Speakers A-D

Name:  Milton Osborne Bio: Former diplomat & author specialising in South-East Phnom Penh: Yesterday and Today – 3rd June 2008 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.20 No.3 in 2008 (pages 25-34) Water Politics and the Mekong: China’s Dams and Indochina – 22nd August 2000 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.12 No.4 in […]

Editor/ publisher, Justinian, Sydney Morning Herald columnist

CEO and Publisher-in-Chief of Melbourne University Publishing

Sociologist and Historian; Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies, Clark University, USA

Name: The Hon. Anthony Albanese MP Bio: Shadow Minister for Infrastructure & Transport, Cities & Tourism National Leadership in Infrastructure and Transport Reform – 10th September 2008 This speech was printed in The Sydney Papers Vol. 20 No. 4 (pages 35-43)

Poet & author, The Hanging of Jean Lee

Canadian educationalist and author The Woman Who Changed Her Brain [HarperCollins]

Rear Window Columnist, Australian Financial Review

Co-author of Armenia, Australia and the Great War

Professor Wendy Bacon is the Director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism and a well known Australian investigative journalist and non-practising lawyer.

CEO of the Institute of European Democrats in Brussels

Former Premier of NSW

ABC Presenter, journalist and author, Victoria: The Queen – An Intimate Biography of a Woman Who Ruled an Empire

Former Member Of The Sydney Anglican Synod & Author Of Inside Sydney

NSW Deputy Premier, Minister for Regional New South Wales, Minister for Skills, and Minister for Small Business; Leader of The Nationals

Director, Australian Centre on China in the World; Editor, China Story Yearbook 2012: Red Rising, Red Eclipse

Journalist and author of John Howard Prime Minister (Penguin)

UK author and writer; Leader writer, The Daily Telegraph

Former Governor of New South Wales.

Australian former Liberal Party politician

Vice-Chancellor, University of Adelaide

Minister for Small Business

UK education reformer, blogger & author of the best selling “To Miss With Love”

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment

Former Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives

Author of Minding Her Own Business – Colonial Businesswomen in Sydney

Eminent Australian historian and author, most recently, of The Story of Australia’s People and The Rise and fall of Ancient Australia

Biographer and author of I am Melba

Co-Author The Secret Cold War: The Official History of ASIO, 1975-1989 [Allen & Unwin, 2016]

37th Premier of Queensland from 2007 to 2012

Author, Beaten Down by Blood – The Battle of Mont St Quentin-Peronne 1918 [Big Sky Publishing]

National political reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age & author of From India with Love

Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, FRSL, FBA, FRS, is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian.

Shadow Attorney General; Shadow Minister for the Arts; Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate

CEO of Catholic Social Services Australia

King’s College London

Laurens Jan Brinkhorst was elected to the European Parliament in June 1994…

Name:  Alison Broinowski Bio: The Yellow Lady: Australians and Asia- Volume 4 No.3 Winter Allied or Addicted? Two Views – 19th September 2007 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.19 No.4 in 2007 (pages 47-58) The UN: Can It Work? – 2nd November 2005 Bali as Blowback: Australia’s Reputation in Asian Countries – 17th June […]

Executive Director, China Studies Centre

Senior Fellow – Energy Policy and the Environment, Manhattan Institute; Author, Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong

Name:  Amanda Buckley Bio: Chief Political Reporter for The Daily Telegraph Mirror Reporting Australian Politics: A Tabloid View from Canberra – 10th September 1991 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.3 No.3 in 1991 (pages 96-104)

Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities

Financial Services Industry & former NSW Treasury

Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy & Federal President, ALP

Name:  Alan Cadman Bio: Liberal Member for Mitchell Censorship – Lolita and Modern Society – 20th April 1999 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.11 No.2 in 1999 (pages 123-125)

Name: Rev. Edmund Campion Bio: Author and historian Clerical Celibacy – The Catholic Problem – 24th June 2003 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.15 No.2 in 2003 (pages 71-82) Irish and Catholic and Australian – 14th March 1995 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.7 No.2 in 1995 (pages 77-83)

Minister for Resources and Northern Australia

Music Director, MLC School, Sydney 

Arye Carmon is the Founding President and Senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute.

Author, novelist, journalist, columnist, lecturer & media commentator

Former Premier of NSW & federal Foreign Minister; author Run for Your Life [MUP, 2018]

Minister for Employment, Minister for Women & Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service

Hannah & Emil [Allen & Unwin])

Chief Opinion Editor, The Australian & author The Lucky Culture

Author, Rusted Off – Why Country Australia is fed up

Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney

Host of New York’s China Uncensored

Director of the Centre for Drug Research at the University of
Amsterdam

Founder, The Balanu Foundation

Name:  Adrianne Collette Bio:  Why Human Rights Matter – 25th August 1999 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.11 No.4 in 1999 (pages 31-35) Why the Arts Matter – 15th September 1998 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.10 No. 4 in 1998 (pages 147-152)

Film maker & Co-Director, Mrs Carey’s Concert

NSW Minister for Transport

Minister for Finance and Acting Assistant Treasurer

Author of The Evolution of Central Banking in Australia

Crime writer

General Sir Peter John Cosgrove, AK, MC is a retired senior Australian Army officer and the 26th and current Governor-General of Australia

Minister for Trade

 Economics Correspondent, The Australian

Name:  Alison Crook Bio: – Volume 7 No.3 Winter Travels with Bob Carr: Attracting Investment for New South Wales This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.7 No.3 in 1995 (pages 97-102)

Historian; author, The Price of a Wife: The Priest and the Divorce Trial

Publisher, broadcaster, founder of the conservative blog Iain Dale’s Dairy; author, Total Politics: The Guide to Political Blogging in the UK 2010-2011

Name:  Alexander Dallin Bio: Author of “The Gorbachev Era” The Communist World in Crisis: Promise or Chaos? – 5th February 1991 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.3 No.1 in 1991 (pages 23-40)

Member for Melbourne Ports & Parliamentary Secretary to the leader of the Opposition

Name:  Alistair Darling Bio:  Work and Employment Policy in the UK – 6th September 2001 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.13 No.4 in 2001 (pages 95-102)

Bio: Author and Journalist; Former Federal Director, National Party of Australia

Professor of Law and an Acting Commissioner of the NSW Land and Environment Court

South-East Asia specialist, Resident Fellow at the AEI in Washington DC

Leader of the Australian Greens

Political Editor at BuzzFeed

Strategist; Academic – Strategic & Defence Studies, ANU; former defence intelligence official; author, Inside the Wilderness of Mirrors: Australia and the Threat from the Soviet Union in the Cold War and Russia Today [MUP, 2018]

Professor Lex Donaldson is head of the Organizational Theory Research Cluster and a member of the Leadership Team of the School of Management.

Author, Catch Up with the Sun: How I rode through Australia with a short fat horse, two grumpy camels and one feral Kelpie

Name: His Excellency The Honourable Alexander Downer AC Bio: Foreign Minister in the Howard Government and currently Australia’s High Commissioner in London. Terrorism: Winning the Battle of Ideas – 1st November 2006 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.19 No.1 in 2007 (pages 98-107) The Spread of Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Weapons – The Sum of […]

Author & social activist

Attorney General; Special Minister for State

Name:  Michael Duffy Bio:  Author, former editor & publisher Sydney Noir – Prosperity and Crime, 1966 to 1972Michael Duffy is an Australian writer and former editor and publisher. He edited The Independent Monthly from 1993 to 1996. He presented ABC Radio National’s Counterpoint with the late Paul Comrie-Thomson and wrote for News Limited publications and then the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun [...]

Bio: Fellow, Centre for Policy Development; formerly a senior oil, gas and coal industry executive

Name:  Alan Dupont Bio:  Allied or Addicted? Two Views – 19th September 2007 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.19 No.4 in 2007 (pages 47-58) Australian Defence: After the Defence Review – 8th July 2003 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.15 No.2 in 2003 (pages 95-101)

Minister for Home Affairs