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.
Alexander Nalbandov
Name: Alexander Nalbandov Bio: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Georgia Georgia In 2010: Afghanistan, Georgian Foreign Policy & Trade and Investment – 15th November 2010
Jesse Norman
UK Minister for Roads & author of Edmund Burke: The Visionary Who Invented Modern Politics
Louis Nowra
Writer, playwright, screenwriter and librettist & author, most recently, of Kings Cross: A Biography
Clare O’Farrell
Lecturer, School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education, Queensland University of Technology; Author Michel Foucault[Sage Publications, 2005]
Mohamed Abdel Hay El-Orabi
Head of Congress Party, Egypt, former Egyptian Minister for Foreign Affairs
Sev Ozdowski
Director, Equity and Diversity, Western Sydney University and Adjunct Professor, Centre of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney
Maralyn Parker
Columnist, Daily Telegraph; author, My School: What Every Parent Needs to Know
Aaron Patrick
Deputy Editor, The Australian Financial Review & author Credlin & Co., How the Abbott Government Destroyed Itself
Noel Pearson
Name: Noel Pearson Bio: Mabo and the Federal Election Campaign – 20th February 1996 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.8 No.2 in 1996 (pages 22-32)
Patryk Pleskot
Works at Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw; Author of several books and articles
Tanya Plibersek
Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Shadow Minister for Education, Shadow Minister for Women
Anya Poukchanski
Sydney lawyer and former editor of Sydney University’s student papers Honi Soit and The Bull.
Raheel Raza
Award winning writer, professional speaker, diversity consultant, documentary filmmaker and playwright and author of “Their jihad… not my jihad”
Claudia Rosett
Name: Claudia Rosett Bio: Editorial Page Editor: Asian Wall Street Journal Trade and Hong Kong/Taiwan/Southern China – 1st June 1993 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.5 No.2 in 1993 (pages 46-50) Political and Economic Developments in the Asia-Pacific – 5th February 1991 This speech was printed in Sydney Papers Vol.3 No.1 in 1991 (pages…
Adam Rotfeld
Name: Prof Adam Rotfeld Bio: Former Polish Foreign Affairs Minister; Co-Chairman of the Polish-Russian Group for Difficult Matters; Member, Advisory Board for the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Poland and Russia – 28th September 2009
Michael Rubin
Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Senior Lecturer, Center for Civil-Military Relations; Senior Editor, Middle East Quarterly.
John Ruddick
Mortgage Broker; Contested the Liberal Party [NSW] Presidential elections in 2011 & 2012
