | Speaker(s): Ziggy Switkowski Date: 2009-12-01 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Early Australia: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Andrew Tink|Kirsten McKenzie Date: 2009-11-17 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Unfettered Free Market Bad, Public Interest Good? Why hasn’t the global meltdown led to a resurgence of left of centre politics across the world? | Speaker(s): David Blunkett Date: 2009-11-10 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| In Defence of God | Associates Only Speaker(s): Joe Hockey Date: 2009-11-09 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Changes in Radical Islam | Speaker(s): Daniel Pipes|Ida Lichter Date: 2009-11-05 Venue: 41 Phillip St, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| From Collins to Force 2030 – The Challenge of the Future Submarine | Speaker(s): Greg Combet Date: 2009-11-04 Venue: Gilbert & Tobin, Citigroup Tower, Level 37, 2 Park Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Writing Readable History | [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS] Speaker(s): Ann McGrath Date: 2009-10-28 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Angels of Aceh – Australian Aid Abroad | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Sophie York Date: 2009-10-13 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Angel of Death – and The Elderly | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Susan Varga Date: 2009-10-06 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Not Now-Then: The Australian Army in the 21st Century | Speaker(s): Ken Gillespie Date: 2009-09-30 Venue: KPMG Auditorium, KPMG Tower, Ground Floor, 7-11 Sussex Street (between Margaret Street and Erskine Street, Sydney) Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Poland and Russia | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Adam Rotfeld Date: 2009-09-28 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Communicating Climate Science | CHANGE OF VENUE Speaker(s): Andy Pitman Date: 2009-09-23 Venue: Gilbert & Tobin, Citigroup Tower, Level 37, 2 Park Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| In Trouble Again: The Perils of Memoir | [LIGHT REFRESHMENTS] Speaker(s): Gabrielle Carey Date: 2009-09-16 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Accumulating Poverty: Women’s Experiences of Inequality Over the Life-cycle | Speaker(s): Elizabeth Broderick Date: 2009-09-15 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The March of the Patriots | NOTE CHANGE OF DATE Speaker(s): Paul Kelly Date: 2009-09-09 Venue: Gilbert & Tobin, Citigroup Tower, Level 37, 2 Park Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Over the Nullarbor and Over the Horizon | Speaker(s): Colin Barnett Date: 2009-09-03 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Address To The Sydney Institute | Speaker(s): Annual Dinner|Quentin Bryce Date: 2009-09-01 Venue: Time: | ||
| What’s Happening to Retail | Speaker(s): Margy Osmond Date: 2009-08-25 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Energy Policy for Australia | Speaker(s): Paul Howes Date: 2009-08-18 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| What’s Right? – Liberalism and Conservatism Inside the Liberal Party | Associate Members Only Speaker(s): Tony Abbott Date: 2009-08-12 Venue: Metcalfe Auditorium, State Library of NSW, Macquarie Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Triumph of Trade Liberalisation over Protectionism | Speaker(s): Simon Crean Date: 2009-08-05 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Islamic State in Crisis – A Look at Pakistan and Iran | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Tanveer Ahmed Date: 2009-07-28 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Searching for the lost mother – the painting and the person | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Anne Summers Date: 2009-07-21 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Internet: Australia’s Role and Opportunities | Speaker(s): Paul Twomey Date: 2009-07-20 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Creatures Of The Liberal Party | Speaker(s): Annabel Crabb Date: 2009-07-14 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| A Progress Report on the National Human Rights Consultation | Speaker(s): Frank Brennan|Helen Irving Date: 2009-07-07 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australian Banks: Sinners or Saints? | Speaker(s): Joseph Healy Date: 2009-07-01 Venue: NAB House, Level 28, 255 George Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Climate Change – Two Views | [NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE] Speaker(s): Ian Dunlop|Ray Evans Date: 2009-06-30 Venue: Metcalfe Auditorium, State Library NSW, Macquarie Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Theology of Climate Change | Speaker(s): Ian Plimer Date: 2009-06-23 Venue: State Parliament House Theatrette, Macquarie Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Wrong Answer to the Wrong Question: The Charter of Rights and Abuses of Overcentralised Power | Speaker(s): John Hatzistergos Date: 2009-06-22 Venue: Minter Ellison, Level 19, 88 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Reflections on the Global Financial Crisis | Speaker(s): David Gruen Date: 2009-06-16 Venue: KPMG Auditorium, KPMG Tower, Ground Floor, 7-11 Sussex Street (between Margaret Street and Erskine Street), Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Telecommunications: The Way Forward | Speaker(s): Henry Ergas|Paul Fletcher Date: 2009-06-10 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Addressing the Challenges of an Ageing Australia | Speaker(s): Jenny Macklin Date: 2009-06-03 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 32, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Marriage, Melbourne and the Middle Class | Speaker(s): Kate Legge Date: 2009-06-02 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| John Stuart Mill For Today | Speaker(s): Helen Pringle Date: 2009-05-26 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Aspects of the Defence White Paper | Speaker(s): Joel Fitzgibbon Date: 2009-05-21 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Financing International Terrorism | Speaker(s): Matthew Levitt Date: 2009-05-20 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Arab Culture and Modernity | Light Refreshments Speaker(s): Tarek Heggy Date: 2009-05-19 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Renovation Nation: our obsession with home | Light Refreshments Speaker(s): Fiona Allon Date: 2009-05-13 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Living with David Williamson | Speaker(s): Kristin Williamson Date: 2009-05-12 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Politics of Desire | Speaker(s): Bettina Arndt Date: 2009-04-28 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Vietnam and China: The Spratly and Paracel Islands Dispute | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Nguyen Van Canh Date: 2009-04-20 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Greenspan, Bush and Obama: Who’s responsible for the Global Financial Crisis | Speaker(s): Peter Hartcher Date: 2009-04-15 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Getting it Right in the Early Years | Speaker(s): Maxine McKew Date: 2009-04-07 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Magic Pudding Economics – The Economy Under Labor | Speaker(s): Helen Coonan Date: 2009-03-31 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Teaching History – Two Views | Speaker(s): Anna Clark|Mark Lopez Date: 2009-03-24 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| A Future of Promise | Speaker(s): Wayne Swan Date: 2009-03-23 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Public housing – public good or good for nothing? | Speaker(s): Tanya Plibersek Date: 2009-03-19 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Remembering Jack Fingleton | NOTE CHANGE OF DATE & LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Greg Growden Date: 2009-03-17 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Restoring Good Governance | Speaker(s): Barry O’Farrell Date: 2009-03-12 Venue: NSW State Parliament House Theatrette, Macquarie Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Clifton Pugh: Art and Politics in the 1970s | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Judith Pugh Date: 2009-03-10 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Journeys from Vietnam | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Dai Le|Quang Luu Date: 2009-03-03 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Freedom and Prosperity : The Liberal Party’s Legacy | Speaker(s): Julie Bishop Date: 2009-03-02 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| E-Campaigning in the Democratic Party | Speaker(s): Joe Trippi Date: 2009-02-24 Venue: Minter Ellison, Level 19, 88 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| A Resilient Australia | Speaker(s): Julia Gillard Date: 2009-02-19 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Indigenous Affairs – A New Conversation | Speaker(s): Marcia Langton|Warren Mundine Date: 2009-02-10 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Beyond the Wire – Refugee Advocacy in Australia | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Margot O’Neill Date: 2009-02-03 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The World Financial Crisis: How Did It Happen? | NOTE EARLY START Speaker(s): Mark Johnson|Timo Henckel Date: 2009-01-28 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5:30pm (arrive at 5:00pm) | ||
| The Netherlands, Australia and the World | NOTE EARLY AFTERNOON FUNCTION Speaker(s): Maxime Verhagen Date: 2009-01-20 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 1:00pm (arrive at 12:30pm) | ||
| The Foreign Policy of the New American Administration | PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE AND CHANGE OF VENUE Speaker(s): John Rielly Date: 2008-12-16 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Once Were Westies | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Gabrielle Gwyther Date: 2008-12-03 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Joseph Lyons: Two Views | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Anne Henderson|David Bird Date: 2008-11-25 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| American Journeys: After the Election | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS & NOTE CHANGE OF DATE Speaker(s): Don Watson Date: 2008-11-20 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Reclaiming Liberalism for the Left: Social Justice in the 21st Century | Speaker(s): Chris Bowen Date: 2008-11-18 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| John Monash – Two Views | Speaker(s): Jeffrey Grey|Tim Fischer Date: 2008-11-11 Venue: Minter Ellison, Level 19, 88 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Broken Glass, Shattered Lives: The Relevance of the Reichskristallnacht Today | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Michael Abrahams-Sprod Date: 2008-11-10 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Women and Men: A New Conversation about Equality | PLEASE NOTE EARLY START Speaker(s): Tanya Plibersek Date: 2008-11-06 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Philip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5:30pm (arrive at 5:00pm) | ||
| Andrew Fisher and “The Australian Spirit” | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): David Day Date: 2008-11-05 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Skullduggery in Early Sydney: Australia’s Biggest Bank Robbery | NOTE: CHANGE OF DATE, LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Carol Baxter Date: 2008-10-29 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Greens, Balance of Power, and Australia’s Emissions Trading Plans | Speaker(s): Christine Milne Date: 2008-10-27 Venue: Minter Ellison, Level 19, 88 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Welfare Reform | NOTE CHANGE OF DATE Speaker(s): Jenny Macklin Date: 2008-10-21 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Ezra Norton – His Life and Times | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Sandra Hall Date: 2008-10-20 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Public Good, Public Companies, and the Future of Print Media and Quality Journalism | Speaker(s): David Kirk Date: 2008-10-14 Venue: To be advised Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| History and the Judicial System | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Ann Genovese Date: 2008-10-07 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Costello Memoirs | Speaker(s): Peter Coleman|Peter Costello Date: 2008-10-01 Venue: State Parliament House Theatrette, Macquarie Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| National Leadership in Infrastructure and Transport Reform | Speaker(s): Anthony Albanese Date: 2008-09-10 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Over-achieving and Self-loathing in Corporate Australia | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Lisa Pryor Date: 2008-09-08 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Spy Fiction : Then and Now | Please Note Change of Date Speaker(s): Bob Carr|Paul O’Sullivan Date: 2008-09-04 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Multicultural Society, Monocultural Media: SBS – more special than ever | Speaker(s): Shaun Brown Date: 2008-09-01 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Economy, Carbon Emissions, & Business – An | Speaker(s): Greig Gailey Date: 2008-08-27 Venue: Minter Ellison, Level 19, 88 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| A New Era of Engagement with the World | Speaker(s): Stephen Smith Date: 2008-08-19 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Scottish Settlement and Australia | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Malcolm Prentis Date: 2008-08-06 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| National legal reform to meet the economic challenges of the 21st century | Speaker(s): Robert McClelland Date: 2008-07-30 Venue: Minter Ellison, Level 19, 88 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Pakistan – The Current Political Scene | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Wajiha Ahmed Date: 2008-07-29 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Coal and Climate Change – How We Can Have Our Cake and Eat it too | Speaker(s): Nikki Williams Date: 2008-07-23 Venue: Museum of Sydney Theatrette, Corner of Phillip & Bridge Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Democratic objections to bills of rights | Please Note Change of Date Speaker(s): Hilary Charlesworth Date: 2008-07-21 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| A Political Dynasty: The Anthonys in Australia | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Paul Davey Date: 2008-07-08 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| United States Government Nonproliferation Priorities and Asia | Speaker(s): Patricia McNerney Date: 2008-07-01 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Web and the next US President – political movements in the Internet Age | Speaker(s): Matt Bai Date: 2008-06-23 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell St, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Sydney Book Launch of Enid Lyons: Leading Lady to a Nation | Speaker(s): Anne Henderson|Malcolm Turnbull Date: 2008-06-20 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 12:30pm (arrive at 12:00pm) | ||
| Notes from New York – In an Election Year | Speaker(s): Kate Jennings Date: 2008-06-17 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Prosperity & Fairness in a Market Democracy | Speaker(s): Craig Emerson Date: 2008-06-12 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Northern Territory Emergency Response: A Reflection | Speaker(s): Sue Gordon Date: 2008-06-10 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Phnom Penh: Yesterday and Today | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Milton Osborne Date: 2008-06-03 Venue: 41 Phillip St Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| No Fatal Shore – Re-envisaging Australian History | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Babette Smith Date: 2008-05-27 Venue: 41 Phillip St Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Porn Report: The Good News and the Bad News | Speaker(s): Catharine Lumby Date: 2008-05-20 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| India’s Century | Speaker(s): Kamal Nath Date: 2008-05-19 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61 Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Why Constitutions Matter to Women | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Helen Irving Date: 2008-05-14 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Broadband and the Digital Economy | Speaker(s): Stephen Conroy Date: 2008-05-06 Venue: “The Forum” Level 23, Westpac Banking Corporation, Westpac Place, 275 Kent Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The World’s Response to the Armenian Genocide | Speaker(s): Peter Balakian Date: 2008-04-21 Venue: Museum of Sydney Theatrette, Corner of Bridge & Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Setting our Nation’s Sights for the Future | Speaker(s): Annual Dinner|Kevin Rudd Date: 2008-04-17 Venue: Time: | ||
| Chasing Ishmael – Truth, racism, blockbuster publishing and the US media | Speaker(s): Shelley Gare Date: 2008-04-15 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| A Charter of rights or a Charter of Wrongs? | Speaker(s): John Hatzistergos Date: 2008-04-10 Venue: NSW State Parliament House Theatrette, Macquarie Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Growing Old (Dis)gracefully | EARLY START Speaker(s): Gerry Connolly|Margaret Fink|Ross Fitzgerald Date: 2008-04-09 Venue: Clayton Utz Boardroom, Level 35, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 5:30pm (arrive at 5:00pm) | ||
| Reforming the ABC – It’s not Just About Money | PLEASE NOTE EARLY START Speaker(s): Doug Kirsner|Pru Goward|Tony Moore Date: 2008-04-01 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5:30pm (arrive at 5:00pm) | ||
| Uranium sales to India: A strategic imperative | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Andrew Robb Date: 2008-03-31 Venue: 41 Phillip St, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Taxation and Climate Change | Speaker(s): Malcolm Turnbull Date: 2008-03-26 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| East Timor: What’s Wrong | Speaker(s): Frank Brennan|Paul Cleary Date: 2008-03-18 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Early Colonial Society: Bligh and Wentworth | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Penelope Nelson|Peter Cochrane Date: 2008-03-11 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Estonia: From Soviet occupation to e-government in the European Union | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Ene Ergma Date: 2008-03-10 Venue: 41 Phillip Street Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Liberals and the Future: Three perspectives | EARLY START Speaker(s): Christopher Pyne|Kevin Andrews|Marise Payne Date: 2008-03-04 Venue: Parliament House Theatrette, State Parliament House, Macquarie Street, Sydney Time: 5:30pm (arrive at 5:00pm) | ||
| Business de-regulation | Speaker(s): Lindsay Tanner Date: 2008-02-26 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Trials and Tribulations of Life in Israel | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Herb Keinon Date: 2008-02-18 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Weather Report | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): David Day|Elly Spark Date: 2008-02-12 Venue: 41 Phillip Street Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Politics: Post the Howard Governenment | NOTE EARLY START Speaker(s): Annabel Crabb|Arthur Sinodinos|George Megalogenis Date: 2008-02-05 Venue: Clayton Utz Boardroom, Level 34, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 5:30pm (arrive at 5:00pm) | ||
| Terrorism: Policing’s New Paradigm | Speaker(s): Mick Keelty Date: 2008-01-29 Venue: State Parliament Theatrette, Macquarie Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Reflections on a Life in the Economic Fast Lane | Speaker(s): David Morgan Date: 2008-01-22 Venue: 275 Kent Street, Sydney “The Forum” Level 23, Westpac Banking Corporation, Westpac Place, Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Central Bank Communication | Speaker(s): Glenn Stevens Date: 2007-12-11 Venue: Dixson Room, State Library Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| China’s Economic Problems: Implications for China’s foreign policy | Light Refreshments Speaker(s): Harry Gelber Date: 2007-12-03 Venue: 41 Phillip Street Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Iranian Time-Bomb | Speaker(s): Michael Ledeen Date: 2007-11-27 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Meeting the Good, the Great and the Formidable | Speaker(s): Jana Wendt Date: 2007-11-21 Venue: Clayton Utz Conference Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Chinese “Soft Power” – Diplomacy and The Confucius Institutes | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Jocelyn Chey Date: 2007-11-19 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Australian Dictionary of Biography: A National Asset | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Diane Langmore Date: 2007-11-13 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Managing Reputation | Speaker(s): Norman Lucas|Peter Keel Date: 2007-11-07 Venue: Clayton Utz Boardroom, Level 34, 1 O’Connel Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| God & Caesar | Speaker(s): George Pell Date: 2007-10-29 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Who Profits From the Arts? | Speaker(s): David Adair|Kay Ferres Date: 2007-10-23 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The United States in the Asia Pacific | LUNCH TIME ADDRESS Speaker(s): Christopher Hill Date: 2007-10-16 Venue: Museum of Sydney Theatrette, Corner of Bridge and Phillip Streets, Sydney Time: 12:30pm (arrive at 12:30pm) | ||
| Sonia, Tammie and Janette- Life with the Prime Minister | Speaker(s): Susan Mitchell Date: 2007-10-16 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| A Constitutional Amendment for Indiginous Australians | Speaker(s): John Howard Date: 2007-10-11 Venue: Sofitel Wentworth Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Clash of Economic Liberalism and Social Conservatism | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Steve Fielding Date: 2007-10-10 Venue: 41 Phillip St, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Democracy and Local Government – The Queensland Experiment | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Scott Prasser Date: 2007-10-02 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Bringing Depression to Heel | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Gordon Parker|Tessa Wigney Date: 2007-09-25 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Contemporary Australia: Two Views | Speaker(s): Hugh Mackay|Sol Lebovic Date: 2007-09-24 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney. Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Allied or Addicted? Two Views | Speaker(s): Alan Dupont|Alison Broinowski Date: 2007-09-19 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Mum, Dad and International Relations | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Kim Huynh Date: 2007-08-28 Venue: 41 Phillip St, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Heroic Leaders: Who they are: what they know, how they live | Speaker(s): Chris Lowney Date: 2007-08-22 Venue: Minter Ellison, Level 19, 88 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Good Fight: Why in the United States, only left-liberals can win the war on terror | Speaker(s): Peter Beinart Date: 2007-08-21 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governer Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The US And Australia | Speaker(s): Dennis Richardson Date: 2007-08-20 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Role of Israel’s Supreme Court | Speaker(s): Salim Joubran Date: 2007-08-15 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Australian Financial Sector: A Story of Growth | Speaker(s): Edna Carew|Jim Bain Date: 2007-08-14 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governer Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| John Howard | Light Refreshments Speaker(s): Peter Van Onselen Date: 2007-08-07 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Citizenship – committing to a way of life | Speaker(s): Kevin Andrews Date: 2007-07-31 Venue: Minter Ellison, Level 19, 88 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Kevin Rudd | Light Refreshments Speaker(s): Nicholas Stuart Date: 2007-07-24 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Fresh Ideas for the Future Economy: Confronting the Challenges of Workforce Participation, The Cost of Living and Childcare | Speaker(s): Kevin Rudd Date: 2007-07-18 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Whose School is it Anyway? | PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE Speaker(s): Joanna Mendelssohn Date: 2007-07-16 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Economics of Social Inclusion | ASSOCIATE MEMBERS ONLY Speaker(s): Julia Gillard Date: 2007-07-12 Venue: To be advised Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Remembering Heinz and Ruth Arndt | Please note change of date Speaker(s): Bettina Arndt Date: 2007-07-09 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Labor’s Broadband Policy | Speaker(s): Stephen Conroy Date: 2007-07-03 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| European Union Policy: Myth or Reality? | Speaker(s): Benita Ferrero-Waldner Date: 2007-06-26 Venue: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 32, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Little Children Are Sacred | Speaker(s): John Howard Date: 2007-06-25 Venue: Sofitel Wentworth Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Sadness Epidemic and the Slandering of Freedom | Speaker(s): Cassandra Wilkinson Date: 2007-06-19 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Does the Left Need a Sense of Humour? Satire and Politics Down Under | Speaker(s): Tony Moore Date: 2007-06-12 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| In Defence of Politics | Speaker(s): Tony Abbott Date: 2007-06-05 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| An Alternative to “The God Delusion” Views of Richard Dawkins | Speaker(s): Margaret Somerville Date: 2007-06-04 Venue: Museum of Sydney Theatrette, Corner of Bridge and Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Detainee 002: The Case of David Hicks | NOTE: CHANGE OF DATE Speaker(s): Leigh Sales Date: 2007-05-29 Venue: Museum of Sydney Theatrette, Corner of Bridge and Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The 1967 Referendum… Four Decades Later | Speaker(s): Jackie Huggins Date: 2007-05-22 Venue: Minter Ellison, Level 19, 88 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The World is Still Flat | Speaker(s): Annual Dinner|Thomas Friedman Date: 2007-05-09 Venue: Time: | ||
| Preparing for A Pandemic | Speaker(s): Eric D. Hargan Date: 2007-04-30 Venue: Minter Ellison, Level 19, 88 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The AIF: As good as the Anzac legend says? | Speaker(s): Peter Pedersen Date: 2007-04-23 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Women and work | Speaker(s): Joe Hockey Date: 2007-04-16 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Fundamentalism and Literature | **NOTE EARLY START** Speaker(s): David Malouf|Ihab Hassan Date: 2007-04-11 Venue: Clayton Utz Conference Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 5:30pm (arrive at 5:00pm) | ||
| Labor’s Economic Agenda: Creating Wealth for the Common Good | Speaker(s): Wayne Swan Date: 2007-04-03 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Talking About Depression | Speaker(s): Maria Prendergast Date: 2007-03-27 Venue: 41 Phillip Street Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Life in the Suburbs- and the Inner City | Speaker(s): Andrew West|Judith Brett Date: 2007-03-22 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Current Issues in the United States/Australia Relationship | Speaker(s): Robert McCallum Jr Date: 2007-03-07 Venue: Clayton Utz Conference Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Bob Santamaria: Talking to the World | Speaker(s): Patrick Morgan Date: 2007-02-28 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Social Protest and Islam | Speaker(s): Nada Roude|Tanveer Ahmed Date: 2007-02-27 Venue: Museum of Sydney Theatrette, Corner Bridge and Phillips Streets, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Governing New South Wales: The Wran and Greiner Years | Speaker(s): Peta Seaton|Troy Bramston Date: 2007-02-21 Venue: 41 Phillip Street Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| International Terrorism: From Afghanistan to Australia | Speaker(s): Sally Neighbour Date: 2007-02-20 Venue: Dixson Room, State Library, Macquarie Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Teaching Today- Two Views | LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Carol Baxter|Kevin Donnelly Date: 2007-02-13 Venue: 41 Phillip St, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Fairfax Experience | Speaker(s): Fred Hilmer Date: 2007-02-06 Venue: Minter Ellison Function Room, Level 19, 88 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The ACCC and Current Issues: Mergers, Media and Telecommunications | Speaker(s): Graeme Samuel Date: 2007-01-30 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 60, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| A Mate for Head of State? – A Discussion | Speaker(s): David Smith|Helen Irving Date: 2007-01-24 Venue: Dixon Room, State Library, Macquarie Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Republican Party and the 2006 Congressional Election: What Happened? | Speaker(s): Rick O’Donnell Date: 2006-12-11 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 60 Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Margaret Whitlam: A Life | Speaker(s): Margaret Whitlam|Susan Mitchell Date: 2006-12-05 Venue: Metcalfe Auditorium, State Library NSW, Macquarie Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Triumph of the Airheads – Retreat from Commonsense | Speaker(s): Shelley Gare Date: 2006-11-29 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Love of Learning | Speaker(s): Lindsay Tanner Date: 2006-11-21 Venue: Minter Ellison Function Room, Level 19 / 88 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Conscience, Politics and the Law | Speaker(s): Bronwyn Bishop|Frank Brennan Date: 2006-11-20 Venue: Museum of Sydney Theatrette, Corner of Bridge & Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australian Immigration: Some Current Themes | Speaker(s): Andrew Metcalfe Date: 2006-11-16 Venue: Clayton Utz Conference Room (Level 30) 1, O’Connell St, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Islam in South East Asia | Speaker(s): Virginia Hooker Date: 2006-11-14 Venue: Museum of Sydney Theatrette, Corner of Bridge and Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Travelling Solo – Australia, the Law and Unaccompanied Refugee Children | Speaker(s): Mary Crock Date: 2006-11-08 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Prospering in Today’s Global Economy: Challenges for Open Economies such as Australia and Canada | Speaker(s): David Dodge Date: 2006-11-06 Venue: Clayton Utz Conference Room (Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Terrorism: Winning the Battle of Ideas | Speaker(s): Alexander Downer Date: 2006-11-01 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 60 Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Asia and the Pacific | Speaker(s): Christopher Hill Date: 2006-10-29 Venue: Museum of Sydney Theatrette, Cnr Bridge and Phillip Streets Time: 11:30am (arrive at 11:00am) | ||
| The Great Moral Panic- Children and TV | Speaker(s): Catharine Lumby Date: 2006-10-24 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The ABC’s Editorial Values | Speaker(s): Mark Scott Date: 2006-10-16 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 60, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| A Vision for New South Wales | Speaker(s): Peter Debnam Date: 2006-10-11 Venue: Clayton Utz Conference Room (Level 30), 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Militant Islam in Southeast Asia | Speaker(s): Zachary Abuza Date: 2006-10-09 Venue: Museum of Sydney Theatrette, Corner Bridge and Phillip Streets, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| From Journalism to Fiction – How Different is it? | Speaker(s): Kate Legge Date: 2006-10-04 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The US Prison System: Mass Incarceration | Speaker(s): Ernest Drucker Date: 2006-09-27 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Will Dyson: Australia’s Forgotten Genius | Speaker(s): Ross McMullin Date: 2006-09-21 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Future Directions in Australian Foreign Policy | Speaker(s): Kevin Rudd Date: 2006-09-19 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 60, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Inside Story of the US-Australia Relationship | Speaker(s): Greg Sheridan Date: 2006-09-12 Venue: Museum of Sydney Theatrette, Corner Bridge and Phillip Streets, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| James McAuley: Two Views | Speaker(s): Leonie Kramer|Peter Coleman Date: 2006-09-05 Venue: Clayton Utz Conference Room (Level 30), 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Foucault and Post Modernism | Speaker(s): Clare O’Farrell Date: 2006-08-29 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Water – From Ancient Rome to Centennial Park | Speaker(s): Malcolm Turnbull Date: 2006-08-28 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 60, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| A Global Economy Needs Unions | Speaker(s): Sharan Burrow Date: 2006-08-15 Venue: Clayton Utz Conference Room (Level 30), 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Responding to the New Backlash Against Democracy | Speaker(s): Carl Gershman Date: 2006-08-14 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Israel and the Palestinians: Where to Next? | Speaker(s): Isabel Kershner Date: 2006-08-02 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Leadership in the National Interest | Speaker(s): Kim Beazley Date: 2006-07-24 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Science and Innovation – Big Science, Big Picutre | Speaker(s): Julie Bishop Date: 2006-07-19 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 60, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Remembering Robert Menzies | Speaker(s): Malcolm Fraser Date: 2006-07-17 Venue: Museum of Sydney Theatrette, Corner of Phillip & Bridge Streets, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Nuclear Power – the Answer? | Speaker(s): Greg Hunt|Helen Caldicott Date: 2006-07-11 Venue: Metcalfe Auditorium, State Library of New South Wales, Macquarie Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Continuity and Change In the Pusuit of Australia’s National Interests | Speaker(s): Michael L’Estrange Date: 2006-07-06 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 60, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Can the West be Won Again? Labor and Sydney’s Western Suburbs | Speaker(s): David Burchell|Julie Owens Date: 2006-07-03 Venue: Dixson Room, State Library of New South Wales, Macquarie Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| In the Middle of the History Wars | Speaker(s): John Hirst Date: 2006-06-19 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Race Relations and Early Australian Settlement | Speaker(s): Cassandra Pybus Date: 2006-06-14 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| De-Coding the Da Vinci Code | Speaker(s): Elizabeth Fletcher Date: 2006-06-07 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran: The Challenges for Israel and the West | Speaker(s): Martin Kramer Date: 2006-06-06 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Reaching Reconciliation: A Journey for all Australians | Speaker(s): Mark Leibler Date: 2006-05-29 Venue: Museum of Sydney Theatrette, Corner of Phillip & Bridge Streets, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Civilizing Capital – Fairness for All | Speaker(s): Morris Iemma Date: 2006-05-25 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 60, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| 9/11: Five Years Later – Where To From Here? | Speaker(s): Paul O’Sullivan Date: 2006-05-04 Venue: Parliament House Theatrette, Macquarie Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Literary Cross-Dressing: Eastern Suburbs Boho Becomes Small-Time Hiphop-Loving Crim | Speaker(s): Linda Jaivin Date: 2006-05-03 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Integrating Australia: Past Successes, Future Challenges | Speaker(s): Andrew Robb Date: 2006-04-27 Venue: Clayton Utz Conference Room (Level 30), 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Not a Matter for Negotiation: Australia’s Commitment to Malaysia 1961 – 1966 | Speaker(s): Moreen Dee Date: 2006-04-18 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Prelude to the Aftermath – The Media and Celebrity | Speaker(s): Annual Dinner|Clive James Date: 2006-04-05 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| My Life as Comrade Roberts in the Mid 1940s | Speaker(s): Kenneth Gee Date: 2006-03-29 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Generation Y and Politics | Speaker(s): Rebecca Huntley Date: 2006-03-21 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Royal Tours in Australia | Speaker(s): Jane Connors Date: 2006-03-14 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Poland, the United States and Europe | Speaker(s): Marek Belka Date: 2006-03-09 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Courage, Convictions and the Community in the Next Ten Years | Speaker(s): Julia Gillard Date: 2006-03-07 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Howard Factor | Speaker(s): Caroline Overington|Glenn Milne Date: 2006-03-02 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| What is the Future for Australia’s Public Universities? | Speaker(s): Glyn Davis Date: 2006-02-28 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Worth Promoting, Worth Defending – Australian Citizenship | Speaker(s): Peter Costello Date: 2006-02-23 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Tibet – Is Peace Possible? | Speaker(s): Samdhong Rinpoche Date: 2006-02-16 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Jihadism: Where is it At in 2006? | Speaker(s): Steve Emerson Date: 2006-02-15 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Lie of China’s Rising Peace | Speaker(s): Wang Yi|Yu Jie Date: 2006-02-08 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| That was Then, This is Now | Speaker(s): Judy Lumby Date: 2006-02-07 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery: Insular, Intrusive, Indispensable? | Speaker(s): Margaret Simons|Matt Price|Steven Matchett Date: 2006-02-01 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Remembering Billy Hughes | Speaker(s): Aneurin Hughes Date: 2006-01-24 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Let’s Have One of Us, A Mate for Head of State | Speaker(s): John Bell|Kathy Bail Date: 2006-01-18 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Managing the Modern Public Service | Speaker(s): Peter Shergold Date: 2005-12-13 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room (Level 30), 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Modern Australia: Two Views | Speaker(s): Bob Catley|David McKnight Date: 2005-12-06 Venue: 41 Phillip St, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Pioneer Women- and the Stolen Generation | Speaker(s): Susanna De Vries Date: 2005-11-22 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Secret River- Secret History? | Speaker(s): Kate Grenville Date: 2005-11-15 Venue: Dixson Room, State Library of NSW, Macquarie Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Britain, Europe and America: After the Cold War | Speaker(s): Chris Patten Date: 2005-11-09 Venue: BT Training Room (Room 401), Level 4, Chifley Tower, 2 Chifley Square, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Whitlam Government, The Dismissal and all that: Four Views | Speaker(s): Ann Curthoys|David Smith|Ian Hancock|Michael Sexton Date: 2005-11-08 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room, Level 30, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Australian Army in the twenty-first century | Speaker(s): Peter Leahy Date: 2005-11-03 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The UN: Can It Work? | Speaker(s): Alison Broinowski Date: 2005-11-02 Venue: 41 Phillip St, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Israel’s Disingagement from Gaza: The Implications | Speaker(s): Eran Lerman Date: 2005-10-26 Venue: 41 Phillip St, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Islam and Australian Politics: Can a Muslim Get Elected to Parliament During a War on Terror? | Speaker(s): Ed Husic Date: 2005-10-19 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australia’s Soloman Island’s Commitment: How is it Faring? | Speaker(s): Elsina Wainwright Date: 2005-10-11 Venue: Museum of Sydney Theatrette, Corner of Bridge & Phillip Streets, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Norfolk Island- History and Mystery | Speaker(s): Tim Latham Date: 2005-10-11 Venue: 41 Phillip St, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Electoral Reform:The Howard Government’s Agenda | Speaker(s): Eric Abetz Date: 2005-10-04 Venue: 41 Phillip St, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Losing It: Labor In Opposition Before, During and After Mark Latham | Speaker(s): Annabel Crabb Date: 2005-09-29 Venue: 41 Phillip St, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Tax Reform: What Should be Done? | Speaker(s): Louise McBride Date: 2005-09-28 Venue: Metcalfe Auditorium, State Library of NSW, Macquarie Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Beyond the next election: Policy changes for Australia’s future workplace | Speaker(s): Bill Shorten Date: 2005-09-20 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 60, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| China: Friend of Foe? | Speaker(s): Harlan Ullman Date: 2005-09-15 Venue: BT Training Room (Room 401), Level 4, Chifley Tower, 2 Chifley Square, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Fate of Australia’s Returned Asylum Seekers | Speaker(s): David Corlett Date: 2005-09-13 Venue: Museum of Sydney Theatrette, Corner of Bridge & Phillip Streets, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| An Angel in the Court – Book Launch | Speaker(s): Joyce Harmer|Tony Abbott Date: 2005-09-09 Venue: Time: | ||
| Harold Holt: Why He Mattered | Speaker(s): Tom Frame Date: 2005-09-06 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Assets, Poverty and Public Policy | Speaker(s): Michael Sherraden Date: 2005-09-01 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room (Level 30), 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| A Beginner’s Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize | Speaker(s): Peter C Doherty Date: 2005-08-31 Venue: BT Training Room (Room 401), Level 4, Chifley Tower, 2 Chifley Square, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Future of the Brain | Speaker(s): Susan Greenfield Date: 2005-08-24 Venue: Clayton Utz Seminar Room (Level 30), 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Connect Australia – Future Proofing Australia | Speaker(s): Helen Coonan Date: 2005-08-22 Venue: BT Training Room (Room 401), Level 4, Chifley Tower, 2 Chifley Square, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| A nation at risk – Australia in the Fourth Year of a Long War | Speaker(s): Kim Beazley Date: 2005-08-04 Venue: Dixson Room, State Library of NSW, Macquarie Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Refugees and the UN | Speaker(s): Eileen Pittaway|Linda Bartolomei Date: 2005-07-26 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Writing About Mao | Speaker(s): Jon Halliday|Jung Chang Date: 2005-07-21 Venue: BT Training Room (Room 401), Level 4, Chifley Tower, 2 Chifley Square, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Workplace Relations Reform: The Next Logical Step | Speaker(s): John Howard Date: 2005-07-11 Venue: Time: | ||
| History on Trial – My Day in Court with David Irving | Speaker(s): Deborah Lipstadt Date: 2005-07-06 Venue: Dixson Room, State Library of NSW, Macquarie Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Task of Economic Policy | Speaker(s): Ken Henry Date: 2005-06-20 Venue: BT Training Room (Room 401), Level 4, Chifley Tower, 2 Chifley Square, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Islam and the West | Speaker(s): Geraldine Doogue|Samina Yasmeen Date: 2005-06-15 Venue: BT Training Room (Room 401), Level 4, Chifley Tower, 2 Chifley Square, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| White Australia: Two Views | Speaker(s): Gwenda Tavan|Keith Windschuttle Date: 2005-06-07 Venue: Museum of Sydney Theatrette, Corner of Phillip & Bridge Streets, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Rise and Fall of Monetary Targeting in Australia: From Phillip Lynch and John Howard to Paul Keating | Speaker(s): Simon Guttmann Date: 2005-06-07 Venue: Time: | ||
| Remembering Morris West | Speaker(s): Maryanne Confoy Date: 2005-05-24 Venue: Museum of Sydney Theaterette, Corner of Bridge and Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| From Army Officer to Writer of Fiction | Speaker(s): Yasmina Khadra Date: 2005-05-24 Venue: Grand Dixson Room, State Library of NSW, Macquarie Street, Sydney Time: 6:30pm (arrive at 6:00pm) | ||
| Motherguilt | Speaker(s): Ita Buttrose Date: 2005-04-26 Venue: Museum of Sydney Theatrette, Corner of Bridge and Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| From the End of the World: Thoughts About Artists and Ratbags Here and Abroad | Speaker(s): Annual Dinner|Richard Tognetti Date: 2005-04-17 Venue: Time: | ||
| Higher Education- the Challenge | Speaker(s): Brendan Nelson Date: 2005-04-14 Venue: Mallesons Conference Room, Level 60, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australia: After Kyoto | Speaker(s): Peter Garrett Date: 2005-04-06 Venue: BT Training Room (Room 401), Level 4, Chifley Tower, 2 Chifley Square, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Science of Bio-Terrorism: A UK Perspective | Speaker(s): Herbert Huppert Date: 2005-04-04 Venue: 41 Phillip St Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Remembering John Curtin | Speaker(s): John Edwards Date: 2005-03-29 Venue: Museum of Sydney Theaterette, Corner of Bridge St, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Early Australia in War and Peace: Chris Watson and Pompey Elliot | Speaker(s): Ross McMullin Date: 2005-03-22 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Muslims In Australia | Speaker(s): Nahid Kabir Date: 2005-03-15 Venue: Museum of Sydney Theatrette, Corner of Bridge & Phillip St, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australian Beach Culture – Puberty Blues Revisited | Speaker(s): Nell Schofield Date: 2005-03-07 Venue: Time: | ||
| An Australian Head of State: Where Are We At? | Speaker(s): Allison Henry Date: 2005-03-02 Venue: 41 Phillip St, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Elites: Who Are They Really | Speaker(s): Marion Sawer Date: 2005-02-22 Venue: Time: | ||
| Isolation and Depression in Pre-Rural Australia: The Story of Mary Cunningham | Speaker(s): Jennifer Horsfield Date: 2005-02-15 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The War on Terrorism: An Update | Speaker(s): Daniel Pipes Date: 2005-02-08 Venue: Dixson Room, State Library of New South Wales Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The pacific-ation of New Zealand | Speaker(s): Colin James Date: 2005-02-03 Venue: 41 Phillip St, Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Who Rules? How Government Retains Control of a Privatised Economy | Speaker(s): Michael Keating Date: 2005-02-01 Venue: Time: | ||
| Common Sense – in relation to the Constitution | Speaker(s): Cheryl Saunders|Geoffrey Bolton Date: 2004-12-14 Venue: Time: | ||
| Australian Business & China: Two Views | Speaker(s): Heather Ridout|Warwick Smith Date: 2004-11-17 Venue: Time: | ||
| Stories From the Front and the Home Front | Speaker(s): John Hamilton|Melanie Oppenheimer Date: 2004-11-10 Venue: Time: | ||
| My country – Flannery’s Australia | Speaker(s): Tim Flannery Date: 2004-11-08 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Whatever happened to Tony Blair’s Third Way? | Speaker(s): Paul Skidmore Date: 2004-10-28 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Global Nature of Terrorism | Speaker(s): Dennis Richardson Date: 2004-10-26 Venue: Time: | ||
| Poland’s National Memory: Nazism and Communism | Speaker(s): Leon Kieres Date: 2004-10-21 Venue: Time: | ||
| Israel and Palestine: Herzl’s Nightmare | Speaker(s): Peter Rodgers Date: 2004-10-13 Venue: Time: | ||
| Young Refugees from Hitler’s Germany | Speaker(s): Alan Gill|Ruth Rack Date: 2004-10-11 Venue: Time: | ||
| Advancing the Asylum Seeker Cause – A Case for Pragmatism | Speaker(s): Marion Le Date: 2004-10-05 Venue: Time: | ||
| Media Tarts: Why I Wrote It and What the Reaction Has Been | Speaker(s): Julia Baird Date: 2004-09-21 Venue: Time: | ||
| Medicare’s Best Friend | Speaker(s): Tony Abbott Date: 2004-09-15 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australia-Indonesia Relations | Speaker(s): Yuli Ismartono Date: 2004-08-30 Venue: Time: | ||
| Great Southern Land; A New History of Australia | Speaker(s): Frank Welsh Date: 2004-08-24 Venue: Time: | ||
| The ACTU and Labor | Speaker(s): Greg Combet Date: 2004-08-04 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Better than Sex? – A Generation Hooked on Work | Speaker(s): Catherine Fox|Helen Trinca Date: 2004-07-28 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Prosperity with a Purpose: A New Agenda for Economic Reform | Speaker(s): Simon Crean Date: 2004-07-26 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Individualism, Democracy and the Debate we Have to Have | Speaker(s): John Anderson Date: 2004-07-21 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Right and Wrong: How to Decide for Yourself | Speaker(s): Hugh Mackay Date: 2004-07-13 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Back on the Wool Track: In the Footsteps of C.E.W. Bean | Speaker(s): Michelle Grattan Date: 2004-07-12 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australian Citizenship: Then and Now | Speaker(s): Gary Hardgrave Date: 2004-07-07 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Climate Change – Solutions for Australia | Speaker(s): Graeme Pearman|Tony Coleman Date: 2004-07-05 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Place of Economic Management in the 2004 Election | Speaker(s): Bob McMullan Date: 2004-06-30 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Multilateralism in the Post-Iraq Order – Australia’s Commitment | Speaker(s): Kevin Rudd Date: 2004-06-27 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Exits from Wars | Speaker(s): Coral Bell Date: 2004-06-22 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Liberal Women – From 1901-1949 | Speaker(s): Margaret Fitzherbert Date: 2004-06-16 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The National Judiciary | Speaker(s): Murray Gleeson Date: 2004-06-09 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| US Foreign Policy and the 2004 Presidential Election | Speaker(s): Michael Rubin Date: 2004-06-07 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Remembering Jessie Street | Speaker(s): Lenore Coltheart Date: 2004-06-02 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The US Britain and Australia – In the Age of Terrorism | Speaker(s): Annual Dinner|William Shawcross Date: 2004-05-28 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Australia’s Policy Shift | Speaker(s): Elsina Wainwright Date: 2004-05-27 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| A New Framework: Counter-Terrorism and the Rule of Law | Speaker(s): Philip Ruddock Date: 2004-05-20 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Sinking of HMAS Voyager: What Happened? | Speaker(s): Chris Oxenbould|Tom Frame Date: 2004-05-14 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Damage Done by Critics of Australia’s Immigration Policies | Speaker(s): Amanda Vanstone Date: 2004-05-06 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Afghanistan, Iraq and the War on Terror | Speaker(s): Amin Saikal Date: 2004-05-01 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Media after Lord Hutton’s Report | Speaker(s): Sally Begbie Date: 2004-03-23 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| John Wren – A Life Reconsidered | Speaker(s): James Griffin Date: 2004-03-16 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Remembering Professor John Anderson | Speaker(s): James Franklin Date: 2004-03-10 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Security and Legitimacy: Managing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict | Speaker(s): Leanne Piggott Date: 2004-03-02 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Understanding the New America – A US Global Perspective | Speaker(s): Tom Pickering Date: 2004-03-01 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Promoting Competition and Fair Trading | Speaker(s): Graeme Samuel Date: 2004-02-25 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Fleeing Saddam Hussein | Speaker(s): Guzin Najim|Sandra Lee Date: 2004-02-18 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Honesty and the Issues | Speaker(s): Andrew Bolt|Anne Henderson|Frank Brennan Date: 2004-02-11 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Democrats, Public Policy and The Senate | Speaker(s): Andrew Bartlett Date: 2004-02-09 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Impact of Terrorism – Two Views | Speaker(s): David McKnight|Jenny Hocking Date: 2004-02-03 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Dealing with Mental and Physical Illness | Speaker(s): Dorothy Rowe Date: 2004-01-28 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| 2004 – The Political Outlook | Speaker(s): Antony Green|Grahame Morris|Mary Easson Date: 2004-01-20 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The End of Equality | Speaker(s): Anne Summers|Dominique Hogan-Doran Date: 2003-12-11 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Fact or Fission – Some Reflections on Australia’s Nuclear Industry | Speaker(s): Richard Broinowski Date: 2003-12-09 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Bluestocking in Patagonia: Mary Gilmore’s Quest at the World’s End | Speaker(s): Anne Whitehead Date: 2003-12-02 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Indonesian Islam and Democracy | Speaker(s): Syafi’i Ma’arif Date: 2003-12-01 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Morality versus Ideology – Will the Public Ever Trust Politicians Again? | Speaker(s): Tom Bentley Date: 2003-11-24 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Communicating Communications Policy | Speaker(s): Daryl Williams Date: 2003-11-19 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Hawke Government – A Retrospective | Speaker(s): Gerard Henderson|Susan Ryan Date: 2003-11-11 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Politics of Meaninglessness | Speaker(s): Michael Casey Date: 2003-11-05 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australian Liberals and The Moral Middle Class | Speaker(s): Judith Brett Date: 2003-10-29 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Factoring in our Grandchildren | Speaker(s): Bob Brown Date: 2003-10-21 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Media and Politics in Australia: From World War II to the Dismissal | Speaker(s): Bridget Griffen-Foley Date: 2003-10-13 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Senate Reform | Speaker(s): John Faulkner Date: 2003-09-30 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| History on Foot: The Central Australian Expedition 2002 | Speaker(s): Kieran Kelly Date: 2003-09-23 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The History Wars | Speaker(s): Janet Albrechtsen|Stuart Macintyre Date: 2003-09-16 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Griffith Review – Launching Australia’s Newest Quarterly | Speaker(s): Frank Moorhouse|Geraldine Doogue|Julianne Schultz Date: 2003-09-09 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Environmental Issues and Policy – The Role of Government and Business | Speaker(s): Kerry Schott Date: 2003-09-02 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Whatever Happened to the Dot-Com Revolution? | Speaker(s): Lindsay Tanner Date: 2003-08-26 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Managing Compliance | Speaker(s): Michael Carmody Date: 2003-08-18 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Women’s Role in Medical Research: A Case Study from the History of the Asthma Foundation of NSW | Speaker(s): Babette Smith Date: 2003-08-12 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Contemporary US Politics in the Lead Up to the 2004 Election | Speaker(s): Norm Ornstein Date: 2003-08-11 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Iraqi Campaign – The Political Consequences for the Arab World | Speaker(s): David Pryce-Jones Date: 2003-08-06 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Neo-Conservatives: In Defence of America | Speaker(s): Ruth Wisse Date: 2003-08-04 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Hindmarsh Island Affair and Australian Anthropology | Speaker(s): Margaret Simons|Ron Brunton Date: 2003-07-30 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Equality and Inequality – Two Views | Speaker(s): Jacinta Collins|Tony Smith Date: 2003-07-22 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Building Social Capital | Speaker(s): Peter Costello Date: 2003-07-16 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Water: Australia’s Challenge | Speaker(s): Ticky Fullerton Date: 2003-07-14 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australian Defence: After the Defence Review | Speaker(s): Alan Dupont|Hugh White Date: 2003-07-08 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australian Foreign Policy | Speaker(s): John Howard Date: 2003-07-01 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Clerical Celibacy – The Catholic Problem | Speaker(s): Edmund Campion Date: 2003-06-24 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Bali as Blowback: Australia’s Reputation in Asian Countries | Speaker(s): Alison Broinowski Date: 2003-06-17 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Good Partner, Neighbour and Ally: Reflections on Australian Defence | Speaker(s): Peter Cosgrove Date: 2003-06-10 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Postmoderism: What Went Wrong? | Speaker(s): Ihab Hassan Date: 2003-06-05 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Labor’s Approach to Corporate Governance – Empowering the Shareholder | Speaker(s): Stephen Conroy Date: 2003-05-12 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Islam in Australia and the US | Speaker(s): Hind Kourouche Date: 2003-05-06 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Condemned to Repeat? The Paradox of Humanitarian Action | Speaker(s): Fiona Terry Date: 2003-04-30 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Advertisments for Myself | Speaker(s): Annual Dinner|Kate Jennings Date: 2003-04-29 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Left: Two Views | Speaker(s): Imre Salusinszky|Margo Kingston Date: 2003-04-16 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Holocaust Denial: After the David Irving Trial | Speaker(s): Yehuda Bauer Date: 2003-04-14 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Pressures on the Budget | Speaker(s): Nick Minchin Date: 2003-04-08 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Do Australian Households Borrow too Much? | Speaker(s): Ian Macfarlane Date: 2003-04-03 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Politics of War | Speaker(s): David Day Date: 2003-04-01 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Reflections On Diplomacy: Australia’s Role in an Ever-changing World | Speaker(s): Richard Woolcott Date: 2003-03-18 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Winning the Culture War | Speaker(s): Julia Gillard Date: 2003-03-11 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Balancing Work and Family: The Canadian Report | Speaker(s): Linda Duxbury Date: 2003-03-10 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Fiji-Australia Bilateral: Shifting Into a Higher Gear | Speaker(s): Kaliopate Tavola Date: 2003-03-05 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Dealing with North Korea | Speaker(s): James Cotton Date: 2003-03-03 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Future of Medicine in Australia | Speaker(s): Kerryn Phelps Date: 2003-02-24 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Spread of Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Weapons – The Sum of All Our Fears | Speaker(s): Alexander Downer Date: 2003-02-17 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Fabrication of Aboriginal History | Speaker(s): Keith Windschuttle Date: 2003-02-11 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| My Life in India | Speaker(s): Sarah McDonald Date: 2003-02-04 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Weapons of Mass Destruction – The Iraq Case and All Others | Speaker(s): Richard Butler Date: 2003-01-28 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Pope Pius XII and Nazi Germany | Speaker(s): Edgar Feuchtwanger Date: 2002-12-10 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Graeme Murphy – A Life | Speaker(s): Graeme Murphy Date: 2002-12-03 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| George Pell, Prelate and Public Figure -Two Views | Speaker(s): Stephen Crittenden|Tess Livingstone Date: 2002-11-26 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Henry’s Harmonica – Memory and History in a Genocidal World | Speaker(s): Douglas Greenberg Date: 2002-11-19 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Trade – Multilateral and Bilateral | Speaker(s): Mark Vaile Date: 2002-11-18 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Joe Stalin and My Family – The Tale of One is the Tale of Many | Speaker(s): Mara Moustafine Date: 2002-11-12 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australia’s Aging Population – Some Answers | Speaker(s): Bob Gregory|Bronwyn Bishop Date: 2002-11-04 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Israel – An Australian View | Speaker(s): Sam Lipski Date: 2002-10-29 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Arc of Instability – Arc of Insecurity | Speaker(s): Kevin Rudd Date: 2002-10-23 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Mandatory Detention – What Australians Don’t Know | Speaker(s): Frank Brennan|Linda Jaivin|Paris Aristotle Date: 2002-10-16 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Industry in a Global World | Speaker(s): Ian Macfarlane Date: 2002-10-09 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Hope Happens!… Moving on From 9/11 | Speaker(s): Catherine DeVrye Date: 2002-10-01 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Free Trade Hypocrisy in America and Europe – What Can Australia Do? | Speaker(s): John Kunkel Date: 2002-09-24 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Middle East – A Palestinian View | Speaker(s): Mustapha Barghouthi Date: 2002-09-19 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Writing a Boyd Family Biography | Speaker(s): Brenda Niall Date: 2002-09-17 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australia’s Foreign Trade Policy Agenda | Speaker(s): Ashton Calvert Date: 2002-09-10 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Public Death of Public Discourse | Speaker(s): Amanda Vanstone Date: 2002-09-03 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Mixed Matches: Inter-racial Marriage in Australia | Speaker(s): June Duncan Owen Date: 2002-08-27 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Sectarianism, Politics and Australia’s Catholics | Speaker(s): Jeff Kildea|Judith Brett Date: 2002-08-21 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Heroine in the Shadows – The Search for Australia’s Most Decorated Women | Speaker(s): Susanna De Vries Date: 2002-08-13 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Getting a Message Across – Language, Law and Economics | Speaker(s): Chris Enright|Lindy Edwards Date: 2002-08-06 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| After Writing About Paul Keating | Speaker(s): Don Watson Date: 2002-07-31 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| New South Wales – Planning for the Future | Speaker(s): John Brogden Date: 2002-07-23 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Once an Australian – Reflections of a British Cabinet Minister | Speaker(s): Annual Dinner|Patricia Hewitt Date: 2002-07-15 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| A New Agenda for Government | Speaker(s): Bob Carr Date: 2002-07-09 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Black Chicks Talking | Speaker(s): Leah Purcell Date: 2002-07-04 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Is the Family Becoming an Endangered Species? | Speaker(s): Wayne Swan Date: 2002-07-02 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Explaining the War Against Terrorism: A US View from Islamabad | Speaker(s): Kenton Keith Date: 2002-07-01 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Single Bottom Line Sustainability | Speaker(s): Paul Gilding Date: 2002-06-25 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Changing Threat of International Terrorism | Speaker(s): Boaz Ganor Date: 2002-06-19 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The United Nations – Overstretched and Out of Date? | Speaker(s): Rita Hauser Date: 2002-06-17 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| We’re All in it Together | Speaker(s): Jenny Macklin Date: 2002-06-12 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Clash of Fundamentalisms | Speaker(s): Tariq Ali Date: 2002-06-03 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Canada and Australia: The Differences | Speaker(s): David Malouf|John Ralston Saul Date: 2002-06-02 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australia-US Relations: From Vietnam to George W Bush | Speaker(s): Joel Shin|Michael Sexton|Robert Sutter Date: 2002-05-28 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| John Gorton – His Way | Speaker(s): Ainsley Gotto|Ian Hancock Date: 2002-05-19 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| On the Road with Lord McAlpine | Speaker(s): Alistair McAlpine Date: 2002-05-15 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Fire, Snow and Honey – Voices from Kurdistan | Speaker(s): Gina Lennox Date: 2002-05-13 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Fighting for Franco – In the Spanish Civil War | Speaker(s): Judith Keene Date: 2002-05-07 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Fiji – Social and Political Upheaval | Speaker(s): Susan Boyd Date: 2002-04-30 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Northern Gateway – NT Finds the Future | Speaker(s): Clare Martin Date: 2002-04-29 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Getting It Right – Damien Parer, Osmar White and Chester Wilmot on The Kokoda Track | Speaker(s): Neil McDonald Date: 2002-04-23 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Politics and the Young | Speaker(s): Christopher Pyne|Nicola Roxon Date: 2002-04-15 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Vision of Education – Higher Education Reform | Speaker(s): Brendan Nelson Date: 2002-04-10 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Stasiland: Writing a World Gone Wrong | Speaker(s): Anna Funder Date: 2002-04-08 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Human Rights and the Women of Afghanistan | Speaker(s): Tahmeena Faryal Date: 2002-04-03 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Ronald Ryan and Ned Kelly | Speaker(s): Mike Richards Date: 2002-03-20 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Biography and Memory – The Killing of Sister McCormack | Speaker(s): Anne Henderson|William Deane Date: 2002-03-12 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Running in the Family – Novels, Films and Nations | Speaker(s): Andrea Stretton|Michael Ondaatje|Thomas Keneally Date: 2002-03-08 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The New China in Asia and the World | Speaker(s): Kenneth DeWoskin Date: 2002-03-06 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| 1901 and Australian Settlement | Speaker(s): Marian Simms Date: 2002-03-05 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| “Safety in Numbers” – Tax Reform and the National Nest Egg | Speaker(s): Helen Coonan Date: 2002-02-27 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| International Nuclear Issues – And Terrorism | Speaker(s): Max Hughes Date: 2002-02-14 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Our Industrial Relations System – What Makes it Unique? | Speaker(s): Geoff Giudice Date: 2002-02-12 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Mental Illness – Speaking the Unspeakable | Speaker(s): Anne Deveson|Clare Loewenthal Date: 2002-02-05 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Whither The Australian Film Industry? | Speaker(s): Peter Thompson Date: 2002-02-02 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| A Conservative Reflection on Family, the State and Social Capital | Speaker(s): Ross Cameron Date: 2002-01-30 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Mexico’s Art and Politics – From Malinche to Frida Kahlo | Speaker(s): Anna Lanyon Date: 2001-12-11 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Britain and the Global Issues | Speaker(s): John Prescott Date: 2001-12-04 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Success of Women in Small Business | Speaker(s): Pru Goward Date: 2001-12-03 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Australian People | Speaker(s): James Jupp Date: 2001-11-27 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Remebering Ben Chifley | Speaker(s): David Day Date: 2001-11-20 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Trauma and Memory in Australian History | Speaker(s): Diane Armstrong|Michael McKernan Date: 2001-11-07 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Drugs and Society – Australia, the Netherlands and the USA | Speaker(s): Jonathan Caulkins|Peter Cohen Date: 2001-10-30 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Monkey and the Dragon – A Story of China and Taiwan | Speaker(s): Linda Jaivin Date: 2001-10-09 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| My Flight to the Space Station and Walk in Space | Speaker(s): Andy Thomas|Annual Dinner Date: 2001-10-08 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Leadership | Speaker(s): Natasha Stott Despoja Date: 2001-10-02 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Two Nations or a Knowledge Nation | Speaker(s): Stephen Smith Date: 2001-09-27 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The DNA Revolution – Does Privacy Matter? | Speaker(s): Thomas J Schneider Date: 2001-09-26 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australian Writing – The Challenges | Speaker(s): Frank Moorhouse|Nikki Gemmell Date: 2001-09-25 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| War Criminals – Where is the Justice | Speaker(s): Mark Aarons Date: 2001-09-18 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Globalisation and its Critics | Speaker(s): Clive Crook Date: 2001-09-16 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Islam and the Afghanistan Crisis – Two Perspectives | Speaker(s): Dewi Anggraeni|William Maley Date: 2001-09-11 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Work and Employment Policy in the UK | Speaker(s): Alistair Darling Date: 2001-09-06 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| A City That Works | Speaker(s): Elizabeth Farrelly|Elsa Atkin|George Miller Date: 2001-09-03 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Ethical Lives – Two Views | Speaker(s): Bernadette Tobin|Peter Singer Date: 2001-08-28 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Selling the Work Ethic | Speaker(s): Garry Brack|Sharon Beder Date: 2001-08-27 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Tax Reform – What’s Next? | Speaker(s): Anna Carrabs|Chris Jordan Date: 2001-08-21 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Case of The Jewish Biography | Speaker(s): Michael Govrin Date: 2001-08-15 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Peter Costello – The New Liberal | Speaker(s): Shaun Carney Date: 2001-08-14 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Tall Poppies – Decade On | Speaker(s): Susan Mitchell Date: 2001-08-01 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Challenges And Benefits of Globalisation | Speaker(s): Peter Costello Date: 2001-07-25 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Remembering Bob Santamaria | Speaker(s): Bruce Duncan|Greg Sheridan Date: 2001-07-24 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Where to? – Australia and Japan | Speaker(s): Masako Fukui|Peter Drysdale Date: 2001-07-18 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| In the National Interest | Speaker(s): Hilary McPhee Date: 2001-07-10 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Campaign Against Economic Reform | Speaker(s): William Coleman Date: 2001-07-03 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Here I Stand: Spirituality in the 21st Century | Speaker(s): John Shelby Spong|Paul Stenhouse Date: 2001-06-26 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Civil Society, the New Millenium and the Commonwealth of Nations | Speaker(s): Rudo Chitiga Date: 2001-06-25 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The ABC – Unique Competition | Speaker(s): Jonathan Shier Date: 2001-06-19 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Knowledge Nation | Speaker(s): Kim Beazley Date: 2001-06-14 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Law, Politics and the Media | Speaker(s): Ruth McColl Date: 2001-06-12 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Where for Welfare? | Speaker(s): Ann Harding|Patrick McClure|Steve Maharey Date: 2001-06-05 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australia’s Population: The Options | Speaker(s): Barry Jones|Katherine Betts|Kevin Andrews|Meredith Hellicar Date: 2001-05-31 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Peace Keeping Lessons – The ADF in East Timor and Bouganville | Speaker(s): Bob Breen Date: 2001-05-23 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The 2001-2002 Migration Program | Speaker(s): Philip Ruddock Date: 2001-05-16 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Critic Critique Thyself: Media and Self-Delusion | Speaker(s): Pilita Clark|Rob Johnson Date: 2001-05-08 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Trade, the USA and Down Under’s Tyranny of Size | Speaker(s): Ann Capling Date: 2001-04-30 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Globalisation and Competition Policy | Speaker(s): Allan Fels Date: 2001-04-23 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Online Gambling | Speaker(s): John Tierney|Steve Toneguzzo Date: 2001-04-18 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Harry Seidler – A Life | Speaker(s): Alice Spigelman Date: 2001-04-10 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Foreign Investment: What is at Stake? | Speaker(s): Ian Harper|John Quiggin Date: 2001-04-03 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Broome – Remote Frontier Town or the Future Shape of Australia | Speaker(s): Anne Coombs|Susan Varga Date: 2001-04-02 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australia, Science Policy and the Commercialisation of Ideas | Speaker(s): Ann Henderson-Sellers|Catherine Livingstone|Robin Batterham|Robyn Williams|Ron Johnston Date: 2001-03-28 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Bush Administration – Prospects and Expectations | Speaker(s): Vin Weber Date: 2001-03-27 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Against Roonism – Combating the Culture of Despair | Speaker(s): Tony Abbott Date: 2001-03-20 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| English as a Global Language – Opportunity or Threat | Speaker(s): Anne Burns Date: 2001-03-07 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| People and Nations – Their Need to Love and Hate | Speaker(s): Dorothy Rowe Date: 2001-02-26 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| National Vision – John Flynn and the Blind Spots of Leadership | Speaker(s): Penelope Nelson Date: 2001-02-20 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Protecting People – Tax Reform and the Impact of Structured Settlements | Speaker(s): Danna Vale|Jane Ferguson|Judie Stephens Date: 2001-02-14 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Powerhouse or Branch Office? Australia’s Choice | Speaker(s): Lindsay Tanner Date: 2001-02-12 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Egalitarian Australia – Then and Now | Speaker(s): Phillip Knightley|Virginia Ginnane Date: 2001-02-06 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Election 2001 | Speaker(s): Antony Green|David Barnett|Gary Gray|Marian Simms Date: 2001-01-30 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Globalising People | Speaker(s): Gwynne Dyer Date: 2001-01-03 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Lunch with Maxine McKew | Speaker(s): Maxine McKew Date: 2000-12-11 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Augustus Gregory and Australian History | Speaker(s): Kieran Kelly Date: 2000-12-05 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Reinventing International Drug Control | Speaker(s): Ernest Drucker Date: 2000-11-29 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Jim McLelland: What Made Him Tick? | Speaker(s): Gillian Appleton Date: 2000-11-28 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australian Prime Minsters – A Discussion | Speaker(s): Anne Henderson|Gerard Henderson|Helen Irving|Neal Blewett|Paul Kelly Date: 2000-11-22 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Does it Work Anymore? The Changing Nature of Work | Speaker(s): Cheryl Kernot Date: 2000-11-15 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Finding the AE2 | Speaker(s): Selcuk Kolay Date: 2000-11-09 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Uncertain Justice: Inside Australia’s Legal System | Speaker(s): Michael Sexton Date: 2000-10-31 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Iran and the Middle East | Speaker(s): David Menashri Date: 2000-10-25 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| 21st Century Innovation in Australia | Speaker(s): Richard Alston Date: 2000-10-23 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Why the Senate? | Speaker(s): Ann Millar Date: 2000-10-17 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Duty of Care – Paying the Price | Speaker(s): Steve Pratt Date: 2000-10-10 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Liberating Our Environment | Speaker(s): Peta Seaton Date: 2000-10-05 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The International Criminal Court – What’s the Future for War Criminals? | Speaker(s): Helen Brady Date: 2000-09-05 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Whispers Outside the Boardroom Door – Making Working Australia’s Money Talk | Speaker(s): Sharan Burrow Date: 2000-08-29 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Ignorance of Language Acquisition as a Barrier to Justice | Speaker(s): Anne Graffam Walker Date: 2000-08-23 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Water Politics and the Mekong: China’s Dams and Indochina | Speaker(s): Milton Osborne Date: 2000-08-22 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Renewing Democracy: Can Women make a Difference? | Speaker(s): Carmen Lawrence Date: 2000-08-17 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Middle East Today | Speaker(s): Moshe Ma’oz Date: 2000-08-14 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Uncle Reg’s Bookcase – The World Through Books | Speaker(s): Margaret Scott Date: 2000-08-07 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australia’s Noisome Neighbours: Never Pacific, Never Paradise, Never Ours | Speaker(s): Rowan Callick Date: 2000-08-01 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Social Democratic Responses to Globalisation | Speaker(s): Kevin Rudd Date: 2000-07-26 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Globalisation and International Intervention | Speaker(s): Alexander Downer Date: 2000-07-17 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| High Risk, High Reward- Launching Memoirs | Speaker(s): Wendy McCarthy Date: 2000-07-11 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Globalisation, the US, Geopolitics and New Paternerships in the 21st Century | Speaker(s): Robert Hunter Date: 2000-07-07 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Liberal Party and the Neglect of History | Speaker(s): Ian Hancock Date: 2000-07-04 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Battle for Australia’s Waterfront | Speaker(s): Anne Davies|Chris Corrigan|Helen Trinca|Paul Houlihan Date: 2000-06-27 Venue: Time: | ||
| One Mission Accomplished: What’s Next? | Speaker(s): Annual Dinner|Bob Mansfield|Frank Conroy|Meredith Hellicar|Peter Cosgrove Date: 2000-06-20 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Richard Wagner’s Anti-Semitism | Speaker(s): Gottfried H. Wagner Date: 2000-06-19 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Australian Media | Speaker(s): Paul Keating Date: 2000-06-14 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Court of Sir Frank Packer | Speaker(s): Donald Horne Date: 2000-06-06 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Variable Geometry: A Wales Perspective | Speaker(s): Rhodri Morgan Date: 2000-06-06 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Taking off the Mask – The Frank Lowy Story | Speaker(s): Jill Margo Date: 2000-05-23 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Deliver Us From Evil | Speaker(s): William Shawcross Date: 2000-05-19 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Facts, Projection, Politics and the Objective Journalist | Speaker(s): Margaret Simons Date: 2000-05-16 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| corporategovernance.com | Speaker(s): Joe Hockey Date: 2000-05-01 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australia and Moscow – The Whole Story | Speaker(s): Peter Charlton Date: 2000-04-26 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Hospital Crisis – Who Cares? | Speaker(s): Jenny Macklin|Kerryn Phelps|Kim Oates Date: 2000-04-17 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Labor’s Case Against the GST and Sale of Telstra | Speaker(s): Kim Beazley Date: 2000-04-13 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Lessons From the Performing Arts Inquiry | Speaker(s): Helen Nugent Date: 2000-04-12 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australia’s Refugee Policy | Speaker(s): Margaret Piper Date: 2000-04-04 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Corporate Social Responsibility | Speaker(s): Peter Duncan Date: 2000-03-29 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Curtin as Hero | Speaker(s): David Day Date: 2000-03-21 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Some Aspects of Economic Governance | Speaker(s): Ted Evans Date: 2000-03-14 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Limits to Equality | Speaker(s): Marilyn Lake Date: 2000-03-08 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Laying the Foundations of the Knowledge Nation | Speaker(s): Michael Lee Date: 2000-03-06 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Towards the End of Nuclear Testing – The CTBT and Australia | Speaker(s): Wolfgang Hoffman Date: 2000-03-05 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Timor – East and West | Speaker(s): Marise Payne|Tim Fischer Date: 2000-02-29 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The UK – The Third Way | Speaker(s): John Battle Date: 2000-02-24 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| R.G. Menzies – A Life | Speaker(s): Allan Martin Date: 2000-02-15 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Environmental Cringe? Recognition Abroad Not at Home | Speaker(s): Robert Hill Date: 2000-02-10 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| History and the Constitution | Speaker(s): Helen Irving Date: 2000-02-08 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Capacity, Capacity, Capacity: Communities and Community Services | Speaker(s): Carmel Niland Date: 2000-02-01 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Sydney’s Story | Speaker(s): Lucy Turnbull Date: 2000-01-24 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Turning Point: Australians at the end of this Century | Speaker(s): Hugh Mackay Date: 1999-11-29 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Social Democracy in Cyberspace | Speaker(s): McKenzie Wark Date: 1999-11-22 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Re-embracing the Bush | Speaker(s): John Anderson Date: 1999-11-17 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Politics of Media Regulation | Speaker(s): Fred Hilmer Date: 1999-11-09 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Perils and Pleasures of Autobiography | Speaker(s): Anne Summers Date: 1999-11-03 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Living in the Shadow: The Corporate Wife, Germaine Greer and Me | Speaker(s): Jenny Ferguson Date: 1999-10-27 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Avoiding Boom/Bust: Macro-economic Reform for a Globalised Economy | Speaker(s): Tony Berg Date: 1999-10-25 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Pauline Hanson and the Media | Speaker(s): Margo Kingston Date: 1999-10-19 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Sandline: Australia’s Wake Up Call – Have we Heard It? | Speaker(s): Mary-Louise O’Callaghan Date: 1999-10-12 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| After the Party’s Over: Australia in the Next Century | Speaker(s): John Fahey Date: 1999-10-06 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Inequality:Problems and Solutions | Speaker(s): Julie Bishop Date: 1999-10-05 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Remembering James McAuley | Speaker(s): Cassandra Pybus|Donald Horne|Peter Coleman Date: 1999-09-22 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Moving Forward: Policies and Directions for the NSW Liberal Party | Speaker(s): Kerry Chikarovski Date: 1999-09-13 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Globalisation – The Lexus and the Olive Tree | Speaker(s): Thomas Friedman Date: 1999-09-01 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| A Conductor’s Place | Speaker(s): Annual Dinner|Simone Young Date: 1999-08-31 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Why Human Rights Matter | Speaker(s): Wei Jingsheng Date: 1999-08-25 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Families – Fact or Fiction | Speaker(s): Susan Varga Date: 1999-08-11 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Importance of Public Broadcasting | Speaker(s): Donald McDonald Date: 1999-08-04 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Government and Business – The Challenges | Speaker(s): Peter Beattie Date: 1999-07-28 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Hungary, Jews and Nationalism – The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion | Speaker(s): Vera Ranki Date: 1999-07-19 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| “Always a bridesmaid, never a bride” -Recognising Same Sex Relationships | Speaker(s): Julie McCrossin Date: 1999-07-13 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Beryl Beaurepaire as Biography | Speaker(s): Beryl Beaurepaire|Michael McKernan Date: 1999-07-07 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Getting Even | Speaker(s): Natasha Stott Despoja Date: 1999-07-02 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Media Culpa: Tabloid Media, Democracy and the Public Sphere | Speaker(s): Catharine Lumby Date: 1999-06-28 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Dangers of Deflation | Speaker(s): Colm Kearney Date: 1999-06-22 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Sustaining Migration: Immigration, Population Policy and Global Questions for Australia | Speaker(s): Mark O’Connor|Mary Crock Date: 1999-06-15 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| An Australian Republic – Whither, Whether or Wither | Speaker(s): Andrew Robb|Kerry Jones Date: 1999-06-08 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Rebuilding the NSW Liberals | Speaker(s): Barry O’Farrell Date: 1999-06-01 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word – The Responsibility of the Media | Speaker(s): David Flint Date: 1999-05-25 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Rollers and Dumpers – Life as a Cabinet Minister | Speaker(s): Susan Ryan Date: 1999-05-18 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Judgment Making | Speaker(s): Margaret Beazley Date: 1999-05-11 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Loneliness Crisis | Speaker(s): Lindsay Tanner Date: 1999-05-04 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Drugs – The Doctor’s Dilemma | Speaker(s): Brendan Nelson Date: 1999-04-27 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Censorship – Lolita and Modern Society | Speaker(s): Alan Cadman|Tanya Plibersek Date: 1999-04-20 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Writing Jennie George | Speaker(s): Brad Norington Date: 1999-04-13 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Israel and the Middle East | Speaker(s): Ehud Ya’ari Date: 1999-04-12 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Economic Leadership for Growth and Development | Speaker(s): Simon Crean Date: 1999-03-30 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Raising Grown-Ups – Lessons from a Mother-Son Relationship | Speaker(s): Babette Smith Date: 1999-03-29 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| “I was appalled when I read”: Reflections of a Letters Editor | Speaker(s): Geraldine Walsh Date: 1999-03-23 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Legal Oil and Political Vinegar | Speaker(s): Murray Gleeson Date: 1999-03-16 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Injustice: A Case Study | Speaker(s): Janet Fife-Yeomans|Kirstyn Austin Date: 1999-03-09 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Book Relaunch of Strictly Boardroom | Speaker(s): Fred Hilmer Date: 1999-03-08 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Scapegoating Multiculturalism: The Complexities of the Identity Debate | Speaker(s): Petro Georgiou Date: 1999-03-03 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Art of Persuasion in Business, Negotiation and the Media | Speaker(s): Peter Thompson Date: 1999-03-01 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| On the Ball with the ACCC | Speaker(s): Allan Fels Date: 1999-02-24 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Electorial Reform – The Baby and the Bathwater? | Speaker(s): Meg Lees Date: 1999-02-22 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Polling the Australian Electorate – Art or Science? | Speaker(s): Sol Lebovic Date: 1999-02-17 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Ireland and Australia in the Age of the Euro | Speaker(s): Mary Harney Date: 1999-02-08 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Senate – Safeguard or Handbrake on Democracy? | Speaker(s): Helen Coonan Date: 1999-02-03 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Drawing Blood | Speaker(s): Bill Leak Date: 1999-01-27 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Great Shame – The Irish Diaspora and Australia | Speaker(s): Thomas Keneally Date: 1998-11-30 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Is Islam A Threat? | Speaker(s): Daniel Pipes Date: 1998-11-28 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Thailand in the Next Millennium: Opportunities for Australia | Speaker(s): Laxanachantorn Laohaphan Date: 1998-11-23 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Cambodia’s Orphans | Speaker(s): Geraldine Cox Date: 1998-11-17 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Gallipoli’s Naval Secret: The Search for the AE2 | Speaker(s): Mark Spencer Date: 1998-11-11 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Macquarie and the Changing Order of Englishes | Speaker(s): Sue Butler Date: 1998-11-04 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Russia: Which Way Paradise? | Speaker(s): Monica Attard Date: 1998-10-28 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Education: Three Years of Reform | Speaker(s): Bob Carr Date: 1998-10-26 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Into Parliament She Must Go – Women and Politics | Speaker(s): Chris McDiven|Joan Kirner|Lis Kirkby Date: 1998-10-13 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Banking – The Future Dynamics | Speaker(s): Catherine Allen Date: 1998-10-01 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Democracy, Accountability and the Media | Speaker(s): Julianne Schultz Date: 1998-09-22 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Why the Arts Matter | Speaker(s): Adrian Collette|Margaret Seares Date: 1998-09-15 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Kim Beazley – A Life | Speaker(s): Peter FitzSimons Date: 1998-09-07 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The State of the Parties | Speaker(s): Antony Green Date: 1998-09-01 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Visiting the Countries of the Mind – A Scientist’s Perspective of the Australian Experience | Speaker(s): Annual Dinner|Peter C Doherty Date: 1998-08-27 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Japanese Economy – What Now? | Speaker(s): Hugh Patrick Date: 1998-08-26 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Aussie Chicks in Tough Places | Speaker(s): Nikki Gemmell Date: 1998-08-19 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australia’s KGB Network | Speaker(s): Des Ball Date: 1998-08-18 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Human Rights and China – Trading In Body Parts | Speaker(s): Harry Wu Date: 1998-08-14 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Men, Women and Work – Time for a New Dialogue | Speaker(s): Catherine Harris Date: 1998-08-11 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Future of the Australian Democrats | Speaker(s): Meg Lees Date: 1998-08-04 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Philanthropy | Speaker(s): Eric D’Indy|Margaret Miller|Richard Pratt Date: 1998-07-28 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Paradise Mislaid: In Search of the Australian Tribe of Paraguay | Speaker(s): Anne Whitehead Date: 1998-07-21 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Learning to Fly: A Political Education in the Sixties and Seventies | Speaker(s): Cassandra Pybus Date: 1998-07-14 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Coalition as a Reforming Government | Speaker(s): Jocelyn Newman Date: 1998-07-06 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Communications Revolution | Speaker(s): Frances Cairncross Date: 1998-06-30 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Future of Europe | Speaker(s): Leon Brittan Date: 1998-06-22 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Values and Choices in Economic Policy | Speaker(s): Gareth Evans Date: 1998-06-16 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australia’s Economy – And Reform | Speaker(s): Peter Costello Date: 1998-06-11 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Aboriginal Education in NSW – Which Way Forward? | Speaker(s): Linda Burney|Noel Beddoe Date: 1998-06-01 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Future of Australian Publishing | Speaker(s): Sophie Cunningham Date: 1998-05-25 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australia’s Taxation System: From Political Football to Fiscal Foundation | Speaker(s): Geoff Carmody Date: 1998-05-20 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Building the World in One Country – Immigration, Canada and Australia | Speaker(s): Gwynne Dyer Date: 1998-05-19 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australia’s Future; It’s Minds Not Mines! | Speaker(s): Dale Spender Date: 1998-05-11 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| European Monetary Union – An Update | Speaker(s): Laurens Brinkhorst Date: 1998-05-06 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| What Women Have Done to Westminster | Speaker(s): Linda McDougall Date: 1998-05-04 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The New Radical Centre | Speaker(s): Mark Latham Date: 1998-04-29 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Lost Workforce: Australians Over 45 and the Changing Face of Work | Speaker(s): Cheryl Kernot Date: 1998-04-22 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Women in the Post-Industrial Society | Speaker(s): Pru Goward Date: 1998-04-15 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Orphans of the Empire – Child Migration to Australia | Speaker(s): Alan Gill Date: 1998-03-31 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Inside Media Watch | Speaker(s): David Salter Date: 1998-03-24 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The End of the Tyranny of Distance for Rural Australia | Speaker(s): Tim Fischer Date: 1998-03-19 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Women, History and The Church | Speaker(s): Janet West Date: 1998-03-11 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Reflections on Economic Reform | Speaker(s): Fred Hilmer Date: 1998-03-04 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Celebrating Federation | Speaker(s): Helen Irving|Rodney Cavalier Date: 1998-02-24 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Asia, The IMF and Australia | Speaker(s): Ted Evans Date: 1998-02-17 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Women and Business – A Class Apart? | Speaker(s): Deborah Tarrant Date: 1998-02-10 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Gift of Evil: Who Owns Property Stolen in Times of War | Speaker(s): Andrew Riemer|Colin Tatz Date: 1998-02-03 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australia: A Nation in Transition | Speaker(s): Bill Scales Date: 1997-12-08 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Killing Them Softly: How We Damage Young People in the Ninties | Speaker(s): John Marsden Date: 1997-12-01 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Bodyjamming, Feminism and Public Life | Speaker(s): Jenna Mead|Meaghan Morris Date: 1997-11-25 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Three Generations – Three Australias? | Speaker(s): Hugh Mackay Date: 1997-11-17 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australia’s Health – Australia’s Medicine | Speaker(s): Judith Whitworth Date: 1997-11-11 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Diplomacy and Human Rights | Speaker(s): Count de Marchant et d’Ansembourgh Date: 1997-11-06 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Privacy and the Press | Speaker(s): Lord Wakeham Date: 1997-11-05 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Protection and the Bush | Speaker(s): Wendy Craik Date: 1997-10-28 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Bounders, Biographers and Billets-Doux | Speaker(s): Christine Wallace Date: 1997-10-21 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Europe with Britain and Blair | Speaker(s): John Palmer Date: 1997-10-15 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Wik: The Aftermath | Speaker(s): David Russell|Rick Farley Date: 1997-10-14 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Culture: Parochialism versus Nationalism | Speaker(s): Brian Matthews|Ferdinand Mount|Hilary McPhee Date: 1997-10-07 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Young Liberals: Contemporary Battles | Speaker(s): Gladys Berejiklian Date: 1997-10-01 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Crime, Property and Society | Speaker(s): Don Weatherbur|Peter Ryan|Yvonne Korn Date: 1997-09-23 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Survival: Australia in the 21st Century | Speaker(s): Kim Beazley Date: 1997-09-16 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Amusing Ourselves to Death: Press Criticism and Public Issues | Speaker(s): Katharine Brisbane Date: 1997-09-09 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| A Symposium on Fathers in Writing | Speaker(s): Anne Henderson Date: 1997-09-03 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Is Australia an Asian Country? | Speaker(s): Stephen FitzGerald Date: 1997-08-26 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Bread and Circuses-Thought and Language in Decline | Speaker(s): Annual Dinner|Shirley Hazzard Date: 1997-08-13 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Tigers, Leaders of the New Asia-Pacific | Speaker(s): Greg Sheridan Date: 1997-08-12 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Tyranny of the Ter: Access to Australian Universities | Speaker(s): Amanda Vanstone Date: 1997-08-05 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Interviewing Sir Donald Bradman | Speaker(s): Ray Martin Date: 1997-07-29 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| What Should Our Children Read? | Speaker(s): Donna Gibbs|Nick Enright|Stephen O’Doherty Date: 1997-07-22 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Behind the Victory | Speaker(s): Pamela Williams Date: 1997-07-15 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| US-Australia, Hong Kong and Asia | Speaker(s): Nancy Linn-Patton Date: 1997-07-10 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Gough’s Abiding Interests | Speaker(s): Gough Whitlam Date: 1997-07-08 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australia and the Vietnam War 1965-1975 | Speaker(s): Peter Edwards Date: 1997-06-16 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Class in Australia – Kylie vs Snobs | Speaker(s): Craig McGregor Date: 1997-06-11 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Israeli Democracy in Crisis | Speaker(s): Arye Carmon Date: 1997-06-02 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Indochinese, Immigration and the Hanson Factor | Speaker(s): Nancy Viviani Date: 1997-05-27 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Guilt, Hope and the Child Care Debate | Speaker(s): Sally Loane Date: 1997-05-20 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Children and the Legal Process | Speaker(s): Kathryn Cronin Date: 1997-05-12 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Will the Emu Fly? Economic and Monetary Union in Europe | Speaker(s): Erkki Antero Liikanen Date: 1997-05-07 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The People’s Champion: Fred Paterson and St Patrick’s Day 1948 | Speaker(s): Ross Fitzgerald Date: 1997-05-01 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Robocop to Cybercop: A New Age of Censorship | Speaker(s): Helen Coonan Date: 1997-04-24 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Change, Challenge and Consensus – Priorities for Ausralian Industry in the Next Fifteen Years | Speaker(s): John Moore Date: 1997-04-23 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Future of the Australian Financial System | Speaker(s): Stan Wallis Date: 1997-04-15 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Power and the Judiciary: All For One or One For All? | Speaker(s): Moira Rayner Date: 1997-04-08 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Inside the Poem | Speaker(s): Geoffrey Lehmann Date: 1997-04-02 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Australian Business Leadership – A New Age? | Speaker(s): Oleh Butchatsky Date: 1997-03-25 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Power in The Modern State: Corporation Over Democracy | Speaker(s): John Ralston Saul Date: 1997-03-20 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Heart Versus Head: Journalism and the Audience | Speaker(s): Jenny Brockie Date: 1997-03-18 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art and Culture | Speaker(s): Paul Karlstrom Date: 1997-03-12 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Wik Judgment – The Case for Non – Extinguishment Non Discrimination and Negotiation | Speaker(s): Frank Brennan Date: 1997-03-10 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Super League Case | Speaker(s): Marianne Robinson Date: 1997-03-04 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| Reviewing the ABC | Speaker(s): Bob Mansfield Date: 1997-02-25 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) | ||
| The Implications of the Lindsay By-election for Australian Politics | Speaker(s): Jackie Kelly Date: 1997-02-19 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm) |
