The Sydney Institute conducts more than 50 lectures, seminars and panel discussions each year. The following lists contain the past speakers at The Sydney Institute (in order of surname) and the volume in which their speech was published in The Sydney Papers.
Milton Osborne
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…
Taner Akçam
Sociologist and Historian; Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies, Clark University, USA
Anthony Albanese
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)
Barbara Arrowsmith Young
Canadian educationalist and author The Woman Who Changed Her Brain [HarperCollins]
Wendy Bacon
Professor Wendy Bacon is the Director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism and a well known Australian investigative journalist and non-practising lawyer.
Julia Baird
ABC Presenter, journalist and author, Victoria: The Queen – An Intimate Biography of a Woman Who Ruled an Empire
Bruce Ballantine-Jones
Former Member Of The Sydney Anglican Synod & Author Of Inside Sydney
John Barilaro
NSW Deputy Premier, Minister for Regional New South Wales, Minister for Skills, and Minister for Small Business; Leader of The Nationals
Geremie Barmé
Director, Australian Centre on China in the World; Editor, China Story Yearbook 2012: Red Rising, Red Eclipse
Katharine Birbalsingh
UK education reformer, blogger & author of the best selling “To Miss With Love”
Geoffrey Blainey
Eminent Australian historian and author, most recently, of The Story of Australia’s People and The Rise and fall of Ancient Australia
John Blaxland
Co-Author The Secret Cold War: The Official History of ASIO, 1975-1989 [Allen & Unwin, 2016]
Michele Bomford
Author, Beaten Down by Blood – The Battle of Mont St Quentin-Peronne 1918 [Big Sky Publishing]
Latika Bourke
National political reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age & author of From India with Love
Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, FRSL, FBA, FRS, is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian.
George Brandis
Shadow Attorney General; Shadow Minister for the Arts; Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate
Laurens Brinkhorst
Laurens Jan Brinkhorst was elected to the European Parliament in June 1994…
Alison Broinowski
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…
Robert Bryce
Senior Fellow – Energy Policy and the Environment, Manhattan Institute; Author, Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong
Amanda Buckley
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)
Alan Cadman
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)
Edmund Campion
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)
Arye Carmon
Arye Carmon is the Founding President and Senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute.
Bob Carr
Former Premier of NSW & federal Foreign Minister; author Run for Your Life [MUP, 2018]
Michaelia Cash
Minister for Employment, Minister for Women & Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service
Adrian Collette
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)
Peter Cosgrove
General Sir Peter John Cosgrove, AK, MC is a retired senior Australian Army officer and the 26th and current Governor-General of Australia
Alison Crook
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)
Iain Dale
Publisher, broadcaster, founder of the conservative blog Iain Dale’s Dairy; author, Total Politics: The Guide to Political Blogging in the UK 2010-2011
Alexander Dallin
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)
Michael Danby
Member for Melbourne Ports & Parliamentary Secretary to the leader of the Opposition
Alistair Darling
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)
Paul Davey
Bio: Author and Journalist; Former Federal Director, National Party of Australia
Megan Davis
Professor of Law and an Acting Commissioner of the NSW Land and Environment Court
Paul Dibb
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]
Lex Donaldson
Professor Lex Donaldson is head of the Organizational Theory Research Cluster and a member of the Leadership Team of the School of Management.
Heidi Douglas
Author, Catch Up with the Sun: How I rode through Australia with a short fat horse, two grumpy camels and one feral Kelpie
Alexander Downer
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…
Michael Duffy
Name: Michael Duffy Bio: Author, former editor & publisher .vc_custom_1419240516480{background-color: #f9f9f9 !important;} 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...
Ian Dunlop
Bio: Fellow, Centre for Policy Development; formerly a senior oil, gas and coal industry executive
Alan Dupont
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)
