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MARGARET THATCHER’S WORLD – MARTIN FARR, Margaret Thatcher and her team transformed Britain and persevered through years of necessary economic reform. As Western nations find themselves returning to the economic woes of the 1970s, is it …2026-05-07 16:09:03
MYANMAR IN 2026: WHAT IS THE FUTURE? – SEAN TURNELL, Professor Turnell was an Australian advisor to deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi. He was taken into custody in February 2021 soon after the military seized control of the …2026-05-07 15:46:10
REGULATION AND FINANCIAL SERVICES – DANIEL MULINO, The Hon Dr Daniel Mulino MP is Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services. At a time of a growing demographic bubble of retiring Baby Boomers alongside increasingly complex financial personal …2026-05-07 15:42:26
WRITING & BROADCASTING AUSTRALIA: A HISTORY – TONY ABBOTT, Former Australian prime minister, The Hon Tony Abbott, is a man of many parts. Not content to contain his views to speaking, Tony Abbott has now contributed a sales record …2026-05-07 15:42:17
ARE WE THERE AGAIN? AUSTRALIA’S OPEN ECONOMY AND THE LONG RETREAT FROM REFORM – ALEX SANCHEZ, As Australians began to face continuing high inflation and concern over the economy in 2026, The Sydney Institute asked two economic “dries” to deliver papers on how to fix ongoing …2026-05-07 15:42:07
ALEXANDER DOWNER – AUSTRALIA’S LONGEST SERVING FOREIGN MINISTER – TONY PARKINSON, By the time Alexander Downer left office, he had eclipsed Bert Evatt and Richard Casey to become Australia’s longest-serving Foreign Affairs Minister. Over nearly 12 years on the world stage, …2026-05-07 15:41:57
A NEW DEAL FOR AUSTRALIA’S WORKPLACE RELATIONS – AMANDA RISHWORTH, The Hon Amanda Rishworth MP is Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and argues that the case for valuing employees is not just fair – it is a strategic advantage …2026-05-07 15:41:46
THE SYDNEY INSTITUTE ANNUAL DINNER LECTURE – DON FARRELL, The 2025 Sydney Institute lecture was given by Senator The Hon Don Farrell at The Fullerton Hotel Sydney on 18 November. Senator The Hon Don Farrell is Australia’s Special Minister …2026-04-20 12:47:35
INDUSTRY POLICY AND AUSTRALIA’S SOCIAL DEMOCRACY – TIM AYRES, Senator The Hon Tim Ayres is Australia’s Minister for Industry and Innovation and Minister for Science. At a time of increasing concern about the ability of Australia’s manufacturing base to …2026-04-20 12:16:45
ANTISEMITISM AND THE ARTS – A PERSONAL VIEW – TIM STORRIER, The shocking Bondi terrorist attack in January 2026 followed two years of anti-Semitism seeping through the Australian community. At its heart has been the activist targeting of Jewish artists, musicians …2026-04-20 12:14:48
THE LIBERAL PARTY, ANGUS TAYLOR AND A NEW START? – PETER VAN ONSELEN, Dr Peter van Onselen is the Political Editor at Daily Mail Australia and a professor of politics and public policy in the Business School at the University of Western Australia. With …2026-04-20 11:17:15
ANTI-SEMITISM IN AUSTRALIA – AFTER THE BONDI MASSACRE – GEMMA TOGNINI, Sydney’s Bondi Beach massacre during Hannukah celebrations on Sunday 14 December 2025 shocked Australians. That years of anti-Semitism, especially following the atrocities of 7 October 2023, waged against Israeli citizens …2026-04-20 11:09:35
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND THE MIDDLE EAST – DANIELLE PLETKA, US involvement in the Middle East and its struggle against Islamic terrorists has engulfed US foreign policy over numerous decades. Especially since the attacks on the New York Twin Towers …2026-04-20 11:02:05
US MIDDLE EAST STRATEGY AMID REGIONAL INSTABILITY – DANA STROUL, Dana Stroul is Director of Research & Shelly and Michael Kassen Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. She rejoined the Institute after serving from 2021–2023 as …2026-04-20 10:23:45
HOW TO RESTORE AUSTRALIA’S ECONOMIC PROSPERITY – DIMITRI BURSHTEIN, As Australians began to face continuing high inflation and concern over the economy in 2026, The Sydney Institute asked two economic “dries” to deliver papers on how to fix ongoing …2026-04-20 10:21:20
CATHY FREEMAN AND THE OLYMPIC CAULDRON – WHAT NEARLY WENT WRONG – ROBERT IRONSIDE, It was truly a global engineering moment. Selected to light the cauldron flame at the Sydney Olympics, Australian athlete Cathy Freeman recalled how the event director was speaking to her …2026-04-20 10:00:33
AUSTRALIA’S ENERGY FUTURE: OUR EMPEROR-HAS-NO-CLOTHES MOMENT – CRISTINA TALACKO, Where is Australia’s energy policy headed? Evidence suggests Australia will not meet all of its Net Zero targets with delays in the investment in renewables. Cristina Talacko is an Australian …2026-04-20 09:57:46
AUSTRALIA’S CONTROVERSIAL COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF SIR THOMAS BLAMEY – BRENT TAYLOR, General Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander in Chief of Australian Military Forces during World War II, was our highest-ranking soldier and arguably our most controversial. Blamey was an abrasive and shrewd …2026-04-20 09:56:09
ANTI-SEMITISM IN AUSTRALIA – AFTER THE BONDI MASSACRE – ARSEN OSTROVSKY, Sydney’s Bondi Beach massacre during Hannukah celebrations on Sunday 14 December 2025 shocked Australians. That years of anti-Semitism, especially following the atrocities of 7 October 2023, waged against Israeli citizens …2026-04-20 09:53:51
A STEP TO THE RIGHT: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALEXANDER DOWNER – ALEXANDER DOWNER, By the time Alexander Downer left office, he had eclipsed Bert Evatt and Richard Casey to become Australia’s longest-serving Foreign Affairs Minister. Over nearly 12 years on the world stage, …2026-04-16 14:29:06
CAN THE FEDERAL BUDGET RESTORE AUSTRALIA’S ECONOMIC PROSPECTS? – WARREN HOGAN, Economist Warren Hogan, is the Chief economic adviser at Judo Bank and managing director & founder of EQ Economics. In his view, the Federal budget will be set against the …2026-03-10 15:41:15
TAX AND SUPERANNUATION – CASSANDRA GOLDIE, In 2025, Labor set about is about to change tax rates on superannuation savings. Labor’s proposal plans to double the earnings tax on superannuation balances above $3 million – from …2025-12-17 13:30:30
FROM FRANCIS TO LEO: PROPHECY IS ALWAYS DIFFICULT – GREG CRAVEN, The Pope, as head of the Catholic Church, in a global world where Catholics make up 1.4 billion of Christianity’s two billion followers – the largest faith in the world …2025-12-17 13:13:09
FROM FRANCIS TO LEO – MONICA DOUMIT, The Pope, as head of the Catholic Church, in a global world where Catholics make up 1.4 billion of Christianity’s two billion followers – the largest faith in the world …2025-12-17 12:50:29
LIBERAL ARTS AND AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLS – THE WAY FORWARD – DALLAS MCINERNEY, Western society today is being challenged by an inability to accept genuine debate and discussion. An inability to accept that Western traditions have a legitimate place in public policy. The …2025-12-17 12:43:06
MALCOLM FRASER: A PERSONAL REFLECTION – GERARD HENDERSON, Malcolm Fraser was Australia’s fourth longest serving prime minister who won three elections.  A politician of considerable ability and strength, he was involved in the downfall of Liberal Party prime …2025-12-17 11:53:41
PAUL HASLUCK – LAUNCHED BY TONY ABBOTT – ANNE HENDERSON, The Hon Paul Hasluck was many things – journalist, public servant, author/historian, academic, Member of Parliament, Minister of the Crown, Governor-General of Australia and a published poet. In the 1940s, …2025-11-03 16:41:10
LAUNCH OF PAUL HASLUCK – TONY ABBOTT, The Hon Paul Hasluck was many things – journalist, public servant, author/historian, academic, Member of Parliament, Minister of the Crown, Governor-General of Australia and a published poet. In the 1940s, …2025-11-03 16:26:18
AFGHANISTAN, BEN ROBERTS-SMITH AND THE BATTLE OF SHAH WALI KOT – AARON PATRICK, Thousands of articles and many books have been written about the war in Afghanistan and the way the special forces fought, along with the saga of Ben Roberts-Smith and his …2025-10-29 16:18:07
THE CHALLENGE FOR AUSTRALIA: RAISING OUR COMPETITIVE EDGE – DAVE SHARMA, In a timely address to The Sydney Institute on Wednesday 15 October 2025, Senator Dave Sharma, Senator for New South Wales and former diplomat, examined Australia’s shrinking competitive advantage since …2025-10-15 16:12:49
THE EARLY CHRISTIANS & LESSONS FOR TODAY – GREG SHERIDAN, The first Christians confronted a cultural environment vastly more hostile than today’s. They had no powerful backers, very little money and numbered no more than a few hundred. Yet they …2025-10-08 16:09:50
THE GREAT UNBINDING: NON-COMPETES, FREEDOM AND THE FUTURE OF COMPETITION – ANDREW LEIGH, The Hon Dr Andrew Leigh is the Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities & Treasury. On Monday 16 September 2025, Dr Leigh addressed The Sydney Institute to discuss the increased …2025-09-16 16:02:12
1000+ DAYS OF WAR: HOW UKRAINE AND THE WORLD HAVE CHANGED – PETER SHMIGEL, As a writer and journalist working in Ukraine, Pete Shmigel has witnessed and chronicled the military, political, social and psychological changes resulting from Russia’s three and a half year old …2025-08-25 11:04:12
SURVIVING CHINA, IMPRISONMENT AND INJUSTICE – CHENG LEI, Journalist Cheng Lei spent more than three gruelling years in a Beijing prison after being wrongly accused of espionage. In August 2020, Cheng Lei was the precise and polished anchor …2025-08-19 15:33:40
TURNING AROUND THE TITANIC – THE COALITION’S PLAN TO SOLVE AUSTRALIA’S RED TAPE EMERGENCY – ANDREW BRAGG, According to The Australian, “slashing just one per cent of the red tape that is constraining Australian businesses could generate more than $1bn in economic growth, according to a Business …2025-08-18 15:26:20
NET ZERO & AUSTRALIAN SOVEREIGNTY – ED CAVANOUGH, Between the catastrophists and the sceptics, modern day life is now dominated by national attempts to move from emissions generating fossil fuels to renewables or nuclear power. But as power …2025-08-13 15:10:23
NET ZERO: TWO VIEWS – AIDAN MORRISON, Between the catastrophists and the sceptics, modern day life is now dominated by national attempts to move from emissions generating fossil fuels to renewables or nuclear power. But as power …2025-08-13 15:04:19
WESTERN AUSTRALIA PLANNING REFORM: HOW WE’VE TAKEN ON NIMBYS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS JOHN CAREY, What is it about Western Australia? Do they do things differently there? Once the forgotten west of our vast continent, and almost not part of the Australian Federation, today the …2025-07-30 10:46:44
BEATING ROMMEL AT EL ALAMEIN: THE ROLE OF AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND IN THE DEFEAT OF THE AXIS IN NORTH AFRICA – TOM GILLING, Tom Gilling is a war historian and most recently author of Start Digging You Bastards! Australian and New Zealand forces’ desperate battle with Rommel and the Axis at El Alamein. On …2025-07-28 15:01:25
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COALITION TURMOIL, THE LIBERAL PARTY – AFTER THE MAY ELECTION – JOHN ROSKAM, The results of the May 2025 federal election have opened up serious challenges for the Liberal Party opposition – not least of all the end of the coalition arrangements with …2025-07-23 15:34:23
50 YEARS OF VIETNAMESE SETTLEMENT DOWN UNDER: A BETTER AUSTRALIA AND ASPIRATIONAL DEMOCRATIC VIETNAM – SYDNEY NGUYEN, On 30 April 1975, the democratic government of South Vietnam collapsed as the North Vietnamese army captured Saigon. Under North Vietnamese control, thousands of South Vietnamese citizens were arrested and put …2025-07-23 12:35:00
ELECTION 2025 – THE PARTIES, THE ISSUES, THE PROSPECTS – PRU GOWARD, With just three weeks of campaigning to go, The Sydney Institute invited The Hon Pru Goward, a director of Bespoken Consulting and former Minister for Housing and Darrin Barnett, media …2025-07-23 10:24:32
REMEMBERING ELIZABETH HARROWER – HELEN TRINCA, After publishing four books that earned the admiration of Patrick White, Shirley Hazzard and Christina Stead, Elizabeth Harrower published no more novels. She faded from the literary landscape, until being …2025-07-21 17:02:49
REMEMBERING ELIZABETH HARROWER – GEOFFREY LEHMANN, After publishing four books that earned the admiration of Patrick White, Shirley Hazzard and Christina Stead, Elizabeth Harrower published no more novels. She faded from the literary landscape, until being …2025-07-21 10:32:58
TAX AND SUPERANNUATION – ROSS GREENWOOD, In 2025, Labor set about is about to change tax rates on superannuation savings. Labor’s proposal plans to double the earnings tax on superannuation balances above $3 million – from …2025-07-16 09:03:12
FROM OBLIVION TO RESURRECTION – GOLSTEIN LESSONS – TIM WILSON, The Hon Tim Wilson is the former Member for Goldstein who was swept out of office with a swathe of Liberal MPs at the 2022 election by the Teal tide. …2025-06-19 14:36:33
CHINA’S CULTURAL REVOLUTION REVISTED – LINDA JAIVIN, In 1966, with the words “Bombard the Headquarters!” Mao Zedong unleashed the full, violent force of a movement that he called the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. By the time he …2025-06-16 11:50:33
JOHN ROBERTSON: LIBERAL OF THE PEOPLE – WILLIAM COLEMAN, Australia’s development has so often been about land – acquiring it, stealing it, buying it, developing it, depending on its fundamental importance to life, revenue and identity. For the European …2025-06-10 15:05:16
COALITION TURMOIL, THE LIBERAL PARTY – AFTER THE MAY ELECTION PARNELL McGUINNESS, The results of the May 2025 federal election have opened up serious challenges for the Liberal Party opposition – not least of all the end of the coalition arrangements with …2025-05-28 14:20:14
FEARLESS BEATRICE FAUST: SEX, FEMINISM AND BODY POLITICS – JUDITH BRETT, As a modern-day Professor Henry Higgins might have said, Beatrice Faust is the voice who helped put today’s women in your life. “Beatrice Faust,” said Helen Garner, “is not scared …2025-05-26 14:25:44
50 YEARS OF VIETNAMESE SETTLEMENT DOWN UNDER: A BETTER AUSTRALIA AND ASPIRATIONAL DEMOCRATIC VIETNAM -TUONG QUANG LUU, On 30 April 1975, the democratic government of South Vietnam collapsed as the North Vietnamese army captured Saigon. Under North Vietnamese control, thousands of South Vietnamese citizens were arrested and put …2025-05-19 13:53:55
AUSTRALIA’S PANDEMIC: ASSESSING OUR ECONOMIC AND PUBLIC HEALTH RESPONSES – RICHARD HOLDEN, Richard Holden is Professor of Economics at UNSW Business School and President of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Co-author, with Stephen Hamilton, of Australia’s Pandemic Exceptionalism. On Wednesday …2025-05-14 12:25:19
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AFTER 100 DAYS: TWO VIEWS – JAMES MORROW, On Wednesday 30 April 2025, The Sydney Institute held a discussion of the Trump administration at the 100-day mark. After a breathtaking number of executive orders and administrative targeting of …2025-04-30 11:39:40
TRUMP @ 100 DAYS – IN COMMAND AND OUT OF CONTROL – BRUCE WOLPE, On Wednesday 30 April 2025, The Sydney Institute held a discussion of the Trump administration at the 100-day mark. After a breathtaking number of executive orders and administrative targeting of …2025-04-30 11:23:52
FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2025 – TWO VIEWS – MICHAEL KROGER, As the federal election campaign for 2025 came to an end, polls showed Labor comfortably ahead but predictions still uncertain about a minority governement outcome given the slim majority Labor …2025-04-24 12:19:42
FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2025 – TWO VIEWS – MARY EASSON, As the federal election campaign for 2025 came to an end, polls showed Labor comfortably ahead but predictions still uncertain about a minority government outcome given the slim majority Labor …2025-04-24 11:55:37
THE MACKERRAS PENDULUM – AND ME – MALCOLM MACKERRAS, For decades, Malcolm MacKerras’ electoral pendulum has been part of predicting the outcomes of Australia’s elections. His pendulum for the federal election of 2025 was published along with his 600 …2025-04-23 11:16:45
TRUMP’S AMERICA: WHAT’S HAPPENING? – ADAM CREIGHTON, Adam Creighton is an Australian journalist who returned to Australia in 2025 after a stint as the Washington correspondent for The Australian. Creighton was previously the economics editor. He has also …2025-04-14 10:46:29
ELECTION 2025 – THE PARTIES, THE ISSUES, THE PROSPECTS – DARRIN BARNETT, With just three weeks of campaigning to go, The Sydney Institute invited The Hon Pru Goward, Director, Bespoken Consulting and former Minister for Housing and Darrin Barnett, media and government …2025-04-07 10:26:41
THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF AUSCHWITZ – RICHARD MARLES, On the anniversary of the eightieth year since the liberation of the Auschwitz death and extermination camp under the Nazis of World War II, Australia’s Defence Minister delivered a powerful …2025-03-26 10:26:11
MATTERS OF THE HEART – MY STORY – JACINTA NAMPIJINPA PRICE, In 2025, Senator Jacinto Nampijinpa Price released her memoir – Matters of The Heart. It is a story that is honest, raw and at times heartbreaking, and a deeply personal reflection …2025-03-26 10:19:16
THE DAY AFTER THE END OF THE GAZA WAR: NEW OPPORTUNITIES – EHUD YAARI, Ehud Yaari is an Israel-based Lafer international fellow of The Washington Institute. He has been a Middle East commentator for Israel’s Channel Twelve television since 1975 and is former associate …2025-03-26 10:05:22
THE MENZIES ASCENDENCY BOOK LAUNCH – PAUL KELLY, In 2025, the Robert Menzies Institute published the third volume in its Menzies series – titled The Menzies Ascendency – Fortune, Stability, Progress 1954–1961. The Sydney launch took place at …2025-03-25 16:58:59
FROM SERVANT TO PARTNER – THE AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC SERVICE – PATRICK GORMAN, The Hon Patrick Gorman MP is the Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister, Assistant Minister to the Attorney-General and Assistant Minister for the Public Service. As arguments over the size …2025-03-25 16:53:28
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UNITY IN AUTONOMY LAUNCH – JOHN ANDERSON, August 2024 marked 80 years since Robert Menzies brought together the dysfunctional groups of non Labor political associations and the remnants of the United Australia Party to found a new …2025-03-25 15:40:05
UNITY IN AUTONOMY LAUNCH – JOHN HOWARD, August 2024 marked 80 years since Robert Menzies brought together the dysfunctional groups of non Labor political associations and the remnants of the United Australia Party to found a new …2025-03-25 15:33:10
UNITY IN AUTONOMY – THE CONCEPTION OF THE LIBERAL PARTY – ZACHARY GORMAN, August 2024 marked 80 years since Robert Menzies brought together the dysfunctional groups of non Labor political associations and the remnants of the United Australia Party to found a new …2025-03-25 15:23:53
PRIME MINISTER JAMES SCULLIN, THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND LABOR SPLIT – MICHAEL EASSON, Sworn in as prime minister in the week of the Wall Street Crash, in October 1929, James Scullin was bewildered and politically devoured by the economic and sociopolitical turmoil of …2025-03-25 15:16:22
THE GOVERNANCE OF DIGITAL PLATFORMS – MICHELLE ROWLAND, In 2024, The Sydney Institute’s Annual Dinner Lecture was given by The Hon Michelle Rowland MP, Minister for Communications in the Albanese Labor Government. Her lecture captured thinking around the …2025-03-25 15:03:57
WHY MAJORITY GOVERNMENT IS IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST – AND THE TEALS ARE NOT – PAUL FLETCHER, As Australians prepared to go to the polls in 2025, the chances of minority government after the federal election seemed real according to the polls. The increasing number of independents …2025-03-25 14:46:03
SHIRLEY HAZZARD AND ELIZABETH HARROWER: TWO WRITERS & FOUR DECADES OF CORRESPONDENCE – SUSAN WYNDHAM, Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower are two giants of Australian and international literature who were brought together by Shirley Hazzard’s mother who became Elizabeth Harrower’s friend. In a long and …2025-03-25 14:45:39
WHAT IS IRAN UP TO IN THE MIDDLE EAST? – MATTHEW LEVITTMatthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute and director of its Jeanette and Eli Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. From 2005 to early 2007, he …2025-03-25 14:45:26
FOUNDING THE LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA – HOW WOMEN MADE A DIFFERENCE – ANNE HENDERSON, August 2024 marked 80 years since Robert Menzies brought together the dysfunctional groups of non Labor political associations and the remnants of the United Australia Party to found a new …2025-03-25 14:44:49
REMAKING THE AUSTRALIAN DREAM – ALLEGRA SPENDER, Allegra Spender was elected as a teal MP representing the electorate of Wentworth in Sydney at the 2022 federal election. Her election ended a long history of the seat being …2025-03-25 14:36:41
 THE MENZIES ASCENDENCY BOOK LAUNCH – MICHAEL KIRBY, In 2025, the Robert Menzies Institute published the third volume in its Menzies series – titled The Menzies Ascendency – Fortune, Stability, Progress 1954–1961. The Sydney launch took place at …2025-03-25 14:23:31
SOCIAL COHESION IN AUSTRALIA – THE CHALLENGE – JULIAN LEESER, Australia prides itself on its multicultural and socially cohesive nature. But in the months following the October 7 massacres in Israel, intolerance, even hatred, has seen a disturbing level of …2025-03-25 14:14:29
SHIRLEY HAZZARD AND ELIZABETH HARROWER: THE LETTERS – BRIGITTA OLUBAS, Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower are two giants of Australian and international literature who were brought together by Shirley Hazzard’s mother who became Elizabeth Harrower’s friend. In a long and …2025-03-25 14:04:06
VALUES FIRST: AUSTRALIA IN THE WORLD – DAVID COLEMAN, The Hon David Coleman MP is the Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, appointed to the position by Peter Dutton in late January 2025. In the Morrison Government, David Coleman served …2025-03-25 13:58:25
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS IN THE LEAD UP TO THE 2025 ELECTION – JOE HILDEBRAND, As Australians waited to find out whether the prime minister would call an early federal election in 2025 or go his full term till May, opinions varied on what the …2025-03-25 13:41:44
THE STATE OF AUSTRALIAN POLITICS AHEAD OF THE 2025 FEDERAL ELECTION – FREYA LEACH, As Australians waited to find out whether the prime minister would call an early federal election in 2025 or go his full term till May, opinions varied on what the …2025-03-25 13:28:26
STRONG LEADERSHIP IN A DANGEROUS WORLD – JAMES PATERSON, Senator James Paterson, a Liberal senator for Victoria, is the Shadow Minister for Home Affairs and the Shadow Minister for Cyber Security. At a time of increasing concern over cyber …2025-03-25 12:12:11
THE CRONULLA RIOTS – THE INSIDE STORY – CARL SCULLYIn The Cronulla Riots – The Untold Story, Mark Goodwin and Craig Scully, retired NSW Police Assistant Commissioner and former NSW Police Minister respectively, explore what really happened as opposed …2025-03-25 11:50:03
THE CRONULLA RIOTS – THE INSIDE STORY – MARK GOODWIN, In The Cronulla Riots – The Untold Story, Mark Goodwin and Craig Scully, retired NSW Police Assistant Commissioner and former NSW Police Minister respectively, explore what really happened as opposed …2025-03-25 11:19:40
BEHIND THE BADGE – NICK KALDAS, Nick Kaldas was born in Egypt in 1958 and moved with his family to Australia in 1969. He served in the NSW Police for 35 years, the last ten as …2025-03-24 09:27:43
JACKSON POLLOCK, THE BLUE POLES CONTROVERSY AND THE WHITLAM LABOR GOVERNMENT – TOM McILROY, It is now more than half a century since the Whitlam Government purchased the famous Jackson Pollock painting Blue Poles for what was considered a huge sum of money at …2025-03-19 08:52:20
ROBERT MENZIES, BERT EVATT AND THE LABOR PARTY SPLIT –  ANNE HENDERSON, In 2025, the Robert Menzies Institute published the third volume in its Menzies series – titled The Menzies Ascendency – Fortune, Stability, Progress 1954–1961. The Sydney launch took place at …2025-03-19 08:37:47
HOW MENZIES MAINTAINED HIS ASCENDENCY – ZACHARY GORMAN, In 2025, the Robert Menzies Institute published the third volume in its Menzies series – titled The Menzies Ascendency – Fortune, Stability, Progress 1954–1961. The Sydney launch took place at …2025-03-19 08:29:39
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THE AUSTRALIAN SKILLS CHALLENGE, A belief in the benefits of secure employment and quality education and training, as well as a commitment to fairness and equal opportunity, led Brendan O’Connor to begin his career …2024-10-03 13:32:09
INFLUENCING CLIVE JAMES AND ROBERT HUGHES – THE POET CHESTER GRAHAM – GEOFFREY LEHMANN, Geoffrey Lehmann, prize winning poet, author and tax lawyer, was a Chester Graham admirer from afar having started at Sydney University around the same time as Clive James. Writes Lehmann, …2024-10-03 13:32:07
THE BUDGET, THE LIBERAL PARTY AND WOMEN – JANE HUME, Senator The Hon Jane Hume is the Shadow Minister for Finance and the Public Service. She has served in a number of Ministerial roles, including most recently as the Minister …2024-10-03 13:32:06
THE ABC AND OTHERS VERSUS NEVILLE WRAN – MILTON COCKBURN, Neville Wran is the most electorally successful Labor premier in NSW history. In 13 years leading the Labor Party in Australia’s largest state, Wran did not lose an election or …2024-10-03 13:32:05
FROM HAMBURGER STORE TO GLOBAL ICON – THE STORY OF McDONALDS – PETER RITCHIE, The McDonalds food business is very connected to its marketplace and incorporates many readily transferrable business fundamentals.  Many underestimate the size and complexity of the simple hamburger joint. But look …2024-10-03 13:32:05
THE US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION – TWO VIEWS – BRUCE WOLPE, With the US Presidential election just weeks away, The Sydney Institute hosted a discussion on where it all was headed. Bruce Wolpe, Senior Fellow (non-resident) at the United States Studies …2024-10-03 13:32:04
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS IN THE LEAD UP TO THE FEDERAL ELECTION – TWO VIEWS GEMMA TOGNINI, In 2024, Australians appeared deeply divided with the two-party system reflecting widespread discontent. Independents and minor parties were affecting the preferential system as never before. Issues, however, seemed to be …2024-10-03 13:32:04
HAS THE LIBERAL PARTY LOST ITS TRADITIONAL BASE? TWO VIEWS – JASON FALINSKI, The rise of the Teal independents in unseating long held Liberal MPs in once known as “blue ribbon” seats in the federal election of 2022 has given rise to questions …2024-10-03 13:32:04
MIGRATION WITH MEANING: ENSURING EVERY AUSTRALIAN BENEFITS FROM MIGRATION – MATT THISTLETHWAITE, Australia’s immigration intake in 2024 came under attack for being too high amidst a climate of housing shortages and infrastructure costs. For decades Australia benefitted greatly from its immigration program …2024-10-03 13:32:03
WHY AUSTRALIA SHOULD CONSIDER NUCLEAR POWER – TONY GREY, In 2024, Opposition leader Peter Dutton has opened up a discussion – indeed a debate – on Australia introducing nuclear energy as part of its zero carbon emissions targets. Should …2024-10-03 13:32:02
THE US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION – TWO VIEWS – TOM SWITZER, With the US Presidential election just weeks away, The Sydney Institute hosted a discussion on where it all was headed. Bruce Wolpe, Senior Fellow (non-resident) at the United States Studies …2024-10-03 13:32:02
A FUTURE MADE IN AUSTRALIA – TIM AYRES, Reshuffled in Anthony Albanese’s changes to his ministry, Senator The Hon Tim Ayres took charge of over $22 billion in government investment in new industries for a sustainable future. In announcing …2024-10-03 13:32:00
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS IN THE LEAD UP TO THE FEDERAL ELECTION – TWO VIEWS  – PETER VAN ONSELEN, In 2024, Australians appeared deeply divided with the two-party system reflecting widespread discontent. Independents and minor parties were affecting the preferential system as never before. Issues, however, seemed to be …2024-10-03 13:31:55
THE PAST FOUR DECADES: REFLECTIONS ON THE AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY – MICHAEL STUTCHBURY, On 22 July 2014, Michael Stutchbury announced he would be stepping down as editor-in-chief of The Australian Financial Review after 13 years at the helm. He began at the AFR in 1982, rising to …2024-10-03 13:31:48
THE ABC AND OTHERS VERSUS NEVILLE WRAN – MILTON COCKBURN, Neville Wran is the most electorally successful Labor premier in NSW history. In 13 years leading the Labor Party in Australia’s largest state, Wran did not lose an election or …2024-10-03 13:31:41
SUSPECT CONVICTIONS AND A CRIMINAL CASES REVIEW COMMISSION – MICHAEL KIRBY, Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG is an international jurist, educator and former judge. It is his view that an Australian Criminal Cases Review Commission is needed due to the number …2024-10-03 13:31:35
THE IRAN-ISRAEL WAR COMES OUT OF THE SHADOWS – BEHNAM BEN TALEBLU, As a senior fellow at Federation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), Behnam Ben Taleblu focuses on Iranian security and political issues. Leveraging his subject-matter expertise and native Farsi skills, …2024-10-03 13:31:30
ISRAEL AT WAR – GAZA, LEBANON & IRAN – PETER LERNER, Peter Lerner is the Director General of the International Division in the Histadrut, Israel’s General Federation of Labour.  Before taking up this position he served for many years as chief …2024-10-03 13:31:23
NUCLEAR ENERGY AND AUSTRALIA – THE CASE AGAINST – MAX DOUGLASS, In 2024, Opposition leader Peter Dutton has opened up a discussion – indeed a debate – on Australia introducing nuclear energy as part of its zero carbon emissions targets. Should …2024-10-03 13:31:16
HAS THE LIBERAL PARTY LOST ITS TRADITIONAL BASE? – MICHAEL SEXTON, The rise of the Teal independents in unseating long held Liberal MPs in once known as “blue ribbon” seats in the federal election of 2022 has given rise to questions …2024-10-03 13:31:11
TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN MODERN POLITICS – MARK DREYFUS, Transparency in government is an issue close to The Hon Mark Dreyfus’ heart. As Attorney General in the Albanese Labor government, he has been quietly working to increase the government’s …2024-10-03 13:14:24
ANTI-SEMITISM ON CAMPUS – THEN AND NOW – TIMOTHY LYNCH, Following the October 7 Hamas invasion of southern Israel and the atrocities committed on the day, pro-Hamas/Palestinian demonstrations and protest about Israel has engulfed the Western world especially on university …2024-10-03 12:51:32
ANTI-SEMITISM ON THE CAMPUS: THEN AND NOW – FREYA LEACH, Following the October 7 Hamas invasion of southern Israel and the atrocities committed on the day, pro-Hamas/Palestinian demonstrations and protest about Israel has engulfed the Western world especially on university …2024-10-03 12:31:18
ANTI-SEMITISM ON CAMPUS – THEN AND NOW – JOE GERSH, Following the October 7 Hamas invasion of southern Israel and the atrocities committed on the day, pro-Hamas/Palestinian demonstrations and protest about Israel has engulfed the Western world especially on university …2024-10-03 12:14:39
LIFE AFTER BOOK OF LIFE – DEBORAH CONWAY, Deborah Conway is one of Australia’s most iconic singers. In her recently released Book of Life, she exposes the world of 1980s post-punk. Her career took off from Melbourne to national …2024-10-03 11:53:08
TRUTH-TELLING AND POST-COLONIAL CRITIQUES, Nicholas Hasluck’s book Print and Prize: Travels in the Commonwealth (Connor Court Publishing) provides an account of his time as Chair of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. In post-colonial discussions – …2024-06-05 16:34:02
AFTER THE VOICE REFERENDUM: TWO VIEWS, Frank Brennan SJ, a supporter of the Voice concept, now believes the 2023 referendum was a disaster. He also believes that many Australians still hope there may be a prospect of …2024-06-05 16:29:51
LESSONS FROM OUR FAILURE TO BUILD A CONSTITUTIONAL BRIDGE IN THE 2023 REFERENDUM, Frank Brennan SJ, a supporter of the Voice concept, now believes the 2023 referendum was a disaster. He also believes that many Australians still hope there may be a prospect of …2024-06-05 16:22:55
THE BATTLE OF KAPYONG: AUSTRALIA’S DECISIVE ROLE IN THE KOREAN WAR, April 1951. After ten months of fighting, the Korean War hung in the balance. A single Australian battalion, backed by Kiwi gunners and American tanks, had dug in on a …2024-06-05 16:16:00
THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL WAR AGAINST ISRAEL, Natasha Hausdorff is a barrister in London and a Director of UK Lawyers for Israel. She holds law degrees from Oxford and Tel Aviv Universities and was a Fellow in …2024-06-05 16:06:14
REMEMBERING FRANK KNOPFELMACHER, With the launch of Frank Knopfelmacher – Selected Writings, the life and work of one of Australia’s leading anti-communists was celebrated in Melbourne and Sydney. In 1965, Frank Knopfelmacher, Czech …2024-06-05 16:02:28
REMEMBERING FRANK KNOPFELMACHER, With the launch of Frank Knopfelmacher – Selected Writings, the life and work of one of Australia’s leading anti-communists was celebrated in Melbourne and Sydney. In 1965, Frank Knopfelmacher, Czech …2024-06-05 15:58:57
THE HOUSING CRISIS – THE COALITION’S APPROACH, There has been much said about Australia’s housing crisis in 2024. But there are many ideas floating as to how best to solve the problem – build better; build faster; …2024-06-05 15:48:25
THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF ECONOMICS, In his latest book The Shortest History of Economics, The Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities & Treasury & Assistant Minister for Employment tackles a big …2024-06-05 15:32:37
 AUSTRALIA’S TRADE AGENDA – INCLUDING TRADE WITH CHINA, Since coming to government, Australia’s Trade Minister Senator The Hon Don Farrell has worked hard to re-establish Australia’s good trading relations with China. Acknowledging that, in the case of China, …2024-06-05 15:27:12
THE FUTURE OF AUSTRALIA’S DEFENCE,  The Hon Richard Marles is Australia’s Minister for Defence. On his watch, since the federal election of 2021 and the election of the Albanese Labor government, the historic trilateral security …2024-06-05 15:23:02
WHY IT IS DIFFICULT TO MAKE CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT, The Hon Rose Jackson has a lot on her ministerial plate – responsibility for some of NSW’s biggest concerns. In addition to housing, water and homelessness, Ms Jackson also is …2024-06-05 15:16:53
 THE ALBANESE GOVERNMENT’S IR LEGISLATION: TWO VIEWS, The Albanese Government’s 2024 industrial relations reform legislation generated tension with employers who saw it as a hand shake with the union movement. Others saw it as a long overdue …2024-06-05 15:10:59
THE ALBANESE GOVERNMENT’S IR LEGISLATION: TWO VIEWS, The Albanese Government’s 2024 industrial relations reform legislation generated tension with employers who saw it as a hand shake with the union movement. Others saw it as a long overdue …2024-06-05 15:02:30
LOOKING AHEAD TO THE POST GAZA WAR ERA, In Sydney, on a visit from Israel, Ehud Yaari, author and commentator on Middle East politics, addressed The Sydney Institute on Wednesday 27 March 2024. Ehud Yaari, who spent years …2024-06-05 14:56:22
DID WINSTON CHURCHILL HAVE A BIPOLAR DISORDER?, Mental health may well have been behind the success of many modern leaders. It is the professional assessment of Professor Gordon Parker, that Winston Churchill was one such leader and …2024-06-05 14:51:11
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THE COST-OF-LIVING CRISIS – AS SEEN FROM THE ELECTORATE OF FOWLER, For most Australians in 2024, the cost-of-living crisis is their major current concern. While inflation has tipped down slightly, continued high interest rates and high prices for power, groceries and other …2024-03-04 00:00:03
THE ISRAEL-HAMAS CONFLICT: AN AUSTRALIAN VIEW, Senator Dave Sharma was Australia’s ambassador to Israel from 2013-2017. He previously served as head of the International Division of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. His appointment to …2024-02-19 00:00:26
ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN AND RUSSIA, Alexander Lapshin is an Israeli based, Soviet Union born journalist and travel blogger specialising in international relations, military conflicts, human rights and travelling. He is also a former political prisoner …2024-02-12 00:00:53
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS 2024 – JOE HILDEBRAND, As Australians came out of their holiday season for 2024, it was increasingly clear that the cost of living had become a nagging sore for the federal government of Anthony …2024-02-07 00:00:46
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS 2024 – JENNIFER HEWETT, As Australians came out of their holiday season for 2024, it was increasingly clear that the cost of living had become a nagging sore for the federal government of Anthony …2024-02-07 00:00:40
REMEMBERING GEORGE PELL – FRANK BRENNAN, Cardinal George Pell died in Rome on 10 January 2023. After years of fighting the false charges laid by Victoria Police, and subsequently found guilty by a Victorian court, George …2024-01-24 00:00:39
REMEMBERING GEORGE PELL – GERARD HENDERSON, Cardinal George Pell died in Rome on 10 January 2023. After years of fighting the charges laid by Victoria Police, and subsequently found guilty by a Victorian court, George Pell …2024-01-24 00:00:02
ISRAEL AND THE US SINCE 7 OCTOBER, Danielle Pletka is a distinguished senior fellow in foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where she focuses on US foreign policy generally and the Middle …2023-12-13 00:00:00
THE POLITICS OF FRANK MOORHOUSE, Moorhouse was also one of Australia’s foremost public intellectuals; his contribution to Australian cultural, social and political life was prolific, erudite and astoundingly broad. Throughout his career he moved between …2023-12-05 00:00:08
REMEMBERING BRIAN HARRADINE – KEITH HARVEY, Brian Harradine was an Independent Senator for Tasmania from 1975-2004, and a former Labor stalwart and trade union official. Expelled from the ALP before entering parliament, he showed just what …2023-11-29 00:00:43
REMEMBERING BRIAN HARRADINE – TONY ABBOTT, Brian Harradine was an Independent Senator for Tasmania from 1975-2004, and a former Labor stalwart and trade union official. Expelled from the ALP before entering parliament, he showed just what …2023-11-29 00:00:29
AUSTRALIA AFTER THE 2023 REFERENDUM – ANNE TWOMEY, The issue of the referendum on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament consumed discussion across Australia for ten months and more leading to the referendum on Saturday 14 October 2023 at …2023-11-27 00:00:55
AUSTRALIA AFTER THE 2023 REFERENDUM – PAUL KELLY, The issue of the referendum on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament consumed discussion across Australia for ten months and more leading to the referendum on Saturday 14 October 2023 at …2023-11-27 00:00:18
MY LIFE AS AN AUSTRALIAN JEW IN 2023, Born in a displaced persons’ camp two years after the end of the Holocaust, Michael Gawenda spent his childhood and teenage years in a left-wing non-Zionist Jewish youth group in …2023-11-20 00:00:36
HOUSING AFFORDABILITY: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? – JOE GERSH, In 2023, housing affordability surfaced as the issue of the moment – baby boomers knew nothing like it. The question seemed to have become whether Australians were locked in an …2023-11-14 00:00:07
HOUSING AFFORDABILITY: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? – LINDA SCOTT, In 2023, housing affordability surfaced as the issue of the moment – baby boomers knew nothing like it. The question seemed to have become whether Australians were locked in an …2023-11-14 00:00:00
BUILDING A SECURE FUTURE FOR AUSTRALIA’S SUBURBS, The Hon Ed Husic is the Minister for Industry and Science. As such he has a strong belief that renewed manufacturing in technological and advanced industries holds the key not …2023-11-06 00:00:10
BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE OF NEW SOUTH WALES, The Sydney Institute Annual Dinner address in 2023 was given by the premier of New South Wales, The Hon Chris Minns who was sworn in as premier on 28 March …2023-10-31 00:00:20
WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST – 7 OCTOBER AND BEYOND, Elliott Abrams is senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Washington, DC. He served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national …2023-10-17 00:00:51
LIFE SO FULL OF PROMISE: FURTHER BIOGRAPHIES OF AUSTRALIA’S LOST GENERATION,  Historian Ross McMullin is the author of numerous books and is best known for his work on Australia’s famous fighting general Pompey Elliott. In more recent times, Ross McMullin has …2023-10-11 00:00:50
THE COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS: FROM ALLEGIANCE TO COMMONWEALTH CHARTER VALUES, In 2009, Justice Kirby was appointed a member of a high-level group tasked with identifying the “common values and aspirations” of this unique body.  Chaired by Tun Abdullah Badawi (past …2023-10-09 00:00:49
THE VOICE TO PARLIAMENT – JULIAN LEESER, Julian Leeser MP, the Member for Berowra, has for many years supported recognition of Indigenous Australian in the constitution. He is among those Liberal Party members who now differ from …2023-10-03 00:00:22
THE VOICE AND OTHER INDIGENOUS MATTERS – KERRYNNE LIDDLE, A prominent supporter of the No case for the referendum on The Voice to Parliament, set down for 14 October 2023, South Australian Liberal Party Senator Kerrynne Liddle has argued, …2023-09-21 00:00:04
ROBERT MENZIES AND THE VISUAL ARTS, Clifton Pugh painted Gough Whitlam’s official portrait hanging in Parliament House. Married to Clifton at the time, Judith Pugh was part of the vibe that Whitlam was the great mover …2023-09-13 00:00:37
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RESTLESS DOLLY MAUNDER, Kate Grenville is an Australian internationally acclaimed and prize winning writer. She has published fifteen books, the most recent being Restless Dolly Maunder which traces the character and experiences of …2023-08-28 00:00:16
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AUSTRALIA’S PIVOT TO INDIA, From cricket and movies to trade and immigration, Australia’s relations with India have moved progressively forward over the past two decades. This development has not passed the notice of Labor’s …2023-08-22 00:00:19
AUSTRALIAN SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE & THE ADVENT OF CYBER – CLARE BIRGIN, Why does Australia have a national signals intelligence agency? How did it begin, what does it do and why is it controversial? And how significant are its ties with key …2023-08-16 00:00:39
AUSTRALIAN SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE & THE ADVENT OF CYBER – JOHN BLAXLAND, Why does Australia have a national signals intelligence agency? How did it begin, what does it do and why is it controversial? And how significant are its ties with key …2023-08-16 00:00:27
LAUNCHING MENZIES VERSUS EVATT – THE GREAT RIVALRY OF AUSTRALIAN POLITICS – JOHN HOWARD, No two contestants in Australian political history could be said to have affected each other as much as Robert Menzies and Bert Evatt – one to have helped to establish …2023-08-10 00:00:56
MENZIES VERSUS EVATT: THE GREAT RIVALRY OF AUSTRALIAN POLITICS – Michael Kirby, No two contestants in Australian political history could be said to have affected each other as much as Robert Menzies and Bert Evatt – one to have helped to establish …2023-08-10 00:00:54
MENZIES VERSUS EVATT: THE GREAT RIVALRY OF AUSTRALIAN POLITICS – Anne Henderson, No two contestants in Australian political history could be said to have affected each other as much as Robert Menzies and Bert Evatt – one to have helped to establish …2023-08-10 00:00:43
ORWELL UPDATED— “POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE” FOR TODAY, In his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language” published in 1946, George criticised “the ugly and inaccurate’ spoken and written English of his day. He examined the connection between …2023-07-31 00:00:31
WORKPLACE RELATIONS REFORMS, STANDING UP FOR CASUAL WORKERS, FEAR CAMPAIGNS, Tony Burke MP is the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for the Arts. In 2023, after months of consultation with business and unions the Albanese government proposed …2023-07-24 00:00:41
SYDNEY: A BIOGRAPHY, “I came to Sydney from Melbourne in 1978 and immediately fell in love with its history, the sandstone buildings, the gorgeous harbour, the bridge, the Opera House, its ad hoc …2023-07-12 00:00:00
THE ABC IN CRISIS?, As debate continued over the ABC’s fall in ratings, Managing Director David Anderson announced the ABC would be moving from broadcast radio to streamed or on-demand audio and that the …2023-07-06 19:01:36
JOSEPH COOK – PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA’S FIRST CENTRE RIGHT GOVERNMENT, Joseph Cook was the Australian prime minister who announced Australia had joined what became World War I. The Royal Australian Navy was transferred to the British Admiralty and a contingent of …2023-07-06 18:50:30
THE LIBERAL PARTY: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?, In the wake of the Coalition loss at the federal election in 2021 and with Liberal state governments across mainland Australia, the Liberal Party faces a reassessment, both organisationally and …2023-07-06 18:34:32
THE LIBERAL PARTY: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? THE COURAGE TO TAKE BACK CONTROL, In the wake of the Coalition loss at the federal election in 2021 and with Liberal state governments across mainland Australia, the Liberal Party faces a reassessment, both organisationally and …2023-07-06 16:05:49
 THE LIBERAL PARTY – WHAT IS TO BE DONE?, In the wake of the Coalition loss at the federal election in 2021 and with Liberal state governments across mainland Australia, the Liberal Party faces a reassessment, both organisationally and …2023-07-06 15:49:10
WHY CRITICAL MINERALS ARE NOW CRITICAL TO AUSTRALIA’S SOVEREIGNTY, As National Secretary of the Australian Workers Union, Daniel Walton has a special interest in the role of mining in the Australian economy.  And with the ongoing investment in new …2023-07-06 14:37:47
AN APPRAISAL OF WHITLAM’S FOREIGN POLICY, As Prime Minister from 1972-1975, Gough Whitlam established diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China, reached a settlement with the United States on vital defence facilities, revitalised the ANZUS …2023-07-06 14:04:06
WHAT’S JIM CHALMERS ON ABOUT, New Labor government Treasurer Jim Chalmers set off a debate in early 2023 with his essay in The Monthly, “Capitalism after The Crisis”.  Faced with growing debt and an inflationary global economy, Chalmers …2023-07-06 13:46:04
WHAT’S TREASURER JIM CHALMERS ON ABOUT?, New Labor government Treasurer Jim Chalmers set off a debate in early 2023 with his essay in The Monthly, “Capitalism after The Crisis”.  Faced with growing debt and an inflationary global economy, Chalmers …2023-07-06 12:36:13
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS AFTER THE 2023 NSW ELECTION , In the aftermath of the defeat of the New South Wales Coalition government in March 2023, the NSW Liberal and National parties had much to think about. Labor had made …2023-07-06 12:31:22
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS: AFTER THE 2023 NSW ELECTION, In the aftermath of the defeat of the New South Wales Coalition government in March 2023, the NSW Liberal and National parties had much to think about. Labor had made …2023-07-06 12:21:41
THE VOICE TO PARLIAMENT – THE LEGAL REALITIES, Following the release of the wording of the 2023 referendum question to be put to Australian electors being announced by the Prime Minister, The Sydney Institute held an important discussion …2023-07-06 12:14:57
THE VOICE TO PARLIAMENT – THE LEGAL REALITIES, Following the release of the wording of the 2023 referendum question to be put to Australian electors being announced by the Prime Minister, The Sydney Institute held an important discussion …2023-07-06 12:10:58
BORN OF FIRE AND ASH – AUSTRALIA AND THE EAST TIMOR CRISIS – 1999-2000, Australia’s involvement in East Timor from 1999–2000 was this nation’s largest mission conducted under United Nations auspices, the single largest deployment of Australian Defence Force personnel since the Second World …2023-07-05 15:59:48
JOURNALISM IN THE AGE OF ALGORITHMS, The quality of journalism had been challenged in recent decades by the advance of social media and the internet. Increasingly, the need to make media pay has decreased serious content, …2023-07-05 15:50:23
AMBITIOUS BUT ACHIEVABLE: ENERGY SECURITY, AFFORDABILITY AND EMISSIONS REDUCTION, The Hon Chris Bowen MP, theMinister for Climate Change and Energy, is the minister in charge of overseeing the Albanese Government’s pledge to cut Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions by 43 …2023-07-05 15:40:44
A LEGAL-LITE, WATERTIGHT INDIGENOUS VOICE TO PARLIAMENT, The year 2023 marked a referendum milestone in the history of the Australian constitution with debate in full flight over the Albanese Government’s decision to insert an Indigenous Voice to …2023-07-05 15:32:08
PRESERVATION IS SUPERANNUATION, Australians are rightly proud of our world class superannuation system. But no government can afford to be complacent about finding improvements. After the Albanese Government announced change to Australia’s superannuation …2023-07-05 15:22:56
US FOREIGN POLICY IN THE BIDEN ERA, Walter Russell Mead is the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College and previously taught American foreign policy at Yale University. He was also the …2023-07-05 15:11:23
AUSTRALIA’S CAMPUS CRISIS – ERASING THE PAST; FAILING THE FUTURE, “History, as a discipline taught in Australian universities, is no longer about a study of the past, it has turned into a woke political project to erase our memory”. So …2023-07-05 14:53:47
THE NDIS AT 10, The National Insurance Scheme was set up by the Gillard Labor government and is Australia’s first national scheme for people with disability. It provides funding directly to individuals. The NDIS also …2023-07-05 14:16:03
THE VOICE TO PARLIAMENT: THE CASE AGAINST, As 2023 – the year of Australia’s referendum on The Voice to Parliament – The Sydney Institute began a series of discussions on what would be the question, the model …2023-07-05 14:01:20
THE VOICE TO PARLIAMENT: THE CASE FOR, As 2023 – the year of Australia’s referendum on The Voice to Parliament – The Sydney Institute began a series of discussions on what would be the question, the model …2023-07-05 13:56:33
AUSTRALIA’S INFLATION AND PRODUCTIVITY – HISTORY AND CHALLENGES AHEAD, The Hon Angus Taylor is the Member for Hume and Shadow treasurer in the Peter Dutton led federal opposition. The electorate of Hume represents one of the fastest growing population …2023-07-03 00:00:14
THE PEOPLE, THE POWER AND THE PATH TO A BETTER AUSTRALIA, With the Labor Party governing federally and in all states except Tasmania, the Coalition, in mid 2023, is facing an immense task. Yet, it has been there before when Kevin Rudd was …2023-06-28 00:00:48
POLITICAL LIVES: AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTERS AND THEIR BIOGRAPHERS, What was the story behind Bob Hawke’s famed biography? Why does Paul Keating think biographies of serving politicians are “like Polaroids of a busy life” while John Howard considers them …2023-06-19 00:00:19
THE ABC IN CRISIS?, With its ratings down, its presenters in the news rather than reporting the news, and debate over its charter and more besides, the question in 2023 was what’s happening at …2023-06-14 00:00:37
MARKET POWER AND MARKUPS: MALIGN MARKERS FOR THE AUSTRALIAN MACROECONOMY, Monopoly isn’t just a board game. Across the Australian economy, markets are becoming increasingly dominated by a few big firms. This means consumers pay more – a painful squeeze at …2022-12-07 00:00:53
THE DIGITAL ECONOMY – THE CHALLENGES AHEAD, The Hon Paul Fletcher MP is Shadow Minister for Government Services and the Digital Economy and Shadow Minister for Science and the Arts & The Digital Economy having served in …2022-12-05 00:00:40
THE 2022 SYDNEY INSTITUTE ANNUAL DINNER ADDRESS, The Sydney Institute’s Annual Dinner, now into it 33rd year, is a highlight of the Sydney business calendar. In 2022, the Sydney Institute Annual Dinner address was given by the …2022-11-14 00:00:48
VICTORY: LABOR’S RETURN TO POWER, Victory for the Australian Labor Party, at the 2022 federal election, has been resounding and sweet, but it comes with caveats. Both major parties now have to look over their …2022-11-09 00:00:13
MY LAST DRINK – ROSS FITZGERALD, Professor Ross Fitzgerald is proud to say that he has been sober for over fifty years. Thanks to Alcoholics Anonymous and the support he found among its members. As a …2022-10-31 00:00:47
MY LAST DRINK – DI YOUNG, Professor Ross Fitzgerald is proud to say that he has been sober for over 50 years. Thanks to Alcoholics Anonymous and the support he found among its members. As a …2022-10-31 00:00:42
MY LAST DRINK – TIM OLSEN, Professor Ross Fitzgerald is proud to say that he has been sober for over 50 years. Thanks to Alcoholics Anonymous and the support he found among its members. As a …2022-10-31 00:00:25
THE VOICE TO PARLIAMENT: TWO VIEWS – ANTHONY DILLON, The request for creating the Indigenous Voice to Parliament was a result of the May 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart, delivered by the First Nations National Constitutional Convention which met …2022-10-17 00:00:36
THE VOICE TO PARLIAMENT: TWO VIEWS – SEAN GORDON, The request for creating the Indigenous Voice to Parliament was a result of the May 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart, delivered by the First Nations National Constitutional Convention which met …2022-10-17 00:00:31
THE DOUBLE MURDER CASE THAT SHOCKED AUSTRALIA, Dorothy Davis and Kerry Whelan came from different parts of Sydney, mixed in quite different circles, and led completely different lives. They had never met each other and, if they …2022-10-12 00:00:57
HOW WOMEN HAVE CHANGED FOREIGN CORRESPONDING, Reporting from war zones and places of trouble across the world consumes our multi media stage. Until recently, however, women were at the back of the queue in the ranks …2022-10-05 00:00:50
THROUGH HER EYES, Reporting from war zones and places of trouble across the world consumes our multi media stage. Until recently, however, women were at the back of the queue in the ranks …2022-10-05 00:00:11
REFLECTIONS ON PREMIER GLADYS BEREJIKLIAN, Gladys Berejiklian was Australia’s rockstar premier. The first woman elected to lead NSW, she steered the state through devastating bushfires, drought and a once-in-a-generation pandemic with a steady hand and …2022-09-21 00:00:34
A SENSE OF BALANCE, As the 25th prime minister of Australia, The Hon John Howard MP managed to outlast all his predecessors, becoming the second longest serving Australian prime minister and bettered only by …2022-09-07 00:00:34
IRAN IN 2022, With the world headlines focussed on the war in Ukraine, media attention in early 2022 drifted away from close attention to happenings in Iran – in spite of US President …2022-08-29 14:28:01
AUSTRALIA AFTER THE 2022 FEDERAL ELECTION, With the votes still being counted in many seats following the 2022 federal election, The Sydney Institute held a briefing on what might be expected on Wednesday 25 May 2022. …2022-08-29 14:19:05
UKRAINE TODAY – A VIEW FROM AUSTRALIA, In 2022, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky became the unlikely hero of the second decade of the twenty-first century. He led and inspired his country—and the entire free world—in the fight …2022-08-29 14:05:53
THE ALBANESE GOVERNMENT: WHAT TO EXPECT, As the Albanese government settled in following Labor’s win at the 21 May 2022 federal election, The Sydney Institute held a series of talks on what the new government might …2022-08-29 14:01:42
THE ALBANESE GOVERNMENT – WHAT TO EXPECT, As the Albanese government settled in following Labor’s win at the 21 May 2022 federal election, The Sydney Institute held a series of talks on what the new government might …2022-08-26 13:49:11
THE BOXING BUTTERFLY: A LIFE OF CONVICTION, , Margaret Cunneen SC is the boxing butterfly who turned the tables on the ICAC, amidst prosecuting murderers, pedophiles and rapists, going on to launch a new life chapter as a …2022-08-25 16:11:15
THE LIBERAL PARTY AND THE 2022 ELECTION, With the Liberal/National Coalition losing government after nine years at the 2022 federal election, The Sydney Institute asked two of Sydney’s best known Liberal voices to offer their take on …2022-08-25 15:33:46
THE LIBERAL PARTY AND THE 2022 ELECTION, With the Liberal/National Coalition losing government after nine years at the 2022 federal election, The Sydney Institute asked two of Sydney’s best known Liberal voices to offer their take on …2022-08-25 15:25:00
ISRAEL IN 2022: DOMESTIC POLITICS & FOREIGN POLICY, An anti-missile defence integrated system to confront the threats posed by the Iranians wagered between Israel and Arab nations such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE is what Ehud Yaari …2022-08-25 14:09:43
REMEMBERING LEONIE KRAMER, Dame Leonie Kramer held the Chair of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney from 1968 to 1989 and was dubbed “Killer Kramer” by Nobel laureate and nemesis Patrick White. …2022-08-25 14:05:54
AUSTRALIA AFTER THE 2022 FEDERAL ELECTION, With the votes still being counted in many seats following the 2022 federal election, The Sydney Institute held a briefing on what might be expected on Wednesday 25 May 2022. …2022-08-25 14:00:19
UKRAINE TODAY – PRESIDENT ZELENSKY, In 2022, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky became the unlikely hero of the second decade of the twenty-first century. He led and inspired his country—and the entire free world—in the fight …2022-08-25 13:33:18
GROWING UP IN MAO’S CHINA, Amei Li grew up in Red China, the daughter of a former business owner. In her memoir Pink Flower – Growing Up in Mao’s China, she describes the austerity of …2022-08-25 13:01:08
THE FUTURE OF WELFARE IN AUSTRALIA, Economist and Labor MP Daniel Mulino for Fraser is also the author of Safety Net – The Future of Welfare in Australia. In his book, Daniel Mulino explains how the …2022-08-24 00:00:46
RETHINKING CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, Being a director of a listed company is fast becoming more complex and less attractive… and yet the role has never been more important. Nearly 30 years after his seminal …2022-08-16 00:00:55
THE VOICE TO PARLIAMENT – PAST AND PRESENT, Former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia Murray Gleeson in Recognition in keeping with the Constitution: a worthwhile project opined, “That Indigenous people have a special, and unique, status …2022-08-15 00:00:48
A MORE MODEST OPTION COULD LIFT PROSPECTS FOR A VOICE, Former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia Murray Gleeson in Recognition in keeping with the Constitution: a worthwhile project opined, “That Indigenous people have a special, and unique, status …2022-08-15 00:00:43
MALCOLM TURNBULL & THE LIBERAL PARTY’S CIVIL WAR, Former Liberal Party leader and prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, in his campaign against Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the Liberal Party is one of the greatest acts of political disloyalty …2022-08-08 00:00:32
REFERENDUMS – THEN AND NOW, Constitutional change does not come easily in Australia by way of referendum. To change the constitution, Australians must vote a majority, for any proposal, in a majority of states. Since …2022-08-03 00:00:07
MESSIAHS, ATHEISTS AND DEEP GREEN RELIGION, Dr Rachael Kohn AO is a familiar voice for thousands of ABC listeners as the former long time presenter of The Spirit of Things – programs about religion on the …2022-05-17 11:45:22
FEDERAL ELECTION 2022 – DIFFERENT VIEWS, On Tuesday 10 May 2022, Aaron Patrick, Special Correspondent for The Australian financial Review, and Gemma Tognini, Executive Director, GT Communications and a contributor to The Australian spoke for The Sydney …2022-05-10 11:25:40
FEDERAL ELECTION 2022 – DIFFERENT VIEWS, On Tuesday 10 May 2022, Aaron Patrick, Special Correspondent for The Australian financial Review, and Gemma Tognini, Executive Director, GT Communications and a contributor to The Australian spoke for The Sydney …2022-05-10 11:14:13
BOB HAWKE: DEMONS AND DESTINY, In writing his biography of former Australian prime minister Bob Hawke – Bob Hawke – Demons and Destiny – award-winning and best-selling author Troy Bramston has assembled a remarkable record …2022-05-03 14:00:31
REFLECTIONS OF AN AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR TO THE US DURING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, Donald Trump’s unconventional presidency turned politics and diplomatic relations in Washington DC on its head. When The Hon Joe Hockey, former Australian federal Treasurer, found himself an unlikely diplomat in …2022-04-13 13:53:04
LAUNCH OF MARGARET GUILFOYLE – AN AUSTRALIAN BIOGRAPHICAL MONOGRAPH, On Wednesday 6 April 2022, at The Sydney Institute, The Hon John Howard AC launched Anne Henderson’s biography of Dame Margaret Guilfoyle – Number 13 in the Australian Biographical Monograph …2022-04-06 14:07:32
THE GLOBAL RISE OF ANTI-SEMITISM – OLGA DEUTSCH, Olga Deutsch is the vice president of NGO Monitors, a globally recognised research institute promoting democratic values and good governance that works to ensure that decision makers and civil society …2022-03-31 10:47:16
CHINA, RUSSIA, UKRAINE – MORRISON’S MISSION, When he became Prime Minister in 2018, Scott Morrison was a foreign policy amateur confronted by unprecedented challenges: an assertive Beijing and a looming rivalry between the two biggest economies …2022-03-22 12:58:06
THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY: A VIEW FROM THE UNITED STATES, Adam Creighton is The Australian’s Washington correspondent who, in 2021, began filing stories from a very much locked down Washington DC. He also took up his position during the first …2022-02-21 09:35:21
THE DUKE OF WINDSOR, HIS WIFE & ADOLF HITLER, On Wednesday 16 February 2022, The Sydney Institute conducted a Zoom meeting with internationally acclaimed historian and author Andrew Lownie from London. The discussion centred on the analysis and expose …2022-02-16 12:48:47
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS 2022 – AN UPDATE, On Tuesday 8 February 2022, The Sydney Institute invited Aaron Patrick – senior correspondent at The Australian Financial Review, and Parnell McGuinness, Strategy & Policy at Agenda C & columnist The …2022-02-08 14:12:10
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS 2022: AN UPDATE, On Tuesday 8 February 2022, The Sydney Institute invited Aaron Patrick – senior correspondent at The Australian Financial Review, and Parnell McGuinness, Strategy & Policy at Agenda C & columnist The …2022-02-08 09:59:10
AN UPDATE ON PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN & US POLITICS, Miranda Devine is currently a New York Post columnist and Fox News contributor. She also works for the Australian media as a Daily Telegraph columnist and a Sky News contributor. Her most recent …2022-02-03 09:45:14
2021 ANNUAL DINNER ADDRESS FOR THE SYDNEY INSTITUTE, The Sydney Institute’s much delayed Annual Dinner for 2020 was held on Monday 13 December 2021 at The Star in Sydney with some 800 guests. The guest speaker was The …2021-12-13 00:00:16
CARDINAL PELL, THE MEDIA PILE-ON AND COLLECTIVE GUILT – BOOK LAUNCH, , , On Tuesday 7 December, barrister and senior counsel Margaret Cunneen SC launched Gerard Henderson’s Cardinal Pell, The Media Pile-on and Collective Guilt which, Margaret Cunneen’s words, “is a meticulous chronology …2021-12-07 00:00:28
LAUNCH OF CARDINAL GEORGE PELL, THE MEDIA PILE-ON & COLLECTIVE GUILT, On Tuesday 7 December, barrister and senior counsel Margaret Cunneen SC launched Gerard Henderson’s Cardinal Pell, The Media Pile-on and Collective Guilt which, Margaret Cunneen’s words, “is a meticulous chronology …2021-12-07 00:00:07
AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL PROBLEMS AND CATHOLIC POLICY SOLUTIONS, Greg Craven AO is the former Vice Chancellor of Australian Catholic University, a commentator and constitutional lawyer. To coincide with the publication of his In The Shadow of The Cross: …2021-12-01 00:00:44
BEATING FRANCE TO BOTANY BAY, Australia and its relations with France go back a long way – they began with the British. The French had a jump start in the race for a Pacific empire, …2021-11-23 00:00:54
AUSTRALIA’S FAMILY COURTS – WHAT WORKS WHAT DOESN’T, , The courts and how they affect children are increasingly of concern. Catharine Lumby – Professor of Media, University of Sydney – and Camilla Nelson – Associate Professor in Media, Notre …2021-11-16 00:00:32
REPORT FROM THE US, Annelise Nielsen is Sky News Australia’s Washington Correspondent. As Australia emerged from the years of pandemic, with the targets of COP26 and the AUKUS agreement into the future, the question …2021-11-10 00:00:11
REMEMBERING BILL LEAK, Fred Pawle spent three years researching and interviewing dozens of the late columnist Bill Leak’s friends and colleagues to create an intimate and honest biography. In his biography of Leak – …2021-11-01 13:25:27
DARK EMU, BRUCE PASCOE AND THE HUNTER/GATHERER CONTROVERSY, Bruce Pascoe’s book, Dark Emu was published in March 2014. Praised by leftist revisionist historians it won awards and became part of education in schools about Indigenous Australian first peoples. The fundamental …2021-10-26 14:11:00
DARK EMU, BRUCE PASCOE AND THE HUNTER/GATHERER CONTROVERSY, Bruce Pascoe’s book, Dark Emu was published in March 2014. Praised by leftist revisionist historians it won awards and became part of education in schools about Indigenous Australian first peoples. The fundamental …2021-10-26 00:00:53
THE SENTIMENTAL STATE – AUSTRALIA’S FEDERATION, The COVID pandemic focussed Australians’ attention on the limits of their federation constitution. Border closures and state regulations have begged the question, “Did the Founding Fathers get it right?” Associate Professor …2021-10-19 00:00:48
THEIR FIERY CROSS – REVISITING AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION, The COVID pandemic focussed Australians’ attention on the limits of their federation constitution. Border closures and state regulations have begged the question, “Did the Founding Fathers get it right?” Associate Professor …2021-10-19 00:00:39
THE GREAT COVID PANIC, How to make sense of the astonishing upheaval of February 2020 and following? Normal life – in which expected rights and freedoms were taken for granted – came to be …2021-10-11 00:00:49
INDIA AND PAKISTAN AFTER THE RETURN OF THE TALIBAN, Sadanand Dhume is an author, commentator and columnist with The Wall Street Journal. Among his published works is the best selling My Friend the Fanatic; Travels with a Radical Islamist. With the …2021-10-06 00:00:09
THE UNITED STATES, CHINA AND ALL THAT, Thomas Friedman is an American political commentator and author. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who is a weekly columnist for The New York Times. He has written extensively …2021-09-30 00:00:20
REMEMBERING SENATOR NEVILLE BONNER AND HIS LEGACY, To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Senator Neville Bonner’s taking his seat in the Australian senate, The Sydney Institute conducted a Zoom meeting on Wednesday 22 September 2021. The meeting …2021-09-22 00:00:47
NEVILLE BONNER: A BEACON FOR INDIGENOUS REPRESENTATION, To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Senator Neville Bonner’s taking his seat in the Australian senate, The Sydney Institute conducted a Zoom meeting on Wednesday 22 September 2021. The meeting …2021-09-22 00:00:31
AUSTRALIAN JURISTS AND CHRISTIANITY: A DISCUSSION, In 2021, Federation Press released its Australian Jurists and Christianity, edited by Justice Geoffrey Lindsay and Professor Wayne Hudson – the Australian edition of an international series on Christianity and …2021-09-13 00:00:22
AUSTRALIAN JURISTS AND CHRISTIANITY: A DISCUSSION, In 2021, Federation Press released its Australian Jurists and Christianity, edited by Justice Geoffrey Lindsay and Professor Wayne Hudson – the Australian edition of an international series on Christianity and …2021-09-13 00:00:10
AUSTRALIAN JURISTS AND CHRISTIANITY, In 2021, Federation Press released its Australian Jurists and Christianity, edited by Justice Geoffrey Lindsay and Professor Wayne Hudson – the Australian edition of an international series on Christianity and …2021-09-13 00:00:09
ROBERT MENZIES AS CHRISTIAN JURIST, In 2021, Federation Press released its Australian Jurists and Christianity, edited by Justice Geoffrey Lindsay and Professor Wayne Hudson – the Australian edition of an international series on Christianity and …2021-09-13 00:00:05
SUICIDE PREVENTION IN AUSTRALIA – TOWARDS ZERO, With pandemic lockdowns and uncertainty, growing numbers of Australians experienced mental health problems while, even before the pandemic, youth suicides continued to be a growing concern. Significant reforms have occurred …2021-09-09 00:00:29
TWENTY YEARS AFTER 9/11, After 20 years fighting in Afghanistan, the pull out of US troops from Afghanistan in August 2021 – as in South Vietnam decades earlier – became overwhelmed with ordinary citizens …2021-08-31 09:26:54
AFGHANISTAN TODAY – STRATEGIC AND SOCIAL ISSUES, Dr Ida Lichter is an internationally known writer and commentator on women’s rights in Islamic societies. Her book, Muslim Women Reformers: Inspiring Voices Against Oppression, is a standard reference in many …2021-08-25 16:52:55
AFGHANISTAN TODAY – STRATEGIC AND SOCIAL ISSUES, Dr Sajjan M. Gohel is the International Security Director for the London-based Asia-Pacific Foundation, a policy assessment think-tank monitoring emerging geopolitical threats. He acts in a consultancy role for law …2021-08-25 11:02:27
THE ABC, THE LUNA PARK FIRE AND NEVILLE WRAN, ABC TV’s $2 million documentary was aired in February 2021. It made serious allegations in relation to the ghost train fire at Sydney’s Luna Park in June 1979. Those allegations …2021-08-19 10:56:49
THE ABC, THE LUNA PARK FIRE AND NEVILLE WRAN, ABC TV’s $2 million documentary was aired in February 2021. It made serious allegations in relation to the ghost train fire at Sydney’s Luna Park in June 1979. Those allegations …2021-08-19 10:56:48
CHRISTIANITY TODAY – A TIME OF CRISIS?, In a Zoom meeting for The Sydney Institute on Wednesday 11 August 2021, commentator and long-time ABC presenter Geraldine Doogue joined Andrew West, presenter of the ABC’s Religion Report. Regarded …2021-08-11 10:53:22
CHRISTIANITY TODAY – A TIME OF CRISIS?, In a Zoom meeting for The Sydney Institute on Wednesday 11 August 2021, commentator and long-time ABC presenter Geraldine Doogue joined Andrew West, presenter of the ABC’s Religion Report. Regarded …2021-08-11 10:51:56
AUSTRALIA’S IMMIGRATION INTAKE: PLUS OR MINUS?, According to Saul Eslake, one of Australia’s leading economic commentators, the closure of Australia’s border during the 2020-21 pandemic has given government policy makers “an unprecedented opportunity to take stock …2021-08-03 14:42:04
THE ECONOMICS OF IMMIGRATION, According to Saul Eslake, one of Australia’s leading economic commentators, the closure of Australia’s border during the 2020-21 pandemic has given government policy makers “an unprecedented opportunity to take stock …2021-08-03 11:41:35
POLITICS NOW – COVID AND THE ECONOMY, As Sydney’s lockdown due to riding cases of the Delta strain of COVID took their toll, The Sydney Institute began another round of Zoom meetings for its members.  First in …2021-07-19 10:22:07
POLITICS NOW – COVID AND THE ECONOMY, As Sydney’s lockdown due to riding cases of the Delta strain of COVID took their toll, The Sydney Institute began another round of Zoom meetings for its members.  First in …2021-07-19 10:22:06
LAB LEAK OR NATURAL EMERGENCE: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN WUHAN?, Sharri Markson is the Investigations Writer at The Australian and host of Sharri on Sky News Australia. In 2020, Sharri Markson began reporting on little known investigations being made into …2021-06-22 10:20:42
BURAADJA, THE LIBERAL CASE FOR NATIONAL RECONCILIATION, Senator Andrew Bragg, Senator for New South Wales, has just released his publication Buraadja – The Liberal Case for National Reconciliation with the P M Glynn Institute. He argues that the history …2021-06-08 10:20:10
LONE VOICE: THE WARS OF ISI LEIBLER, AN OVERVIEW, Suzanne D. Rutland (OAM PhD) is Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney. She is a renowned Australian Jewish historian and has published widely on Australian Jewish history, edits the …2021-05-25 10:16:55
LIBERAL PARTY PRINCIPLES AND THE ENERGY PORTFOLIO, On Wednesday 19 May 2021, The Hon Angus Taylor, Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, addressed The Sydney Institute. In this important speech, given on the day of the announcement …2021-05-19 10:13:23
MUTINY, MURDER AND POLITICAL CONTROVERSY, Robert Hadler is the author of Dark Secrets – The True Story of Murder in HMAS Australia  and, most recently, Mutineers – A True Story of Heroes and Villains which records the history of how …2021-05-18 10:12:03
CANCEL CULTURE – WHERE TO NEXT?, With the impact of Cancel Culture, not a week goes by without public controversy and debate. Examples include destroying statues, re-writing history, promoting gender fluidity in schools, opposing the establishment …2021-05-04 10:11:08
PLANNING, PROGRESS, AND PRODUCTIVITY POST-PANDEMIC, The Hon Rob Stokes MP is NSW Minister for Planning and Public Spaces. Addressing The Sydney Institute on Thursday 29 April 2021 – in the Institute’s first face-to-face meeting following …2021-04-29 00:00:30
RADICALS — REMEMBERING THE SIXTIES, , Meredith Burgmann – former president of the NSW Upper House – and writer Nadia Wheatley, who have put together Radicals – Remembering The Sixties, spoke for The Sydney Institute about …2021-04-28 10:08:34
DEFIANT VOICES: THE LEGACY OF AUSTRALIA’S CONVICT WOMEN, The recorded stories of Australia’s convict women have taken time to defuse from those of a collection of lowly and wanton figures in the annuls of Australian history to something …2021-04-20 14:21:29
WHY DO WE FUND THE ARTS?, Paul Fletcher is the Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts. On Wednesday 7 April 2021, Paul Fletcher addressed The Sydney Institute on the topic of funding the …2021-04-07 00:00:32
FROM FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES – A REFLECTION, On Tuesday 30 March 2021, Dave Sharma, Member for Wentworth and former Australian Ambassador to Israel, gave a Zoom address to The Sydney Institute 30 March 2021. His topic ranged …2021-03-30 00:00:36
THE RISE AND FALL OF DONALD TRUMP – HOW, WHY AND WITH WHAT EFFECT, As the fallout from the defeat of Donald Trump by Joe Biden in the US presidential election 2020 subsided, on Tuesday 23 March 20021, The Sydney Institute conducted a Zoom …2021-03-23 00:00:12
REBUILDING AUSTRALIA: SEIZING OUR CHANCE TO MAKE THINGS IN A POST-COVID WORLD, On Tuesday 16 March 2021, Daniel Walton, AWU National Secretary gave an address to The Sydney Institute, filmed for Youtube, in which he set out a vision for Australian manufacturing …2021-03-16 00:00:30
THE AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY AND BUDGET 2021, Robert Gottliebsen has been writing and commentating on the Australian economy for more than half a century. These days, he is a regular columnist for The Australian. As Australia emerged …2021-03-15 00:00:29
THE VOICELESS DECADESAt a “virtual” function and discussion for The Sydney Institute on Wednesday 8 July 2020, Josephine Cashman, Indigenous lawyer and businesswoman, spoke for The Sydney Institute on the complexities surrounding …2021-03-10 11:23:27
THE VOICELESS DECADESAt a “virtual” function and discussion for The Sydney Institute on Wednesday 8 July 2020, Josephine Cashman, Indigenous lawyer and businesswoman, spoke for The Sydney Institute on the complexities surrounding …2021-03-04 14:41:40
ROCK STARS OR DOGGED COMPETITORS? HOW TO PICK AN OPPOSITION LEADER, On Tuesday 2 March 2021, The Hon Michael Knight AO, former NSW politician and Minister for the Olympics in the Carr Government, spoke for The Sydney Institute in an address …2021-03-02 00:00:46
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS – AS SEEN FROM VICTORIA, As debate over the culture within Parliament House Canberra erupted on social media and in mainstream media, and Australians adjusted to a second year under COVID regulations, former president of …2021-03-02 00:00:16
JOE’S BIDEN’S AMERICA, In the wake of the defeat of Donald Trump in the 2020 US presidential election and the instalment of the Biden administration, The Sydney Institute held a Zoom meeting, on …2021-02-25 00:00:49
JOE’S BIDEN’S AMERICA, In the wake of the defeat of Donald Trump in the 2020 US presidential election and the instalment of the Biden administration, The Sydney Institute held a Zoom meeting, on …2021-02-25 00:00:43
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS – SCOTT MORRISON AND THE COALITION GOVERNMENT, As 2021 began to emerge from the worst of the pandemic of 2020, the Morrison Government faced new challenges. On Wednesday 10 February 2021, Paul Kelly, journalist, author and media …2021-02-10 00:00:37
 GROWING UP IN AUSTRALIA – ONE PROTESTANT, ONE CATHOLIC – TWO VIEWS, Executive Director of The Sydney Institute and columnist with The Australian, Dr Gerard Henderson was educated by the Jesuits at Melbourne’s Xavier College and raised a Catholic. Former Justice of …2021-02-03 14:12:31
THE TRUTH OF THE PALACE LETTERS: DECEIT, AMBUSH AND DISMISSAL IN 1975, In July 2020, the National Archives of Australia released the correspondence between Australia’s Governor General Sir John Kerr and Buckingham Palace during the constitutional crisis of 1975. This came about …2021-02-02 15:06:19
SIR JOHN KERR AND THE DISMISSAL – THE TRUTH OF THE PALACE LETTERS  , In July 2020, the National Archives of Australia released the correspondence between Australia’s Governor General Sir John Kerr and Buckingham Palace during the constitutional crisis of 1975. This came about …2021-02-02 15:04:51
IN DEFENCE OF SHAME – A VIEW, Tanveer Ahmed is a psychologist, author and columnist for the Australian Financial Review.  In his new book, In Defence of Shame, Dr Tanveer Ahmed looks at the history and contemporary …2021-02-02 14:58:47
IN DEFENCE OF SHAME – A VIEW, Monica Doumit is the Director, Public Affairs and Engagement for the Archdiocese of Sydney and a columnist with The Catholic Weekly. Tanveer Ahmed is a psychologist, author and columnist for …2021-02-02 14:57:40
WRITING ABOUT PAUL RAMSAY, Angela Shanahan – columnist with The Australian – has written the biography of Paul Ramsay, founder of Ramsay Health which has been published as Paul Ramsay – A Man For …2021-02-02 14:47:15
LAUNCHING ANGELA SHANAHAN’S PAUL RAMSAY – A MAN FOR OTHERS, Angela Shanahan – columnist with The Australian – has written the biography of Paul Ramsay, founder of Ramsay Health which has been published as Paul Ramsay – A Man For …2021-02-02 14:43:56
SYDNEY, CRIME AND THE PANDEMIC OF 1919, The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 engendered a look back at the global pandemic of 1919 known as the Spanish Flu. Nerida Campbell is a curator at Sydney Living Museums. Her …2021-02-02 14:33:50
A PROTESTANT PERSPECTIVE, Former Justice of the High Court of Australia, The Hon Michael Kirby AC GMC, grew up in a strong Anglican tradition – one that he has described as essentially protestant. …2021-02-02 09:58:17
LOOKING AHEAD – AUSTRALIAN POLITICS 2021, At The Sydney Institute, on Wednesday 27 January 2021, as a second year of pandemic restrictions complicated Australian politics, Parnell McGuinness, columnist with The Australian Financial Review and communications strategist, joined …2021-01-27 00:00:51
AUSTRALIA – POLITICS 2021, At The Sydney Institute, on Wednesday 27 January 2021, as a second year of pandemic restrictions complicated Australian politics, Parnell McGuinness, columnist with The Australian Financial Review and communications strategist, joined …2021-01-27 00:00:40
AUSTRALIA – POLITICS 2021, , AT THE SYDNEY INSTITUTE, ON WEDNESDAY 27 JANUARY 2021, FOLLOWING TALKS BY AARON PATRICK AND PARNELL MCGUINNESS ON “AUSTRALIAN POLITICS – 2021” –  SYDNEY INSTITUTE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR GERARD HENDERSON LED …2021-01-27 00:00:38
A BETTER NORMAL AFTER COVID-19, The Hon Tanya Plibersek is Shadow Minister for Education and Training and, until May 2019, was Deputy Leader of the Opposition. In the midst of the 2020 pandemic, Tanya Plibersek …2021-01-20 15:29:05
THE RIGHT PATH TO A LABOR VICTORY, At the May 2019 federal election, Labor MP The Hon Joel Fitzgibbon only narrowly won his supposedly blue-ribbon Labor seat of Hunter in NSW. His experience has led him to …2021-01-20 15:22:01
COVID-19, COURT HEARINGS AND AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING, The Hon Michael Kirby QC CMC is an international jurist, educator and former judge. He served as a Deputy President of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission (1975-83); Chairman of …2020-11-04 12:14:20
INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIA AT A TIME OF “BLACK LIVES MATTER”, As riots and activists became the news in the US after the death of black American George Floyd at the hands of police, the issues of Indigenous deaths in custody …2020-11-04 12:05:50
THE NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT – LIBERALISM AFTER CORONAVIRUS, Tim Wilson MP has been the Member for Goldstein since 2016, is Chairman of the House of Representatives Economics Committee and a Fellow of the P.M. Glynn Institute at the …2020-10-21 14:19:34
THE LETHAL COLLISION OF TWO PANDEMICS: COVID-19 AND AGEISM, Margaret Somerville is Professor of Bioethics at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Sydney and was the founding director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill …2020-10-21 13:42:58
KEEPING CHINA’S RISE PEACEFUL, Om Tuesday 11 August 2020, The Hon Tony Abbott joined Tim Harcourt in a Sydney Institute YouTube broadcast. Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has been a strong supporter of …2020-10-21 13:11:19
WE NEED CHINA – CHINA NEEDS US – CHINA, DIVERSIFICATION AND POST-COVID19 ECONOMY, Tim Harcourt is the JW Nevile Fellow at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, a former chief economist of the Australia Trade Commission and host of The Airport Economist …2020-10-21 13:04:55
SECTION 92 OF THE CONSTITUTION AND THE CLOSURE OF STATE BORDERS, Anne Twomey is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Sydney and Director of the Constitutional Reform Unit. Among her many publications are The Veiled Sceptre – Reserve Powers …2020-10-21 12:49:15
CHALLENGES TO STATE BORDER CLOSURES AND SECTION 92 AND THE 2020 PANDEMIC, Rosalind Dixon is a Professor of Law at the University of NSW. Her work focuses on comparative constitutional law and constitutional design, constitutional democracy, theories of constitutional dialogue and amendment, …2020-10-21 12:47:52
FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND THE MEDIA, Australian Federal Police raids on the offices of the ABC and the home of a journalist with The Australian provoked a heated debate over press freedom in Australia during June …2020-08-19 15:55:21
THE ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF COVID-19, Professor Gigi Foster is Director of Education at the UNSW. She received her BA from Yale (majoring in Ethics, Politics, and Economics) and her PhD in economics from the University …2020-08-13 11:11:21
REFLECTIONS DURING A PANDEMIC, Catherine McGregor is a freelance writer and a graduate of the Royal Military College who served in the Australian Defence Force for more than three decades including three operational deployments …2020-08-13 11:10:51
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF COVID-19, Dr Tanveer Ahmed is a Sydney based psychiatrist and author. He works in private practice at the Hills Clinic, a public facility at Bankstown Community Health and visits jails for …2020-08-13 10:55:25
OVERFLOWING ANGER VS VOICES OF HOPE – THE WORLD AFTER THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD, Barbara Heineback, former communications executive and strategic consultant with the Clinton Administration, now lives in Australia. Speaking for The Sydney Institute’s “virtual” talks program, Barbara Heineback gave an historical perspective of …2020-08-13 10:34:16
FINDING YOUR BIRTH MOTHER – TEN DOORS DOWN, The Hon Robert Tickner grew up on the New South Wales mid-north coast and became an Aboriginal Legal Service lawyer and an alderman of the Sydney City Council. In 1984 …2020-08-13 10:10:43
EMERGING FROM THE PANDEMIC: WHY IT WILL BE IMPORTANT TO MAKE THE MORAL CASE FOR POLICY REFORM, Parnell McGuinness a business owner, writer and communications strategist specialising in complex ideas and business-focused communications. She also fortnightly column for the Australian Financial Review on politics, economics, good ideas …2020-08-13 10:09:49
GETTING OUT OF LOCKDOWN – ECONOMIC OUTLOOKS AFTER THE PANDEMIC, Adam Creighton is Economics editor at The Australian. He is also an award-winning journalist with a special interest in tax and financial policy. In 2019, he was a Journalist in …2020-08-13 10:09:48
THE HIGH COURT’S DECISION ON THE RELEASE OF LETTERS BETWEEN GOVERNOR-GENERAL SIR JOHN KERR AND BUCKINGHAM PALACE, Anne Twomey is Professor of Constitutional Law and Director, Constitutional Reform Unit at the University of Sydney. She worked for the High Court of Australia as a Senior Research Officer, …2020-08-13 10:05:42
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PARENTING OUR AGING PARENTS, Jean Kittson is an author, public speaker, actor, comedian and scriptwriter for stage, television, theatre and radio. Jean is also the Patron of Palliative Care Nurses Australia as well as …2020-08-13 10:05:20
POLITICS AND THE PANDEMIC, As the lockdown in Australia took effect during the first half of 2020, well known commentator and Editor-at-Large at The Australian Paul Kelly, spoke for The Sydney Institute in a …2020-08-13 10:05:06
FIFTY YEARS SOBER: AN ALCOHOLIC’S JOURNEY, Ross Fitzgerald AM is Emeritus Professor of History & Politics at Griffith and author of 42 books, including two memoirs and seven Grafton Everest adventures. Most recently he has published Fifty Years Sober: An Alcoholic’s Journey …2020-05-08 10:51:26
AUSTRALIAN BUSHFIRES: A HISTORY, 2020-05-08 10:04:51
REMEMBERING THE VIETNAM WAR – THE BITE OF THE LOTUS, Carl Robinson lived the Vietnam War first as what he calls “an idealistic US do-gooder” and later as a journalist until he fled Saigon with his Vietnamese wife and some …2020-05-08 09:49:46
CHILDREN, READING AND LIBRARIES, Ursula Dubarsovsky is a much awarded Australian writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults, whose work is characterised by a child’s vision and comic voice of both …2020-05-08 09:49:21
REFLECTIONS ON THE HILTON BOMBING  , Imre Salusinszky is a journalist and author, most recently of The Hilton Bombing: Evan Pederick and the Ananda Marga? On Wednesday 8 April 2020, Imre Salusinszky recorded a talk for …2020-05-08 09:49:15
AINSLEY GOTTO – WORKING WITH JOHN GORTON, In 1968 the new Prime Minister, John Gorton, appointed Ainsley Gotto, aged 22, as his principal private secretary. She became one of the most talked about young women in Australia.  …2020-05-08 09:48:48
KANGAROO VALLEY: AUSTRALIANS IN BRITAIN IN THE 1960s, Nicholas Hasluck has served as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia and as Chair of the Literature Board. Well-known as a writer, his latest work is Beyond …2020-03-13 11:25:02
A POLITICAL UPDATE – SETTING THE SCENE FOR 2020, Summer in south-eastern Australia was particularly severe with continuing drought being added to by a prolonged bushfire season. The Morrison Government – having won the “unwinnable election” in May 2019 …2020-03-13 11:22:55
LABOR – THE STATE OF THE PARTY, Labor’s loss at the May 2019 federal election sent shock waves through the party that had been predicted to win the unloseable election. Polls over months had predicted a Labor …2020-03-13 11:14:29
A NEW ERA OF FIRE, Summer 2019-2020 was a difficult and dangerous one in many parts of Australia due to a long period of destructive bushfires. Debate continues over their causes and their aftermath. At …2020-03-13 11:10:49
LABOR – THE STATE OF THE PARTY, Labor’s loss at the May 2019 federal election sent shock waves through the party that had been predicted to win the unloseable election. Polls over months had predicted a Labor …2020-03-13 11:05:00
A POLITICAL UPDATE – SETTING THE SCENE FOR 2020, Summer in south-eastern Australia was particularly severe with continuing drought being added to by a prolonged bushfire season. The Morrison Government – having won the “unwinnable election” in May 2019 …2020-03-13 10:54:48
Seven Big Australians: Adventures With Comic Actors, Dr Anne Pender is Professor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of New England. Her most recent book, Seven Big Australians: Adventures with Comic Actors, is published by …2019-12-13 16:12:50
A Life Writ Large, Now in his late-eighties, and listed by the National Trust as a “Living Treasure”, Geoffrey Blainey has now published the first volume of his memoires – Before I Forget.  In it, …2019-12-13 16:12:47
Religious Freedom – Two Views, In 2019, the Morrison government tasked the Australian Law Reform Commission to review current legislation around religious freedom. This was in response to the recommendations put to the government by …2019-12-13 16:12:46
Immigration, Humanitarian Pathways, Sovereign Borders, Skilled Migration and Population, Australia’s immigration policies are the envy of other multicultural Western nations – recently having won the praise of the leaders of the UK and the USA. Some of the most …2019-12-13 16:11:53
Far Left and Far Right Populism in Europe, James Kirchick is a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, journalist and author of The End of Europe: Dictators Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age [Yale, 2017] In an article for The …2019-12-13 16:11:51
Policies Supporting Opportunity and Aspiration Prevailed, Senator the Hon. Mathias Cormann, a Senator for Western Australia, is the Minister for Finance and Leader of the Government in the Senate. Senator Corman has been Australia’s Finance Minister …2019-12-13 16:11:47
Why I Blog – The Quiet Australians, The Hon John Anderson is a sixth-generation farmer and grazier from New South Wales, who spent 19 years from 1989 in the Australian Parliament.  This included six years as Leader …2019-12-13 16:11:40
A Remarkable Ten – They Left Their Mark On Australia and Were Then Forgotten, Ian Macfarlane AC is an Australian economist and was Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, from 1996 to 17 September 2006. He has not let retirement end his endeavours, …2019-12-13 16:11:38
The World Is Moving On While Australia Stands Still, The Hon Joel Fitzgibbon is Member for Hunter & Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Resources. After watching his regional seat in New South Wales’ Hunter Valley come very close to …2019-12-13 16:10:37
Myall Creek Massacre: The Trial That Defined A Nation, In 1838, eleven convicts and former convicts were put on trial for the brutal murder of 28 Aboriginal men, women and children at Myall Creek in New South Wales. The …2019-12-13 16:10:36
Tasmania the Turnaround State, In 2014, The Hon Will Hodgman led his Liberal Party to am historic win in the Tasmanian state elections. On a visit to Sydney, on Wednesday 23 October 2019, the …2019-12-13 16:10:32
Religious Freedom – Two Views, The Coalition government of Scott Morrison has tasked the Australian Law Reform Commission to review current legislation around religious freedom. This was in response to the recommendations put to the …2019-12-13 16:10:31
Housing In Australia – How The Morrison Government Is Backing Australians’ Housing Choices, Housing has become on of the most pressing issues in Australian politics. The cost of housing, the lack of housing and how to fix the problems. The Hon Michael Sukkar …2019-12-13 16:10:31
The Crisis on Campus, Universities across the Western world are now educating a majority of high school graduates. What are they being taught? How high are standards? Why is freedom of expression under attack …2019-12-13 16:10:31
Israel: Netanyahu, Gant or Other Options, Ehud Ya’ari is an Israel-based Lafer international fellow of The Washington Institute and author of Toward Israeli-Palestinian Disengagement and Peace by Piece: A Decade of Egyptian Policy and Sinai: The …2019-12-13 16:10:30
Billy Hughes at Versailles: The New Evidence, Australia was represented at the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919 by the Prime Minister, the colourful Billy Hughes, whom Woodrow Wilson called “a pestiferous varmint” after their repeated clashes over …2019-12-13 16:10:29
Accelerating R&D in NSW, The Hon Gabrielle Upton MP is Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier of New South Wales. On Monday 25 November, Gabrielle Upton addressed The Sydney Institute to outline a new initiative …2019-12-13 16:10:14
A Pope and a Greenie: Why More Power Should Be Given to Locals, Ninety years ago, Pope Pius XI warned against the problems of taking power away from individual communities when he coined the modern principle of “subsidiarity”. The malaise affecting modern, western …2019-12-13 16:10:12
Sydney – What is to be Done?, Australia’s premier city of Sydney has its development problems – and issues of debate. Trams in George Street, high rise in Pyrmont, homeless people in parks and streets, bike lanes …2019-12-13 16:10:08
The Crisis on Campus, Universities across the Western world are now educating a majority of high school graduates. What are they being taught? How high are standards? Why is freedom of expression under attack …2019-12-13 16:10:06
A Year to Remember – How the Coalition Went from Chaos to Comeback, Disunity is said to be death in politics – but not for Scott Morrison’s Liberal Party in election 2019. Morrison and his team took their chance and won a remarkable …2019-12-13 16:10:05
Australian Labor – Looking Back and the Way Forward, Dr Adrian Pabst is Reader in Politics at Kent University and author Story of Our Country: Labor’s vision for Australia.  In 2018, Adrian Pabst spent months in Australia researching Labor’s appeal, …2019-12-13 16:09:35
Australia and the Pacific – Their Prosperity is Our Prosperity, The strategic, economic, technological and environmental changes taking place in the Indo-Pacific, including increased investment and competition for influence, present both opportunities and challenges for our region. Through the Pacific …2019-12-13 16:09:35
Iran and the United States: An Update, Behnam Ben Taleblu is a senior fellow at Foundation For The Defence of Democracies (FDD) where he focuses on Iranian security and political issues. Behnam previously served as a research …2019-12-03 12:55:56
MOBILITY, DRIVING INNOVATION AND ENHANCING OUR LIVEABILITY – TRANSPORT AS A TRUE TECH BUSINESS, With the NSW Berejiklian Government’s win at the state election in March 2019, issues around transport in Sydney and NSW took centre stage as vast underway projects started coming to …2019-07-18 09:47:42
LABOR AFTER THE 2019 FEDERAL ELECTION – WHERE TO NEXT?, Michael Sexton SC is the NSW Solicitor General and author of The Great Crash: the short life and sudden death of the Whitlam Government. Brad Norington is Associate Editor at The Australian …2019-07-16 11:37:56
LISTENING TO THE NATION – WHAT DO AUSTRALIANS MOST WANT FROM THEIR GOVERNMENT?, Rebecca Huntley is a social Researcher and author, most recently of the Quarterly Essay Australia Fair. Dr Tanveer Ahmed is a psychiatrist, a regular contributor to the Australian Financial Review and author, most recently, …2019-07-16 11:31:00
WHERE TO NOW? LABOR AFTER THE 2019 FEDERAL ELECTION, Brad Norington is the Associate Editor at The Australian and has been writing about national and international politics over two decades. He was alsoThe Australian’s Washington Correspondent during the Obama presidency. …2019-07-16 11:29:16
FEDERATION’S MAN OF LETTERS – PATRICK McMAHON GLYNN, On Thursday 6 June 2019, the Vice-Chancellor of Australian Catholic University, Professor Greg Craven, joined The Sydney Institute’s Anne Henderson to launch the P M Glynn Institute’s Federation’s Man of …2019-07-16 11:05:07
TAKING BACK THE CLASSROOM – RECLAIMING EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA, Dr Catherine Runcie is a contributing editor of Reclaiming Education: Renewing Schools and Universities in Contemporary Western Culture and David Furse-Roberts, Research fellow at the Menzies Research Centre and editor of Menzies …2019-07-16 10:57:41
DONALD TRUMP’S MIDDLE EAST POLICY, Michael Doran is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC. He specialises in Middle East security issues. In the administration of President George W. Bush, Doran served …2019-07-16 10:43:55
REVISITING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF ROBERT MENZIES, Who was Robert Menzies, what did he stand for, what did he achieve. Columnist with The Australian and author – most recently – of Robert Menzies The Art of Politics, Troy Bramston …2019-07-16 10:42:37
AUSTRALIA VOTED – AN EVENING AFTER THE ELECTION, On Saturday 18 May 2019, Australia voted and the opinion polls were wrong. Prime Minister Scott Morrison pulled off what had been predicted to be an impossible win. In March …2019-07-16 10:38:22
LISTENING TO THE NATION – WHAT DO AUSTRALIANS MOST WANT FROM THEIR GOVERNMENT?, Rebecca Huntley is a social Researcher and author, most recently of the Quarterly Essay Australia Fair. Dr Tanveer Ahmed is a psychiatrist, a regular contributor to the Australian Financial Review and author, most recently, …2019-07-16 10:26:48
THE BATTLE FOR LAE AND THE PACIFIC WAR, The capture of Lae was the most complex operation for the Australian army in the Second World War. In many ways it was also a rehearsal for the D-Day invasion …2019-07-16 10:12:40
WRITING BIOGRAPHY IN THE 21ST CENTURY – THE LIFE OF WILLIAM MCMAHON AND OTHERS, Today, biographies seek to reveal and understand the lives of their subjects, shedding light on both their times and the people who rose in them, while avoiding the temptation to …2019-07-16 10:08:08
STATECRAFT AND WORLD ORDER        , The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought …2019-07-15 15:03:56
CHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH – KING OF THE AIR, Charles Kingsford Smith was the most commanding flyer of the golden age of aviation. In three short years, he broke records with his astounding and daring voyages: the first trans-Pacific …2019-07-15 14:36:06
LAUNCHING FEDERATION’S MAN OF LETTERS – PATRICK MCMAHON GLYNN, On Thursday 6 June 2019, the Vice-Chancellor of Australian Catholic University, Professor Greg Craven, joined The Sydney Institute’s Anne Henderson to launch the P M Glynn Institute’s Federation’s Man of …2019-07-15 14:13:16
 FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND THE MEDIA, Australian Federal Police raids on the offices of the ABC and the home of a journalist with The Australian provoked a heated debate over press freedom in Australia during June …2019-07-15 14:08:58
AUSTRALIA VOTES – AN EVENING AFTER THE ELECTION, On Saturday 18 May 2019, Australia voted and the opinion polls were wrong. Prime Minister Scott Morrison pulled off what had been predicted to be an impossible win. In March …2019-07-02 16:00:32
ROBERT MENZIES’ PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION, David Furse-Roberts, Research fellow at the Menzies Research Centre and editor of Menzies – The Forgotten Speeches joined forces with Dr Catherine Runcie, contributing editor of Reclaiming Education: Renewing Schools and Universities …2019-06-18 15:04:23
HOW THE GREAT NAVIGATOR MISSED BASS STRAIT– LOOKING BACK AT JAMES COOK, Margaret Cameron-Ash is the author of Lying for the Admiralty: Captain Cook’s Endeavour Voyage. In her book, she mounts a strong circumstantial case that Cook both discovered Bass Strait and actually …2019-06-18 14:58:37
THE CROATIAN SIX – AN OLD TERRORISM PANIC, One summer night in 1979, Roger Rogerson and a posse of tough Sydney cops raided a Sydney house where sticks of gelignite were discovered. The Croatian family’s young men were …2019-06-18 14:03:29
Has Politics Really Changed – from Menzies to Morrison, At The Sydney Institute’s Annual Dinner held at The Star on Wednesday 27 March 2019, the Institute celebrated its thirtieth year. Guest speaker at the dinner was The Hon John …2019-04-15 09:33:35
Welfare, Personal Responsibility and the Cashless Debit Card, On Monday 25 March 2019, The Hon Paul Fletcher MP, Minister for Families and Social Services, addressed The Sydney Institute. Paul Fletcher is the Member for Bradfield and entered parliament …2019-04-15 09:33:13
What’s Wrong with North Fitzroy?, Most of the Victorian terraces and workers’ cottages in inner Melbourne (and Sydney/Brisbane) have been thoroughly renovated by affluent professional couples and are valued in seven figures. And the pensioners, …2019-04-15 09:32:00
Communications Policy in Australia – The Road Ahead, With the polls suggesting that a Labor win at the 2019 federal election – due in May  – was all but a certainty, The Sydney Institute invited Labor MP and …2019-04-15 09:31:18
Escaping from the Rat Race – A Cradle Mountain Love Story, Gustav Weindorfer arrived in Melbourne from Austria in June 1900 and later met and married Tasmanian Kate Cowle. Their love of the natural and wild led them to Cradle Mountain …2019-04-15 09:30:49
An Evening Before the Election, With a federal election looming by May 2019, and the polls for many months predicting an easy win for the Labor opposition led by Bill Shorten, The Sydney Institute held …2019-04-15 09:30:10
An Evening Before the Election, With a federal election looming by May 2019, and the polls for many months predicting an easy win for the Labor opposition led by Bill Shorten, The Sydney Institute held …2019-04-15 09:25:30
Arguing with Family Ghosts – The Unsafe Memoir, Geoffrey Lehmann – writer, poet and tax lawyer – has written his memoirs which he has entitled Leeward – A Memoir. Old Sydney is part of Lehmann’s identity – its harbour …2019-04-15 09:24:53
Crafting the Nation: The Story of a Banner, a Bicentennial and a Berth in the Big House of Australian Democracy, Dr Clare Wright is Associate Professor of History at La Trobe University and author of (most recently) You Daughters of Freedom. In an address to The Sydney Institute on Wednesday …2019-04-15 09:22:41
Voluntary Euthanasia: Impacts on Individuals and Society, The Rev Peter Kurti is Senior Research Fellow, Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society program at the Centre for Independent Studies and an author, most recently, of Euthanasia – Putting The Culture …2019-04-15 09:20:47
Voluntary Euthanasia: Impacts on Individuals and Society, The Rev Peter Kurti is Senior Research Fellow, Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society program at the Centre for Independent Studies and an author, most recently, of Euthanasia – Putting The Culture …2019-04-15 09:20:21
Democratic Pushback: How to Confront the New Authoritarian Powers without Going to War, In the last week of federal parliament prior to Christmas 2018, Michael Danby MHR introduced a Private Member’s Bill to have Australia adopt a Global Magnitsky Act against authoritarian powers’ …2019-04-15 09:19:49
Australia and China – Different Views, , The Hon Bob Carr, former NSW premier and author and Dr Alan Dupont, founder and CEO of Cognoscenti are both close watchers of Australian-Chinese relations. Yet they differ on how …2019-04-15 09:18:04
Religious Schools and the Sex Discrimination Act, In November 2017, in the midst of parliamentary debate about how to legislate marriage equality after the historic yes vote, the Turnbull government asked former attorney general Philip Ruddock to …2019-04-15 09:16:09
Religious Schools and the Sex Discrimination Act, In November 2017, in the midst of parliamentary debate about how to legislate marriage equality after the historic yes vote, the Turnbull government asked former attorney general Philip Ruddock to …2019-04-15 09:15:03
Creating Opportunity and Encouraging Aspiration: The Key to a Growing Economy and a Stronger Australia, , The Hon Josh Frydenberg was elected Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party on August 2018. Prime Minister Scott Morrison soon after appointed him Australia’s treasurer. As the member for Kooyong …2019-04-15 09:14:18
Political Choices Matter, On Monday 17 December 2018, The Hon Mathias Cormann – Australia’s Finance minister – addressed The Sydney Institute. It was the day the Morrison Government had released its Mid-Year Economic …2018-12-18 13:15:19
International Relations, The Hon Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia, addressed The Sydney Institute on Saturday 15 December 2018. His speech was a wide ranging and comprehensive review of the government’s approach …2018-12-18 13:14:15
Growth: Why it Matters, Grant King is President of the Business Council of Australia. In an address to The Sydney Institute on Monday 10 December 2018. Grant King outlined why good economic growth equals …2018-12-13 10:40:20
James Packer and His World, The Packer family – Sir Frank Packer, Kerry Packer and James Packer – has dominated Australia’s media and gaming world for decades. In 2019, James Packer opened up about life …2018-12-13 10:24:34
Enid Lyons: Her Life and Times, To mark the 75th anniversary of Dame Enid Lyons’s maiden speech in the House of Representatives in September 1943, the Menzies Research Centre produced an anniversary edition of Anne Henderson’s …2018-12-13 09:58:47
Ending the Culture Wars, Across the Western world, nations are dividing along sharply separated lines around identity and individual belief structures. Some columnists write that traditional institutions are under threat as cynicism and disruptive action around campuses …2018-12-10 14:23:11
The Art of Counter-Terrorism, Professor Boaz Ganor is Dean & Ronald Lauder Chair for Counter-Terrorism, Lauder School of Government; Founder & Executive Director, International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, Israel. On a visit to Australia in, …2018-12-07 12:27:46
Why I Am No Longer A Feminist, Bettina Arndt completed a Master of Clinical Psychology before becoming well known as one of Australia’s first sex therapists. She is also a commentator and author, most recently of #MenToo. Bettina …2018-12-06 15:29:31
Australia’s Part in Man’s First Walk on The Moon, Many still remain unaware of the significant role played by Honeysuckle Creek, near Canberra, in the telecast of man’s first steps on the moon. The NSW town of Parkes has …2018-11-30 11:16:32
John Russell: And the Importance of the Australian Arts Documentary, , He grew up in Sydney’s Darlinghurst, but Australian John Russell was to become one of the most influential impressionist painters in 19th-century France. He was friends with Rodin, painted with …2018-11-26 09:19:25
Villers-Bretonneux: What Really Happened, In March 1918, the Germans launched an immense offensive that led to Britain’s gravest crisis of WWI. There was widespread concern — under-recognised today — that after years of terrible …2018-11-21 11:29:45
Enid Lyons – Her Life and Times, To mark the 75th anniversary of Dame Enid Lyons’s maiden speech in the House of Representatives in September 1943, the Menzies Research Centre produced an anniversary edition of Anne Henderson’s …2018-11-08 13:32:24
The Snowy Hydro Legacy Fund, The Hon John Barilaro is the NSW Deputy Premier, Minister for Regional New South Wales, Minister for Skills and Minister for Small Business. He is also the leader of the …2018-11-08 13:23:11
Australian Federal Politics on the Eve of The Wentworth By-Election, In August 2018, the Westminster system of government took its toll, yet again, of an Australian prime minister. And, after three weeks of parliamentary power play, former PM Malcolm Turnbull …2018-11-07 12:31:55
Twentieth Century Communism – What Millennials Need to Know, The evil of totalitarian Nazism is a living memory, due in particular to the establishment of Holocaust museums. However, memory of totalitarian communism – in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, …2018-11-07 12:20:56
Fighting Back to Preserve our Freedom, The Hon Dominic Perrottet MP has been the New South Wales Treasurer and the Minister for Industrial Relations since January 2017 in the Berejiklian Government. Perrottet was also elected as …2018-10-26 13:43:06
Rusted Off: Navigating the Gulf between Parliament and Rural Australia, Gabrielle Chan is a journalist who became a farmer. In her new book Rusted Off, she looks to her own rural community’s main street for answers to the big questions driving …2018-10-26 13:24:10
The Internet – Not an Ungoverned Space, The internet is arguably the greatest technological development in human history, enabling people and business to connect and engage in ways never thought possible. But it has also produced its …2018-10-26 12:52:17
Australian Federal Politics on the Eve of The Wentworth By-Election, In August 2018, the Westminster system of government took its toll, yet again, of an Australian prime minister. And, after three weeks of parliamentary power play, former PM Malcolm Turnbull …2018-10-26 10:19:08
Rotten Luck and Self-Inflicted Wounds – How the U.S. Pollsters Failed in the 2016 Presidential Election and Why a Similar Result is Unlikely in Australia, Martin O’Shannessy is a partner at OmniPoll and a former CEO of Newspoll with a 100 per cent record of calling state and federal election outcomes. Polling is now part …2018-10-26 09:18:38
Australia, the Soviet Union & the Cold War – and Russia Today, Professor Paul Dibb works at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the ANU, is a former defence intelligence official and is the author of (most recently) Inside the Wilderness of …2018-10-26 09:06:43
Absolute Power – God, Belief and The Pope, In 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom: The Papal States had been swept away and Rome seized by the revolutionary French armies. The cardinals were scattered across Europe, and …2018-10-04 15:33:59
Liberal Party Women MPs – Where Are They?, August 2018 marked the 75th anniversary of the first Australian woman to be elected to the House of Representatives – Dame Enid Lyons, who stood for the United Australia Party, …2018-09-11 14:27:17
The Power of the Pope, In 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom: The Papal States had been swept away and Rome seized by the revolutionary French armies. The cardinals were scattered across Europe, and …2018-09-11 13:59:44
The Sydney Opera House: Its History and its People, The best loved building in Australia nearly didn’t get off the drawing board. When it did, the lives of everyone involved in its construction were utterly changed: some for the …2018-09-11 13:33:13
The Case for English: Why a Shared Language is Key to Social Cohesion and Economic Success, The Hon Alan Tudge is Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs. In a speech to The Sydney Institute on Thursday 14 June 2018, Minister Tudge outlined the many reasons for …2018-09-11 12:22:01
Transforming Australia into an Outward-Looking Economy: Why the 1940s Matter, David Vines is Emeritus Professor of Economics and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College at the University of Oxford. He is also the Director of the Ethics and Economics Programme at …2018-09-10 11:25:03
The Queen’s Role in the Appointment and Dismissal of the Governor General, Professor Anne Twomey is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Sydney. She is the author of (most recently) The Veiled Sceptre – Reserve Powers of Heads of State …2018-09-10 10:48:58
Cambodia: After the Election, Ms. Monovithya Kem is a member of the Permanent Committee of Cambodia’s principal opposition party, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). Within the Public Affairs Directorate, she oversees the departments …2018-09-07 14:08:41
The Liberal Party’s Women MPs – Where are They?, August 2018 marked the 75th anniversary of the first Australian woman to be elected to the House of Representatives – Dame Enid Lyons, who stood for the United Australia Party, …2018-09-07 13:53:42
The Liberal Party’s Women MPs – Where are They?, August 2018 marked the 75th anniversary of the first Australian woman to be elected to the House of Representatives – Dame Enid Lyons, who stood for the United Australia Party, …2018-09-07 12:25:31
My Life In Journalism: From Adelaide to London and New York, Fifty-two years after being sent out to buy a sandwich for his first boss, one Rupert Murdoch, when Les finally left Murdoch’s employment in 2011, the business of news had …2018-09-07 12:08:50
Partnering with our Cities, The Hon Anthony Albanese is Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Cities & Regional Development. Anthony Albanese, who grew up in public housing in the inner Sydney suburb of Camperdown, was …2018-09-07 11:40:31
On Disruption: A Report from the Australian Coalface, The internet has shaken the foundations of life: public and private lives are wrought by the 24-hour, seven-day-a-week news cycle that means no one is ever off duty. Katharine Murphy …2018-09-07 11:22:36
Australian Freedom and an Australian Modern Slavery Act, Assistant Home Affairs Minister Alex Hawke says as many as 4000 Australians are victims of modern slavery, found in mines, factories, brothels, construction sites and farms around the world. Under …2018-09-07 11:13:15
The Year That Changed Everything, 2001 marked the halfway point of 20 years of continuous economic growth in Australia. In Sydney, the median house price was $322,500, a loaf of bread cost $2.30 and a …2018-09-07 10:54:38
A Silent Force – Colonial Businesswomen in Sydney, Dr Catherine Bishop is an Honorary Associate of the History faculty at the University of Sydney and also the Author of Minding Her Own Business – Colonial Businesswomen in Sydney which …2018-09-07 10:45:02
Syria 2.0: The Current Situation in Syria and How it Affects The Region, Dr Jonathan Spyer is a Jerusalem-based journalist and author and an analyst with the Jerusalem Institute of Strategic Studies. Spyer has been covering the rumble and crumble of Iraq and …2018-09-07 10:14:58
Home Affairs: Our Achievements and Views to the Future, The Hon Peter Dutton is the Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Mr Dutton was sworn in as Minister for Home Affairs in December 2017. …2018-07-03 12:56:05
Budget 2018: The Aftermath, Budget 2018 handed down by Treasurer Scott Morrison on Tuesday 8 May 2018 was described by the Australian Institute of Company Directors as “heroic” in its wage growth forecasts, by …2018-07-03 12:54:39
Budget 2018: The Aftermath, Budget 2018 handed down by Treasurer Scott Morrison on Tuesday 8 May 2018 was described by the Australian Institute of Company Directors as “heroic” in its wage growth forecasts, by …2018-07-03 12:54:00
Catholic Schools – the Education Option Australia Can’t do Without, With 2018 changes in the administration of funding to Australian schools, low paying systemic non-denominational schools will lose millions, in particular Catholic schools. The funding model has been questioned and …2018-07-03 12:53:18
Owning the Future, On Thursday 3 May 2018, The Hon Gladys Berejiklian gave The Sydney Institute Annual Dinner address for 2018. Ms Berejiklian was introduced by The Hon John Howard and the vote …2018-07-03 12:52:19
The Sydney Institute Annual Dinner – Introduction to the Premier, On Thursday 3 May 2018, The Hon Gladys Berejiklian gave The Sydney Institute Annual Dinner address for 2018. Ms Berejiklian was introduced by The Hon John Howard and the vote …2018-07-03 12:51:55
The AIF Heroes of Tobruk, El Alamein, New Guinea and Borneo, Dr Mark Johnston is an Australian historian, teacher and author. He is currently the Head of History at the Scotch College in Melbourne. He has written several publications about Australian …2018-07-03 12:51:01
Jewish Settlement in Australia – The Aunt’s Mirrors, Settlers with Jewish religious or cultural backgrounds have been part of Terra Australis since the First Fleet landed in 1788. As early as 1844 the first synagogue was formed in …2018-07-03 12:50:26
Revolutions, and the Revolutionary Ideas of Edmund Burke, Dr Jesse Norman, an author and writer, is Member of Parliament for Hereford and South Herefordshire and UK Minister for Roads. He is also one of the rising stars in …2018-07-03 12:50:23
Jewish Settlement in Australia, Settlers with Jewish religious or cultural backgrounds have been part of Terra Australia since the First Fleet landed in 1788. As early as 1844 the first synagogue was formed in …2018-07-03 12:49:17
Pol Pot Solved the Leprosy Crisis, Dr Milton Osborne is a former Australian diplomat and author, most recently, of Pol Pot Solved the Leprosy Problem. Milton Osborne’s early experience in Australia’s Phnom Penh embassy shaped the …2018-07-02 12:35:33
Solutions for a Society Facing New Threats, The Hon Angus Taylor is the Minister for Law Enforcement & Cyber Security and the Member for Hume. He grew up on a up on a sheep and cattle property …2018-07-02 12:27:07
Myanmar and The Rohingya Crisis, Myanmar, today, is enmeshed in a humanitarian crisis of staggering proportions – the Rohingya Crisis as it’s commonly known.  The nature of events has seen Bangladesh now hosting upwards of …2018-05-31 14:58:28
The Trump Administration and the US Economy, Key economic indicators have judged the current US economy to be in good health. Inflation is low and US manufacturing is picking up. Employment figures are improving but structural unemployment …2018-05-22 10:59:26
Cardinal Gilroy, In 2018, historian Dr John Luttrell, a lecturer in Church history in tertiary institutions in Australia for many years, published the first full biography of Australia’s first Australian born cardinal. …2018-05-22 10:35:54
Australia’s Women Writers in a Man’s World, Gwen Harwood, Ruth Park, Dorothy Hewitt and Christina Stead – all went on to become notable Australian writers. They were very different women from very different backgrounds, but they shared …2018-05-22 10:35:16
A Cardinal and Servant – Norman Thomas Gilroy, In 2018, historian Dr John Luttrell, a lecturer in Church history in tertiary institutions in Australia for many years, published the first full biography of Australia’s first Australian born cardinal. …2018-05-18 12:26:20
Turnbull, Joyce, Shorten and all that – What’s Happening?, In  2018, Australian federal politics went through some headline grabbing times – but what to make of the froth and bubble in much of the turmoil? Is social media out …2018-05-18 12:12:57
Turnbull, Joyce, Shorten and all that – What’s Happening?, In  2018, Australian federal politics went through some headline grabbing times – but what to make of the froth and bubble in much of the turmoil? Is social media out …2018-05-18 12:02:41
China’s Growing Influence on the West – and its Politics, Chris Chappell is the host of New York’s China Uncensored, an online show that entertains while reporting on China. Says Chappell of his show, “I like humour and really ultimately I …2018-05-18 11:44:42
The Value of Private Health Insurance, Senator Richard Di Natale is the Leader of the Greens Party and was first elected to the Senate at the federal election of 2010. A former general practitioner, Di Natale …2018-05-18 11:34:45
Sulman – Prodigy of His Generation, The Annual Sulman Art Prize awarded by the Art Gallery of NSW is named after him, John Longstaff’s portrait of him won the Archibald Prize in 1931 and he is …2018-05-18 11:25:15
Wednesdays on My Mind – Seeing The World with Bob Hawke, , The Hon Bob Hawke was one of the most popular Australian prime ministers who lived his life in a privately adventurous bubble that never held him back – whether the …2018-05-18 11:17:22
Australian Politics Today, Former prime minister, The Hon Tony Abbott MP, has a lot to say about politics in Australia. In a speech to The Sydney Institute on Tuesday 20 February 2018, Tony …2018-05-18 11:08:15
Managing Climate-Related Financial Risk – Lessons from Adani, The Hon Mark Butler has been the Labor Member for Port Adelaide in the federal parliament since 2007 and is the Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy. As Shadow …2018-05-18 11:01:49
The Trump Administration and the Middle East, Dr Jonathan Schanzer oversees the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ research. He worked as a terrorism finance analyst at the US Department of the Treasury, where he played an integral …2018-05-18 10:41:49
Caroline Chisholm – A Game-Changer in Early Australia, Caroline Chisholm was a take-no-prisoners game-changer of colonial Australia – as well as a charming, wholly committed, and utterly determined force of nature. Arriving in Australia in 1838, she was …2018-05-18 10:35:14
Old Wine In New Bottles – Strengthening Liberal Values, The Hon Kelly O’Dwyer was appointed as the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services in the Turnbull Government in July 2016. In December 2017, she was also appointed as the …2018-05-18 10:20:00
Race, Politics and Changing Australia, Warren Mundine AO IS A former ALP president, Abbott Government adviser and author of Warren Mundine in Black and White. Warren Mundine believes that Indigenous potential is real and – as …2018-01-30 12:15:53
The Rainbow in Asia, With Australia’s historic legislative change to its Marriage Act to allow marriage between gay couples, a new age has begun Down Under. But not so for many of Australia’s nearest …2018-01-22 11:01:29
The Great Barrier Reef, and the Need for Better Quality Assurance Processes in Science, What are the disputed facts on climate science? The debate is widening as scientists disagree on weather measurements and coral bleaching. Earlier this year, Jennifer Marohasy challenged the CSIRO’s weather …2018-01-22 11:00:31
Beersheba 1917-2017: The Commemoration, The Park of the Australian Soldier in Beersheba is dedicated in the memory of the Australian Light Horse Regiment, and was developed as a permanent memorial by the Pratt Foundation in …2018-01-22 10:48:25
Collaboration and Compassion: Hallmarks of a Modern Liberal Government, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian addressed The Sydney Institute on Thursday, 9 November 2017. In her address, the premier  argued the case for liberalism within the context of the Liberal Party …2018-01-22 10:45:37
Peter Hall and The Sydney Opera House, In her recently published The Poisoned Chalice: Peter Hall and The Sydney Opera House, architecture and design curator Dr Anne Watson has forensically researched the story of the building the …2018-01-22 10:42:20
Security and Australia in the Pacific, From the first years of federation, the Australian government has taken the view that Australia has responsibilities to its nearest neighbours in the Pacific. That relationship has waxed and waned …2018-01-22 10:28:14
After the Fall of the Caliphate: International Terrorism’s On-Going Concerns & Challenges, Defeated in Iraq, the ISIS inspired terrorist movement is by no means dead. Terrorism expert Dr Sajjan Gohel, speaking after London Bridge and Borough Market terrorist attacks in 2017, has …2018-01-17 13:35:37
Good Tidings: A Book for Your Neighbour on Climate, The debate on climate change is widening as scientists disagree on weather measurements and coral bleaching. Earlier this year, Jennifer Marohasy challenged the CSIRO’s weather and temperature measuring methods and …2018-01-17 11:54:40
Technological Change: Making the Most of the Technological Revolution, Digital disruption is contributing to a flakiness in Western governments as phenomena such as 24/7 news, fake news and technological disruption threaten stability. How to deal with it is a …2018-01-17 11:43:27
The Poisoned Chalice – Peter Hall and The Sydney Opera House, Dr Anne Watson is a design curator and writer whose specialist areas include the history of the Sydney Opera House and the lives and work of Walter Burley Griffin and …2018-01-17 10:39:48
The Protestant Reformation: 500 Years On, Peter Elliott is an Auxiliary Bishop in the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne, with responsibility  for the Southern Region of the Archdiocese.  He is Director of the John Paul II Institute …2017-11-28 10:34:42
The West after the Protestant Reformation, 500 Years On- Catholic and Protestant: an Anglican Perspective, Rev Canon Professor Scott Cowdell is Canon Theologian of the Canberra-Goulburn Diocese and the author of seven books exploring Christian faith and contemporary culture, most recently Abiding Faith: Christianity Beyond Certainty, …2017-11-28 10:34:12
The Protestant Reformation- 500 Years On, Frank Brennan SJ AO is Chief Executive Officer of Catholic Social Services Australia. His many books include books on Aboriginal issues such as The Wik Debate, One Land One Nation, Sharing …2017-11-28 10:32:56
Discussion Chaired by Geraldine Doogue with Professor Megan Davis, Danny Gilbert AM & Noel Pearson, , , , On Monday 23 October 2017, Danny Gilbert, Co-Chair of the Cape York Partnership Group and Co-founder and Managing Partner of the law firm Gilbert & Tobin, initiated a Sydney Institute …2017-11-28 10:23:18
Constitutional Recognition after the Uluru Statement from the Heart, Danny Gilbert AM is Co-Chair of the Cape York Partnership Group and Co-founder and Managing Partner of the law firm Gilbert & Tobin. On Monday 23 October 2017, Danny Gilbert …2017-11-28 10:21:00
Is Life too Short for Politics?, Terri Butler MP is Shadow Assistant Minister for Preventing Family Violence, Shadow Assistant Minister for Universities and Shadow Assistant Minister for Equality. Sje is also the federal member for Griffith. …2017-11-28 10:19:17
Reflecting on Edmund Burke and Australia’s Liberal Party, The Hon Tony Abbott MP was prime minister of Australia from September 2013 to September 2015. In Damien Freeman’s Abbott’s Right he is seen as a conservative in the tradition …2017-11-28 10:18:09
Edmund Burke’s Conservatism and Tony Abbott’s Policy Making, In spite of being a Rhodes Scholar, some commentators believed Tony Abbott offered nothing more than three-word slogans. Damien Freeman, writer, lawyer and philosopher, has now published Abbott’s Right. In it, …2017-11-28 10:13:23
Australia, the Region and the US Alliance, After North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear test in the first week of September 2017, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Minister of Defence Senator Marise Payne issued their strongest …2017-11-28 10:11:01
Sydney Noir – Prosperity and Crime, 1966 to 1972, Michael 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 …2017-11-28 10:05:58
China’s Baby Trade, Former Foreign Correspondent journalist and host of ABC TV’s “One Plus One”, Jane Hutcheon met Linda Shum, a not-so-ordinary grandmother and widow from Gympie whose compassion for China’s forgotten children …2017-11-28 09:53:41
Pompey Elliott at War, Ross McMullin is an historian and biographer who has written extensively about Australia’s involvement in World War I. Dr McMullin’s biographies include the award-winning Pompey Elliott and Will Dyson: Australia’s radical genius. His …2017-11-27 10:47:49
Remembering Alfred Deakin, Professor Judith Brett has produced a new biography of Alfred Deakin – The Enigmatic Mr Deakin – Australia’s second prime minister, to shine fresh light on one of the nation’s …2017-09-13 10:55:49
Australia’s Workplace Relations Framework: The Case for Reform, An outspoken critic of the CFMEU and the influence of trade unions on members of the Labor caucus, Martin Ferguson is the maverick voice of the ALP. A former minister …2017-09-12 14:37:56
Joseph Lyons and the Management of Debt, Three figures emerged from the fracas in Australia brought on by the stock market crash of 1929 and the Depression which followed. These political players were the federal treasurer “Red …2017-09-12 14:37:53
Identity and the Politics of Place- Why Australia Is on the Road to Somewhere, Respect for traditional Western institutions is at an all time low. Education, social media and the many variations of the “world wide web” have given individuals a sense of power …2017-09-12 14:37:51
Identity, Tolerance, and the Politics of Place, Respect for traditional Western institutions is at an all time low. Education, social media and the many variations of the “world wide web” have given individuals a sense of power …2017-09-12 14:37:49
The Changing Face of the Labour Market: Where to From Here?, The Hon Brendan O’Connor is Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and the Member for Gorton. As unions herald an aggressive campaign, claiming that the current industrial relations system is “broken­”, …2017-09-12 14:37:47
Policies for Opportunity VS Politics of Envy, Senator The Hon Mathias Cormann has been Australia’s finance minister since September 2013. In a speech to The Sydney Institute on Wednesday 23 August 2017, Senator Cormann attacked the populist …2017-09-12 14:37:45
Israel in a Changing Middle East, The impact of Iran, Islamic State and the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East has changed the region. Israel, the only democracy in the region, has improved relations with Egypt, …2017-09-12 14:37:43
A Changing Australian Religious Landscape, Dr Ruth Powell has been a researcher and writer with the National Church Life Survey Research since 1991, completing her PhD on age differences among church attenders. Prior to becoming Director …2017-09-12 14:37:37
Jane and D’Arcy: Fact and Fiction, As a nephew of The Hon Bill Wentworth MP, Wal Walker heard the Wentworth family story handed down the generation in Sydney. Asked by his uncle in his last years …2017-09-12 14:36:57
Lessons in Terror: the Lindt Café Siege and Brighton Attack, Janet Fife-Yeomans is Chief Reporter with the The Daily Telegraph, a best selling author and award winning journalist. In May 2017, Janet Fife-Yeomans wrote a series of articles for The Daily …2017-09-12 14:36:44
Australia: A Small Business Success, The Hon Michael McCormack MP, a National Party MP, is the Minister for Small Business and the Member for Riverina. Before entering politics, Michael McCormack was a journalist and editor …2017-09-12 14:33:28
Money, Men and Depression- “Red” Ted Theodore, Three figures emerged from the fracas in Australia brought on by the stock market crash of 1929 and the Depression which followed. These political players were “Red Ted” Theodore, Joseph …2017-09-12 14:33:19
Why Muslims are the World’s Fastest-growing Religious Group, Dr Conrad Hackett is associate director of research and senior demographer at Pew Research Center. He works in international religious demography, sociology of religion, and how religion relates to characteristics including …2017-09-12 14:33:00
Australia’s Workplace Relations Framework: The Case for Reform, , Following Martin Ferguson’s address to The Sydney Institute on Tuesday 8 August, Jennifer Hewett, National Affairs Columnist for The Australian Financial Review, discussed some of the issues he had raised …2017-09-12 13:44:12
Why Marriage Is Too Risky For Men, Karen Straughan is a Canadian spokesperson for Men’s Rights who featured prominently in the controversial film The Red Pill. In 2013, Karen created her YouTube channel What Girls Write. She has used …2017-07-12 13:32:39
How Victoria Differs from New South Wales and Tasmania – AN Historical Case Study, Patrick Morgan has published and edited a number of books on topics where history, literature and politics converge. His most recent book is The Vandemonian Trail – Convicts and Bushrangers …2017-07-12 13:29:17
Low Wage Growth Risks Australia’s Future Prosperity, The Hon Tanya Plibersek is Deputy Leader of the Federal Opposition, Shadow Minister for Education & Shadow Minister for Women. With Labor well placed to defeat the Liberal/National Government of …2017-07-12 13:28:07
Ways Forward for Women in the Workplace, Television journalist and presenter Tracey Spicer was always the good girl. Inspired by Jana Wendt, this bogan from the Brisbane backwaters waded through the “cruel and shallow money trench” of …2017-07-12 13:28:00
Pauline Hanson: One Nation & The Politics of Race, David Marr, journalist, author and political & social commentator, is the author (most recently) of Quarterly Essay’s The White Queen – One Nation and The Politics of Race. As Marr …2017-07-12 13:26:58
Sydney’s Anglicans, Rev Canon Dr Bruce Ballantine-Jones OAM is a former member of the Sydney Anglican Synod and the author of Inside Sydney – An insider’s view of the changes and politics in the …2017-07-12 13:26:47
E-Cigarettes. Threat Or Opportunity?, Associate Professor Colin Mendelsohn is a full time Tobacco Treatment Specialist. He is conjoint Associate Professor in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of New …2017-07-12 13:26:37
Martin Sharp: Taking On The Establishment, Martin Sharp’s art was as singular as his style. He blurred the boundaries of high art and low with images of Dylan, Hendrix and naked flower children that defined an …2017-07-12 13:26:30
Family Ties & Euthanasia- The Modern Dilemma, Nikki Gemmell is an internationally acclaimed author, most recently of After,  and a columnist with The Australian. She has written of Australia’s dry centre and the Antarctic, of sex and …2017-07-12 13:25:00
The Federal Budget 2017- Two Views, Sharri Markson is National Political Editor for The Daily Telegraph. Prior to this, Markson became media editor of The Australian in February 2014 where she was noted for her “aggressive …2017-07-12 13:24:53
Federal Budget 2017- Two Views, Mark Di Stefano is BuzzFeed’s political editor based in Australia. He is a former ABC News reporter. Mark regularly appears as a political commentator on ABC’s Insiders, Channel 10’s The Project and on …2017-07-12 13:21:52
Beyond the Tragedy of Otto Warmbier, The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG is an international jurist, educator and former judge. From 1996-2009, he served as a Justice of the High Court of Australia and in 2013-14 he was …2017-07-12 10:10:17
Can Wealth Concentration be Stopped?, Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist, and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of …2017-05-29 13:31:29
Disruption Goes Mainstream: Report From America, The Hon Joe Hockey is Australia’s Ambassador to the United States of America, taking up his posting in Washington in January 2016 after retiring from Australian politics having served as …2017-05-29 13:30:35
Donald Trump and the Trump Phenomenon – An Update, The Donald Trump Administration had forced global politics to accept a new style of leadership from the US. A president who talks tough about America’s place in the world has …2017-05-29 13:21:24
A Personal Journey Into the World of the Brain, Barbara Arrowsmith Young is the Canadian educator, author, entrepreneur and lecturer. She is the founder of Arrowsmith School in Toronto and the controversial Arrowsmith Program which forms the basis of …2017-05-29 13:12:13
Is Good Government Enough?, Transport and infrastructure are transforming city life in New South Wales – especially in the outer areas of western Sydney and the congested parts of inner Sydney. Disruption is part …2017-05-29 13:11:36
Wilmot Verses Blamey, Chester Wilmot (1911–1954) was a renowned Australian war correspondent, broadcaster, journalist and writer. Covering the first triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobruk and Derna, the heartbreaking disaster of the …2017-05-29 13:11:12
Australian War Reporters- John Hinde, Chester Wilmot and More Besides, Tony Hill is the managing editor of ABC News 24, the ABC’s television news channel. As an ABC foreign correspondent in Indo-China/South East Asia and the Middle East he covered …2017-05-29 13:09:15
The State of the Nation- Breakdown or Happiness?, Dr Tanveer Ahmed is a Sydney based psychiatrist working in private practice and the author of Fragile Nation – Vulnerability, Resilience and Victimhood. At a time of increasing unease across …2017-05-29 13:08:19
The State of the Nation – Breakdown or Happiness?, Rebecca Huntley is a researcher on social trends, broadcaster and the author, most recently, of Still Lucky. On Wednesday 22 February 2017, Rebecca Huntley joined psychiatrist Tanveer Ahmed in a discussion …2017-05-29 13:07:53
Ensuring Energy Security and Affordability, as we Transition to a Lower Emissions Future, The Hon Josh Frydenberg is Australia’s Minister for Environment and Energy. With the federal government looking at all options in working to secure the most efficient and  affordable energy for Australians and …2017-05-29 13:07:38
Labor Icons- Lionel Murphy, Stephen Walmsley SC is a former judge of the District Court of NSW and the author of The Trials of Justice Murphy [2016]. In his book, Stephen Walmsley unravels a …2017-05-29 13:07:20
Paul Keating: The Big Picture Leader, Troy Bramston is a senior writer and columnist with The Australian and the author of Paul Keating: The Big-Picture Leader, [2016]. That there is yet more to examine and tell …2017-05-29 13:06:27
The Search for a New National Identity: The Rise of Multiculturalism in Canada and Australia, Dr Jatinder Mann is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London and a former Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta. He is the author of The …2017-05-29 13:05:49
The Australian Dream: Blood, History and Becoming, Stan Grant is Indigenous Affairs editor for the ABC and Chair of Indigenous Affairs at Charles Sturt University. He won the 2015 Walkley Award for coverage of Indigenous Affairs and …2017-05-29 13:05:28
The Red Pill – The Movie About Men’s Lives that Gender Warriors Didn’t Want You to See, The Red Pill is a new documentary that activists have prevented being shown in Australian cinemas. Writer, commentator and blogger Bettina Arndt argues that activists are right to be concerned …2017-05-26 12:01:08
Fighting For the Forgotten People: 75 Years On, Formerly a senior lawyer with the national law firm Freehills in its Perth employment and industrial relations practice, Senator Michaelia Cash was first elected to the Senate in 2007 and took …2017-05-17 16:13:30
Keynote Address at The Sydney Institute’s 2017 Annual Dinner, On Thursday 6 April 2017, at The Star Event Centre in Sydney, The Hon Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister of Australia, delivered The Sydney Institute’s 2017 Annual Dinner Lecture. The Prime …2017-04-06 16:13:15
Victoria’s Secrets, Fifth in line to the throne at the time of her birth, Victoria was an ordinary woman thrust into an extraordinary role when she inherited the British throne at 18. …2016-12-14 00:00:00
Australia’s Secret Cold War, Dr John Blaxland is the co-author of The Secret Cold War, the third and final volume of the Official History of ASIO which uncovers behind the scenes stories of the …2016-12-04 00:00:00
Sir James Plimsoll – Man for All Seasons, Sir James Plimsoll was a remarkable and most influential Australian diplomat in the post war years from the 1950s to the 1980s. He was renowned for his handling of various …2016-11-27 00:00:00
Married With Children, In the heated debate over Same Sex Marriage or Marriage Equality being allowed by law in Australia and the debate over whether there should be a parliamentary vote to enable …2016-11-22 00:00:00
The Injustice Of Marriage Equality, In the heated debate over Same Sex Marriage or Marriage Equality being allowed by law in Australia and the debate over whether there should be a parliamentary vote to enable …2016-11-21 00:00:00
Thea Astley – Iconic Australian Writer and Reluctant Feminist, Dr Karen Lamb is a Senior Lecturer at the Australian Catholic University and the author of Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather for which she was a co-winner of the …2016-11-16 00:00:00
Putting a Price on Australia’s Resources, On Malcolm Turnbull becoming Prime Minister in July 2015, Senator Matthew Canavan was promoted to Cabinet in the role as Minister for Resources in what Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called …2016-11-13 00:00:00
Sir Paul Hasluck And The Menzies Era, Nicholas Hasluck AM QC studied law at the University of Western Australia, then Oxford, before practising law in Perth. He served as a part-time President of the Equal Opportunity Tribunal …2016-11-08 00:00:00
The NBN and Media Regulation – Reshaping the Future, Senator The Hon Mitch Fifield is Manager of Government Business in the Senate, Minister for the Arts and Minister for Communications. The Communications and Arts portfolio touches every home and …2016-10-25 00:00:00
Welfare Reform – Reducing Dependency and Setting Higher Expectations, The Hon Alan Tudge is the Turnbull Government’s Minister for Human Services. As the minister in charge of a 30-year old system that runs Australia’s welfare payments system, he has …2016-10-23 00:00:00
Robert Menzies and the Visual Arts, Australia’s Commonwealth government has been involved in the arts virtually from federation. The visual arts especially attracted government involvement with the 1912 Fisher Government appointment of a Commonwealth Art Advisory …2016-10-17 00:00:00
Making Headlines, Chris Mitchell retired at the end of 2015 after more than 12 years as editor-in-chief of The Australian and 24 years as a daily newspaper editor at The Australian, The …2016-10-10 00:00:00
Politics and the English Language: an Introduction to Professor Barry Spurr, Professor Barry Spurr was a member of the academic staff of the Department of English in the University of Sydney for 40 years and was Australia’s first Professor of Poetry. …2016-10-04 00:00:00
Politics And Language, Professor Barry Spurr was a member of the academic staff of the Department of English in the University of Sydney for 40 years and was Australia’s first Professor of Poetry. …2016-10-04 00:00:00
Telling it Straight: Behind the Albo Bio, In 2016, political reporter Karen Middleton published Albanese – Telling it Straight which chronicles the life and career of Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese (Albo) who learned his political craft among …2016-09-25 00:00:00
The Hilton Bombing – Unravelling The Mysteries, Rachel Landers is the author of Who Bombed the Hilton and Head of Documentary at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. As an award-winning film maker and historian, in …2016-09-22 00:00:00
Why Music Matters, Music can rally armies – for good and evil; it can soothe the soul and recall tragedy. Music brings the touch of a higher presence – whether in our heightened …2016-09-22 00:00:00
The 2016 Election: A Reflection, Caroline Overington is Associate editor of The Australian and an award winning author, most recently of The Last Woman Hanged. During the 2016 election campaign, The Australian Financial Review’s Aaron …2016-09-22 00:00:00
Tom Hughes QC – Many Sides to A Character, For more that 30 years, Tom Hughes, a scion of a notable Sydney family of high achievers, was one of Australia’s top barristers, renowned, respected and sometimes eared for his …2016-09-22 00:00:00
Randolph Stow’s Politics, Novelist and poet Randolph Stowe was an Australia artistic giant who found himself unwelcome in his own land. Why is it that so many creative Australians find their natural surroundings …2016-09-22 00:00:00
Britain: After David Cameron, Brexit And The Chilcot Report, Tom Tugendhat MP is a former Army officer, Foreign Office adviser, fluent Arabic speaker, and now the new Member for the tranquil Kent towns of Tonbridge, Edenbridge and Malling in …2016-09-22 00:00:00
Jobs, Growth And The Importance Of Living Within Our Means, Senator The Hon Mathias Cormann, Australia’s Minister for Finance in the Abbott and Turnbull Governments, has been one of the standout successes of the Turnbull Abbott period of Australian government. …2016-09-22 00:00:00
The Saudi Arabia/Iran Conflict, Simon Henderson is the Baker fellow and director of the Gulf and Energy Policy Program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, specialising in energy matters and the conservative …2016-09-22 00:00:00
Justice Must Serve, The Hon Gabrielle Upton is the Member for Vaucluse and NSW Attorney General. She previously held the position of Minister for Family and Community Services, a role in which she …2016-09-22 00:00:00
Clinton v Trump: American Politics as Reality Television, Matt Bai is the national political columnist for Yahoo! News. Before joining Yahoo, at the end of 2013, he was the chief political correspondent for the New York Times Magazine, …2016-09-22 00:00:00
Planet Australia, On Monday 12 September 2016, The Sydney Institute held a discussion on a challenging new collection of essays on Australia published by Oxford University Press titled Only in Australia. The …2016-09-22 00:00:00
Science Down Under In The Age Of Disruptive Technology, Innovation And Uncertainty, David Thodey, former CEO of Telstra and now Chairman of the CSIRO, is the government’s on-hand adviser in matters of innovation and technology. He also has board advisory roles at …2016-09-22 00:00:00
The 2016 Election: A Reflection, Aaron Patrick is Deputy Editor, The Australian Financial Review & author Credlin & Co – How the Abbott Government Destroyed Itself. During the 2016 election campaign, The Australian’s Caroline Overington …2016-09-22 00:00:00
From Closed Circle to Fault Lines – A Life, Born in Vienna in 1936, David Pryce-Jones is the son of the well-known writer and editor of the Times Literary Supplement Alan Pryce-Jones and Therese “Poppy” Fould-Springer. He grew up …2016-09-19 00:00:00
Why The Democratic Deficit In The NSW Liberals Must Be Fixed, After resounding success at State level in 2011 – after years in opposition – it appears the NSW Liberal Party rank and file, and significant office holders, have serious questions …2016-09-15 00:00:00
Australian Exceptionalism, On Monday 12 September 2016, The Sydney Institute held a discussion on a challenging new collection of essays on Australia published by Oxford University Press titled Only in Australia. The …2016-09-12 00:00:00
The Challenge Of Funding Australia’s Road System, Broadband, transport, cities, environmental issues are just some of the areas that depend on vigorous investment in infrastructure. What is to come, how is it to be paid for and …2016-08-16 00:00:00
Australia’s Strategic Origins In The South Pacific And Its Future In East Asia, The Hon Justice Michael Pembroke SC is a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. He is also a writer and author, most recently, of Arthur Phillip – …2016-08-09 00:00:00
A Practical, Constitutional Promise to do Things with Aborigines, Not to Them, Shireen Morris is a senior policy adviser at Cape York Institute and a PhD candidate at Monash University. She is the co-editor, with Damian Freeman, of The Forgotten People: liberal …2016-06-22 00:00:00
The Killing Season – Behind The Scenes In The Rudd/Gillard Contest, Sarah Ferguson is an ABC journalist. Her TV documentary The Killing Season, on the fall of the Rudd/Gillard partnership, mesmerised viewers. This was followed up by a book version – …2016-06-22 00:00:00
Election Score At Half Time – The Players, The Stumbles, The Issues, Caroline Overington is associate editor at The Australian and award winning author, most recently of The Last Woman Hanged. Overington has written ten books, including seven works of fiction. Her …2016-06-22 00:00:00
Armenia, Australia And The Great War, 24 April 1915 marks the beginning of two great epics of the First World War. It was the day the allied invasion forces set out for Gallipoli; and it marked …2016-06-22 00:00:00
Indigenous Recognition – A Conservative Answer, Julian Leeser, a lawyer by training, was Director of Government Policy & Strategy at the Australian Catholic University before becoming the Liberal Party candidate for Berowra in the 2016 federal …2016-06-22 00:00:00
Election Score At Half Time– The Players, The Stumbles, The Issues, Aaron Patrick is Deputy Editor of The Australian Financial Review and the author Credlin & Co – How the Abbott Government Destroyed Itself. Over 20 years, Aaron Patrick has worked …2016-06-22 00:00:00
The New Economy: More Than Just A Slogan, Senator Richard Di Natale is the leader of the Australian Greens Party. He was elected to the Senate in the 2010 federal election. He is a medical doctor by profession and was …2016-06-21 00:00:00
Green Party Liberal Deal 2016: A Permanent Shift In Australian Politics, Labor MPs representing inner city areas of Melbourne and Sydney – areas that have traditionally been safe Labor –  such as Michael Danby, Tanya Plibersek and Anthony Albanese, have been …2016-06-09 00:00:00
The 2016 Australian Federal Election – The Christian Democratic Party, The Rev Hon Fred Nile is Federal President of the Christian Democratic Party and a member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, a position he has held since …2016-06-09 00:00:00
The 2016 Federal Election – The Australian Sex Party, Professor Ross Fitzgerald AM is the Australian Sex Party’s lead Senate candidate in NSW. He is the author of 39 books, most recently of Going Out Backwards – a sexual/political satire …2016-06-07 00:00:00
The Budget – Some Context, John Fraser was appointed Secretary to the Treasury effective 15 January 2015. Prior to taking the Treasury position, John Fraser was Chairman and CEO of UBS Global Asset Management from …2016-04-29 00:00:00
Israel’s Politics Today, Efraim Inbar is the Director of the Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies, is Professor Emeritus at Bar-Ilan University and Fellow of the Middle East Forum. A Professor in Political …2016-04-29 00:00:00
The Fantasy, The Reality, The Aftermath – One Australian’s Obsession With Paris, Alice Grundy is Managing Editor at Giramondo Publishing. With her partner David Henley, Alice spent a year living in Paris recording their experiences on a website they named “Paris Fixe”. …2016-04-29 00:00:00
Why, Oh Why, Do We Love Paris?, Oleh Butchatsky and Alice Grundy are two very different Australians – in age and in background. One from the business end of busy Sydney; the other from Canberra eager to …2016-04-29 00:00:00
S.T. Gill – Respectable Colonial Painter Or Convict Forger?, One of Australia’s most significant colonial artists was S T Gill. His output was prodigious. Gill’s sketches and paintings are a glimpse of early European settlement in the south eastern …2016-04-29 00:00:00
Modern Government: Less Can Be More, On Monday 29 February 2016, NSW Treasurer The Hon Gladys Berejiklian MP addressed The Sydney Institute with a speech outlining the way ahead for NSW to continue its record breaking …2016-04-29 00:00:00
Australia’s Multiculturalism – Success or Not?, The idea of multiculturalism has always been connected to immigration in Australia, but is not necessarily that. Australians of both immigrant and indigenous heritage have embraced the idea of a …2016-04-29 00:00:00
Australia’s Multiculturalism – Success or Not?, The idea of multiculturalism has always been connected to immigration in Australia, but is not necessarily that. Australians of both immigrant and indigenous heritage have embraced the idea of a …2016-04-29 00:00:00
A New Agenda For Australian Cities, The Hon Anthony Albanese MP is the Labor Member for the Sydney electorate of Grayndler and also Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Shadow Minister for Tourism and Shadow Minister …2016-04-29 00:00:00
Aussie Rules & Heartfelt Moments, Journalist and commentator Chris Kenny is an associate editor at The Australian and presenter on Sky TV. He is also a contributor to Ross Fitzgerald’s edited Aussie Rules & Heartfelt …2016-04-29 00:00:00
Aussie Rules & Heartfelt Moments, A life-long Collingwood supporter, Professor Ross Fitzgerald AM is the author of 39 books, including his memoir My Name is Ross: An Alcoholic’s Journey and the co-authored political/sexual satire, Going …2016-04-29 00:00:00
Opportunities And Challenges In Australia’s Resources And Energy Sectors, The Hon Josh Frydenberg – Member for Kooyong and Minister for Resources and Energy – has proven he is the parliamentarian to watch. His rise through the ranks in both …2016-04-29 00:00:00
Birds on an Ethics Wire – Battles About Values in the Culture Wars, Dr Margaret Somerville is from the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law in Quebec, Canada. Her most recent book, Bird on an Ethics Wire, has been described as – …2016-04-29 00:00:00
The Art of Argument, , , On Wednesday 10 February 2016, The Sydney Institute organised a discussion on the art of argument between David Marr, author, Sydney journalist and former ABC TV Media Watch presenter and Gerard …2016-04-29 00:00:00
Aussie Rules & Heartfelt Moments, Gabrielle Trainer is a Sydney lawyer, business woman and a Commissioner with the Australian Football League. She is also a devoted supporter of North Melbourne. In 2015, she joined other …2016-04-29 00:00:00
Passage To Pusan – The Impact Of The Korean And Vietnam Wars On An Australian Family, In a 30-year career, Louise Evans has worked around Australia and the world as a reporter, foreign correspondent, editor and media executive. She’s been lucky to report on many great …2016-04-19 00:00:00
Australia’s Multiculturalism – Success or Not?, The idea of multiculturalism has always been connected to immigration in Australia, but is not necessarily that. Australians of both immigrant and indigenous heritage have embraced the idea of a …2016-04-11 00:00:00
Australian Crime And History, Early colonial Australia was rife with ambiguities – a small and tarnished population, adrift in the south Pacific where, so far from home and the administration of the Empire, petty …2016-04-07 00:00:00
Australian History And Crime – The Soldier’s Curse, Early colonial Australia was rife with ambiguities – a small and tarnished population, adrift in the south Pacific where, so far from home and the administration of the Empire, petty …2016-04-07 00:00:00
Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin: The Canberra Story, Marion Mahony Griffin was the American woman who changed Australian history and broke through barriers for women in architecture. Marion Mahony spent 15 years working for Chicago architect Frank Lloyd …2015-12-22 00:00:00
Lessons from Prime Ministers’ Chiefs of Staff, Professor Anne Tiernan from the 
School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University is also the co-author of The Gate Keepers compiled from interviews with the most prominent among the …2015-12-22 00:00:00
“Can Do” – The Campbell Newman Story, Gavin King is a journalist and former parliamentarian, as well as the author of Can Do, which charts the life of former Queensland premier Campbell Newman. The biography also merges …2015-12-22 00:00:00
Heading in the Right Direction: Much More Work to Do, In the political upheaval that saw The Hon Tony Abbott replaced as PM by The Hon Malcolm Turnbull, Australia’s Minister for Finance, Senator The Hon Mathias Cormann, was a survivor. …2015-12-22 00:00:00
Kidnapping for Ransom – The Graeme Thorne Tragedy, When eight-year-old Graeme Thorne was kidnapped on his way to school, in July 1960, Australia was gripped with fear and loathing. Just weeks earlier, Graeme’s parents had won a fortune …2015-12-22 00:00:00
Building Life After 70 – Frank Lowy’s Story, Jill Margo
AM is a columnist with The Australian Financial Review and a biographer and author, most recently of Frank Lowy – A Second Life which is a sequel to her …2015-12-22 00:00:00
Defending Australia’s National Interests in a Changing World, Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy is Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate and Shadow Minister for Defence. In the Rudd Labor Government, Stephen Conroy was the Minister for …2015-12-22 00:00:00
Tragedy and Scandal – Mrs Mort, Eugenia and the Courts, Suzanne Falkiner is a publisher and author, most recently, of Eugenia (XOUM 2014) and Mrs Mort’s Madness, a forensic study of the story of one of New South Wales’ most …2015-12-22 00:00:00
1975 – Myths Revisited,  Professor Anne Twomey is Director of the Constitutional Reform Unit at Sydney University and author of  numerous constitutional law studies especially The Chameleon Crown – The Queen and her Australian …2015-12-22 00:00:00
Canberra Knights: The Rise and Fall of the Public Service Mandarins, The word “mandarin”, as applying to those government bureaucrats closest to political leaders, first became commonly used in Australia after the election of Gough Whitlam’s government in 1972. Since then, …2015-12-22 00:00:00
Remembering The Dismissal, The Hon John Howard, prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007, is also an author – his most recent work The Menzies Era – and commentator on Australian politics. …2015-12-22 00:00:00
Fear and Greed – Australia and the Rise of Asia, Professor Michael Wesley is director of the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs and an author, most recently of Restless Continent: Wealth, Rivalry & Asia’s New Geopolitics which is …2015-12-22 00:00:00
Remembering The Dismissal, Paul Kelly is editor-at-large at The Australian, journalist, commentator, author of numerous books and co-author of The Dismissal – in The
 Queen’s Name. With Troy Bramston, Kelly has pulled together …2015-12-22 00:00:00
The Dismissal- Different Views, Dr Gerard Henderson is the executive director of The Sydney Institute, a columnist with The Weekend Australian and a political commentator. In 1987, Gerard Henderson interviewed Sir John Kerr for …2015-12-22 00:00:00
Offshore Processing: The Way Forward, THE HON RICHARD MARLES MP is the Member for Corio and the Shadow Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. In the Rudd Labor Government, Richard Marles was the Minister For Trade. In 2015 the Australian …2015-12-22 00:00:00
On the Edges of History, A graduate of the law schools of the universities of Melbourne and Virginia, Michael Sexton SC, spent some years as an academic lawyer before taking up practice at the NSW …2015-12-16 00:00:00
“Can Do” – The Campbell Newman Story, The Hon Campbell Newman is the former premier of Queensland and former Lord Mayor of Brisbane. In 2012, Newman led the newly formed Liberal National Party to a landslide victory …2015-12-10 00:00:00
Launch of Santamaria: A Most Unusual Man, The Hon Tony Abbott MP, Prime Minister of Australia, launched Gerard Henderson’s Santamaria: A Most Unusual Man (MUP) on Thursday 30 July 2015 at the Melbourne offices of Arnold Bloch …2015-10-21 00:00:00
Magna Carta and the Rule of Law in the Digital Age, Communication Minister The Hon Malcolm Turnbull has a special interest in the Magna Carta – seeing it as establishing many precedents for the rule of law so many centuries later. …2015-10-20 00:00:00
The “Joh for Canberra” Political Drama – what really happened?, From 1983 to 1992, Davey was the National Party’s federal director and has written widely on the party’s history. In his new book, Joh for PM, Paul Davey tells the …2015-10-20 00:00:00
Delivering the best service – Addressing family and domestic violence, Around one in three Australian women will experience some form of domestic or family violence, with the majority reporting the perpetrator was a current or previous partner.  Senator The Hon …2015-10-20 00:00:00
Narendra Modi At The Crossroads: Will The Indian PM Fulfil His Potential?, Sadanand Dhume is a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC. He writes about South Asian political economy, foreign policy, business, and society, with a focus on …2015-10-20 00:00:00
Restoring Australia’s Competitiveness, Australia is slipping down global competitiveness rankings as other countries undertake the difficult reforms Australia is struggling to enact. From workplace relations to tax, competition policy and skills training, there …2015-10-20 00:00:00
Divided Palestinians – The Consequences, Bassem Eid is a human rights activist, political analyst and commentator on the internal Palestinian politics who has been fighting for the human rights of Palestinians for decades. But Eid reports …2015-10-20 00:00:00
Launch of Santamaria – A Most Unusual Man, The Hon Tony Abbott MP, Prime Minister of Australia, launched Gerard Henderson’s Santamaria: A Most Unusual Man (MUP) on Thursday 30 July 2015 at the Melbourne offices of Arnold Bloch …2015-10-20 00:00:00
Launch of Santamaria: A Most Unusual Man, The Hon Tony Abbott MP, Prime Minister of Australia, launched Gerard Henderson’s Santamaria: A Most Unusual Man (MUP) on Thursday 30 July 2015 at the Melbourne offices of Arnold Bloch …2015-10-20 00:00:00
The Future for Christians in the Middle East, Samuel Tadros is a Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom. He is researching the rise of Islamist movements in the Middle East and its implications for religious …2015-10-20 00:00:00
Launch of Santamaria: A Most Unusual Man by Gerard Henderson, The Hon Tony Abbott MP, Prime Minister of Australia, launched Gerard Henderson’s Santamaria: A Most Unusual Man (MUP) on Thursday 30 July 2015 at the Melbourne offices of Arnold Bloch …2015-10-20 00:00:00
Remembering B.A. Santamaria (1915-1998): Ten Myths Demolished, Much has been written about BA (Bob) Santamaria – and much has been both exaggerated and misunderstood. Political commentator and executive director of The Sydney Institute Gerard Henderson – author …2015-10-20 00:00:00
Australia’s Top 12 Treasurers, The Hon Chris Bowen MP is the Member for McMahon and shadow Treasurer. He is one of the federal opposition’s most experienced shadow front benchers and effective parliamentary operators. After …2015-10-16 00:00:00
From India With Love, Indian born and Bathurst (NSW) raised from the age of eight months, Australian journalist Latika Bourke grew – happily settled and loved – in a large Australian family of three …2015-10-15 00:00:00
Australians and Foreign Investment, Australia’s economy has been built on the back of foreign capital – alone among nations advanced or emerging, we have been able to run deficits with the world throughout our …2015-10-15 00:00:00
My Misguided Youth: With Tony Abbott, Bob Carr And Many More, Australian columnist and commentator Greg Sheridan’s early life saw him become intimate friends and colleagues with a fascinating list of people who went on to be part of Australia’s political …2015-10-15 00:00:00
Reflections On Leadership, Love And Survival, The Hon Anna Bligh – Queensland Premier September 2007-March 2012 – was the first woman to be elected a premier of an Australian state. Having spent over 17 years in …2015-07-07 00:00:00
Address to 2015 Annual Dinner, Sydney Institute, The guest speaker for The Sydney institute’s Annual Dinner 2015, held on Monday 27 April, was The Hon Julie Bishop MP, Australia’s Foreign Minister.  The Hon Julie Bishop is also …2015-07-07 00:00:00
THE UNTOLD STORY OF AUSTRALIA AND THE SOVIET JEWS 1959-1989, For 50 years, until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the Soviet Union ran a campaign of repression, imprisonment, political trials and terror against its three million Jews.  In Australia, …2015-07-07 00:00:00
SMALL BUSINESS AFTER THE 2015 BUDGET, The Hon Bruce Billson is the Minister for Small Business and was also a minister in the Howard Government in 2007. As reported in the Herald Sun business section after …2015-07-07 00:00:00
CONSTITUTIONAL RECOGNITION FOR INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIA, At the 1967 referendum, Australians voted overwhelmingly to amend the constitution to include Aboriginal people in the census and allow the Commonwealth to create laws for them. Today, nearly 50 …2015-07-07 00:00:00
UNHOLY FURY: WHITLAM AND NIXON AT WAR, As the Nixon White House went increasingly on the defensive in early 1973, reeling from the lethal drip of the Watergate revelations, the first Austraian Labor prime minister in twenty-three …2015-07-07 00:00:00
INTRODUCTION TO THE HON JULIE BISHOP,   INTRODUCTION TO THE HON JULIE BISHOP MP MIKE BAIRD   I would like to acknowledge, first and foremost, Sydney Institute chairman Nick Johnson. Congratulations on your work. And, of …2015-07-07 00:00:00
THE LEGACY OF THE MAGNA CARTA, On 15 June 1215, English King John, in the meadow of Runnymede beside the Thames between Windsor and Staines, sealed the document now known as the Magna Carta. It is …2015-07-07 00:00:00
THE ORIGINS AND IMPACT OF MAGNA CARTA, On 15 June 1215, English King John, in the meadow of Runnymede beside the Thames between Windsor and Staines, sealed the document now known as the Magna Carta. It is …2015-07-07 00:00:00
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS DOWN UNDER – WHERE TO NEXT?, In 2015, Australia is experiencing lower growth and higher unemployment – especially for younger Australians. The slow growth across the Western world suggests this is a global problem but many …2015-07-07 00:00:00
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS DOWN UNDER – WHERE TO FROM HERE?, In 2015, Australia is experiencing lower growth and higher unemployment – especially for younger Australians. The slow growth across the Western world suggests this is a global problem but many …2015-07-07 00:00:00
THE ABBOTT GOVERNMENT – A MID-TERM REPORT, With reaction to the Abbott Government’s second budget a great deal more favourable that that which greeted the budget for 2014, The Sydney Institute brought together four political commentators to …2015-07-07 00:00:00
THE ABBOTT GOVERNMENT – A MID-TERM REPORT, With reaction to the Abbott Government’s second budget a great deal more favourable that that which greeted the budget for 2014, The Sydney Institute brought together four political commentators to …2015-07-07 00:00:00
THE ABBOTT GOVERNMENT – A MID-TERM REPORT, With reaction to the Abbott Government’s second budget a great deal more favourable that that which greeted the budget for 2014, The Sydney Institute brought together four political commentators to …2015-07-07 00:00:00
THE ABBOTT GOVERNMENT – A MID-TERM REPORT, With reaction to the Abbott Government’s second budget a great deal more favourable that that which greeted the budget for 2014, The Sydney Institute brought together four political commentators to …2015-07-07 00:00:00
THE BANDAR LOG – A LABOR STORY OF THE 1950s, Australian Canberra Press Gallery journalist Alan Reid was both a player and an observer of the great Labor split of the 1950s. From his experience, he not only came to …2015-07-07 00:00:00
MEMOIRS OF A SLOW LEARNER, Joining Helen Trinca and Ross Fitzgerald for a discussion of Canberra journalist Alan Reid’s novel on the Labor Split of the 1950s, journalist, former Quadrant editor and MP Peter Coleman …2015-07-07 00:00:00
POLITICAL FICTION AND NON-FICTION – ALAN REID’S THE BANDAR LOG, Australian Canberra Press Gallery journalist Alan Reid was both a player and an observer of the great Labor split of the 1950s. From his experience, he not only came to …2015-07-07 00:00:00
The Legacy Of The Magna Carta – 800 Hundred Years On, On 15 June 1215, English King John, in the meadow of Runnymede beside the Thames between Windsor and Staines, sealed the document now known as the Magna Carta. It is …2015-06-09 00:00:00
No Small Change, At the 1967 referendum, Australians voted overwhelmingly to amend the constitution to include Aboriginal people in the census and allow the Commonwealth to create laws for them. Today, nearly 50 …2015-05-27 00:00:00
The Rise And Fall Of Ancient Australia, The long Aboriginal occupation of Australia witnessed spectacular changes. The rising of the seas isolated the continent and preserved a nomadic way of life as agriculture revolutionised other parts of …2015-05-06 00:00:00
Vote Of Thanks To The Hon Julie Bishop MP, VOTE OF THANKS TO THE HON JULIE BISHOP MP ANDREW PENN On behalf of everybody this evening, it is my pleasure to offer a vote of thanks to the Foreign …2015-04-27 00:00:00
The War With The Ottoman Empire: A Century Perspective, Professor Jeffrey Grey, from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) at UNSW Canberra, is one of Australia’s finest military historians. His publications include A Military History of Australia, …2015-04-21 00:00:00
The Wife Drought, Annabel Crabb is a political journalist & commentator; author most recently of The Wife Drought. In her book she argues that working women are in an advanced, sustained, and chronically …2015-04-10 00:00:00
The New Generation Gap – Why The Age Of Entitlement Is Over For Governments, NSW Finance Minister The Hon Dominic Perrottet MP has been described as “one of the rising talents in the NSW Liberal Party”. When Mike Baird took over the role of …2015-04-10 00:00:00
Passion and History, , In 1154, Henry Plantagenet avenged his family honour by taking back the English throne. The kingdom he inherited was impoverished, and lawless. With his beautiful and indomitable Eleanor of Aquitaine, …2015-04-10 00:00:00
Telling The Secrets – Writing The Official History Of ASIO, Professor David Horner is Official Historian and Professor of Australian Defence History, School of International, Political & Strategic Studies. He has now completed and published the first volume in the …2015-04-10 00:00:00
The Australian Century – The One Just Gone And The One To Come, In his most recent publication, Australia – 1901-2001, former NSW MP turned author and historian Andrew Tink has brought together many of the stories that made Australia in the twentieth …2015-04-10 00:00:00
The Australian Century, The One To Come, Asher Judah is Deputy Executive Director, Property Council of Australia the author
The Australian Century (Connor Court). Asher Judah’s vision is of the future – the century to come for the …2015-04-10 00:00:00
How “Progressives” Got The Khmer Rouge So Wrong, Milton Osborne is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Lowy Institute and the author of ten books on the history and politics of Southeast Asia. His long association with Cambodia began …2015-04-10 00:00:00
Our Troubled Youth – Some Answers, David Cole is the co-founder, with his wife Mim Cole, of the Northern Territory’s Balunu Foundation, an organisation that helps Indigenous youth at risk to break the negative cycle that …2015-04-10 00:00:00
London Launch Of Menzies At War, On Wednesday 10 December 2014, at Australia House in London, Australia’s High Commissioner The Hon Alexander Downer AC gave the London launch of Anne Henderson’s Menzies at War (University of …2015-04-10 00:00:00
A Square Deal For Families And Young Australians, The Hon Scott Morrison MP is the Minister for Social Services in the Abbott Government. Prior to December 2014, Scott Morrison established his credentials as the Abbott Government’s Minister for …2015-04-09 00:00:00
The Nuclear Opportunity, South Australian Liberal Senator Sean Edwards believes South Australia could access tens of billions of dollars in the nuclear industry to store rods and rid the state of $4.4 billion …2015-04-07 00:00:00
The Outbreak Of The Great War In The Pacific: Germany Vs The Allies, In our commemorations of the battles of World War I, there is little recognition of the Allied fight with the Germans in the Pacific, where Germany had territorial possessions and …2015-03-31 00:00:00
Stimulating The Economic Growth Through Tax Reform, US economist and member of President Reagan’s Economic Policy Advisory Board, Arthur Laffer’s career has been marked by experience and success in business, in public policy, and as an academic …2015-03-17 00:00:00
Our Troubled Youth – Some Answers, Dr Lane Hinchcliffe is a medical doctor, composer, singer and pianist as well as the Managing Director and Program Co-ordinator of Project 15. Lane thinks of his work with adolescents …2015-03-10 00:00:00
Our Troubled Youth – Some Answers, Wendy McCarthy AO is the Chair of headspace – Australia’s National Youth Mental Health Foundation. Over a long career in public life, Wendy McCarthy Wendy McCarthy has held executive and …2015-03-10 00:00:00
Our Troubled Youth – Some Answers, Matt Noffs is the co-founder – with his wife Naomi – of Sydney’s Street University with centres at Liverpool and Mount Druit. The grandson of Ted Noffs who set up …2015-03-10 00:00:00
Repairing Social Housing – A Big Job That Can’t Wait, As NSW Minister for Family and Community Services, The Hon Gabrielle Upton, a lawyer, and former investment banker and company director, is using her outside experience to drive new approaches …2015-03-03 00:00:00
Launch of Linda: Unfinished Journey, , , On Monday 10 November 2014, Her Excellency Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO launched Noel Beddoe’s Linda Burney – A Life at The Sydney Institute. The book’s launch brought together an …2014-12-11 00:00:00
Reaching for the Summit – Australian Women in Power, Television presenter Geraldine Doogue recently turned her attention to an issue central to our times. How are women, represented at the top levels of power in Australia? In her book, …2014-12-11 00:00:00
Poetry And Science – And The Future, Renowned Australian poet Geoffrey Lehmann has been described by Geoff Page in the  Sydney Review of Books as “the most protean Australian poet of his generation, a user of masks, …2014-12-11 00:00:00
Beyond The Boom – How Has The Mining Boom Changed Australia?, Australian economist Dr John Edwards is a member of the board of the Reserve Bank of Australia and Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute.  In his Beyond The Boom, John …2014-12-11 00:00:00
Defending Australian History, Robert Murray has been a freelance journalist and independent historian since 1981. He is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books on aspects of Australian history – …2014-12-11 00:00:00
Australia’s Competitive Edge In The Industries Of The Future, On Tuesday 9 September 2014, The Hon Ian Macfarlane, Minister for Industry, addressed The Sydney Institute to outline the Abbott Government’s Industry policy. In the Minister’s opinion, Australia needs to …2014-12-11 00:00:00
The Australian Model For Inclusive Growth, As the G20 leaders prepared to meet in Brisbane, The Hon Bill Shorten addressed The Sydney Institute on 13 November 2014 Sydney. Taking as his theme his vision for future …2014-12-11 00:00:00
Childcare And Early Childhood Learning, The 2014 Productivity Commission’s draft of its investigation into childcare has recommended a single, means-tested childcare payment should replace the existing array of government subsidies to parents, nannies should be …2014-12-11 00:00:00
Robert Menzies: December 1949 – January 1966, The Hon John Howard OM AC, was Prime Minister from March 1996 to December 2007. Since retirement from politics, John Howard has proved to be a successful author with his …2014-12-11 00:00:00
Murder Most Foul? – The Disturbing Case Of Louisa Collins, Caroline Overington is the Associate editor of the Australian Women’s Weekly and the author of a number of books, of which the most recent is Last Woman Hanged which forensically …2014-12-11 00:00:00
John Monash – His Life And Times, Who was the most innovative general of World War One? For The Hon Tim Fischer, former National Party leader and Deputy Prime Minister, the answer has to be Australia’s “Maestro” …2014-11-27 00:00:00
Transforming NSW In The Context Of Federation Reform, NSW State Treasurer, The Hon Andrew Constance, delivered his first Budget in 2014 for the new government of Premier Mike Baird. His first year as State Treasurer was marked by …2014-11-19 00:00:00
Foreign Fighters In Syria And Iraq, Aaron Y. Zelin is the Richard Borow fellow at The Washington Institute. His research focuses on how jihadist groups are adjusting to the new political environment in the era of …2014-11-17 00:00:00
Trials Of Dishonour, Gabrielle Lord has written 15 books as well as a 12-volume thriller series for young adults. She started writing seriously at the age of 30 and resigned from her position …2014-11-10 00:00:00
Competition Policy – the next 20 years, Professor Ian Harper is Chair of the Independent Competition Policy Review. The Draft report handed down in September 2014 contained a few surprises, recommending restrictions on retail trading hours, taxis, …2014-10-13 00:00:00
Triumph and Demise: the story of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd government, Following his study of the Howard/Keating years of government in Australia, Australian journalist Paul Kelly has produced Triumph and Demise which probes the dynamics of the Rudd-Gillard partnership and dissects …2014-09-23 00:00:00
Energy Innovation: Proving The Catastrophists Wrong, Robert Bryce has been writing professionally about energy, innovation, and other topics for nearly three decades. He is the author most recently of Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation …2014-09-07 00:00:00
Learning Let Loose: Reforming Our Universities, Professor Warren Bebbington is Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Adelaide. Professor Bebbington’s publications include the Oxford Companion to Australian Music, and he was, for a decade, the music …2014-09-02 00:00:00
Launch of Anne Henderson’s Book Menzies at War – Introduction, On Friday 18 July 2014, The Sydney Institute held a Melbourne launch of Anne Henderson’s Menzies at War. The function was hosted by law firm Arnold Bloch Liebler and the …2014-09-02 00:00:00
Launch Of Anne Henderson’s Book Menzies at War, On Friday 18 July 2014, The Sydney Institute held a Melbourne launch of Anne Henderson’s Menzies at War. The function was hosted by law firm Arnold Bloch Liebler and the …2014-09-02 00:00:00
Melbourne Launch Of Menzies at War – Concluding Remarks, On Friday 18 July 2014, The Sydney Institute held a Melbourne launch of Anne Henderson’s Menzies at War. The function was hosted by law firm Arnold Bloch Liebler and the …2014-09-02 00:00:00
The Making Of The Australian Working Class, The luck of the Irish so often in history was chronic bad luck. That’s how it looked for 250 Irish convicts when theirship, the Hive, sank ignominiously off the NSW …2014-09-02 00:00:00
Looking Back On The United Nations Commission Of Inquiry On North Korea, In 2013, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) established the Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Human Rights on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) (North Korea). This mandated …2014-09-02 00:00:00
The Sociology Of Online Dating, Online dating came along just at the right time – a magical solution for a world where many people now spend long periods of their lives unwillingly unattached.Having started out …2014-09-02 00:00:00
Forrest, Indigenous Employment And Closing The Gap, In July 2014, mining magnate and Indigenous advocate Andrew Forrest handed the Abbott Government a radical new report on welfare distribution and income management among Indigenous Australians. The Forrest Report …2014-09-02 00:00:00
Making History – The Execution Of Ellen Thomson, Ellen Thomson was only woman ever to be executed in Queensland. Convicted of murder in 1887, the case still inspires considerable passion among those familiar with the facts, including her …2014-09-02 00:00:00
The Hanging Of Jean Lee, Jordie Albiston studied flute at the Victorian College of the Arts but went on to become a published poet – her first collection of poetry, Nervous Arcs, in 1995, was …2014-09-02 00:00:00
The Men Behind The Masks: The New Leadership Of China And The World They Live In, Professor Kerry Brown is Executive Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. He is also the author of the newly released The New Emperors – Power …2014-09-02 00:00:00
Australia Needs A Fiscal Reality Check, As Finance Minister in the Abbott Government, Senator The Hon Mathias Cormann has played a key role in the Budgetary reform process. With protracted negotiations in the wake of the …2014-09-02 00:00:00
Responding to the Caliphate – From Israel to Iraq, In July 2014, Australian Labor MP Michael Danby, the Member for Melbourne Ports, found himself in Israel in the midst of the latest missile attacks by the Gaza-based Jihadists of …2014-09-02 00:00:00
Launching Menzies at War, On Friday 18 July 2014, The Sydney Institute held a Melbourne launch of Anne Henderson’s Menzies at War. The function was hosted by law firm Arnold Bloch Liebler and the …2014-09-02 00:00:00
A Budget For Opportunity, In 2014, the new Abbott Government handed down a Budget that stirred protest at its unfairness even as the government proclaimed it to be a Budget of reform to more …2014-07-20 00:00:00
Diary Of A Foreign Minister, Six years after vacating his position as the longest-serving Premier of New South Wales, Bob Carr returned to politics in his dream job: as Foreign Minister of Australia and a …2014-07-20 00:00:00
Freedom Wars? Or The 21st Century Contest Of Ideas?, , , Tim Wilson was appointed as the new Human Rights Commissioner by the Abbott Government in 2013. formerly he was Director of Climate Change Policy and the Intellectual Property and Free …2014-07-20 00:00:00
Ten Ways To Tackle Drugs Today – The Story Of The Street University, Tony Abbott kept his promise in the 2014 Budget to fund ten Headspace centres across Australia, bringing their total to 100. But a review of the Headspace program, an initiative …2014-07-20 00:00:00
The Street University- What Is It And How Could It Contribute To Our Next Resource Boom?, Tony Abbott kept his promise in the 2014 Budget to fund ten Headspace centres across Australia, bringing their total to 100. But a review of the Headspace program, an initiative …2014-07-20 00:00:00
How Australia Goes To War: Some Lessons Of The Vietnam Era, Dr Peter Edwards is Australia’s Official Historian of Australia’s involvement in Southeast Asian conflicts 1948-75 (Malaya, Borneo and Vietnam) and most recently the author of The Essential History of Australia …2014-07-20 00:00:00
The Price Of A Wife – Test Cricketer Arthur Coningham V Catholic Priest Denis O’Haran, In December 1900, Fr Denis O’Haran, Dean of Sydney’s St Mary’s Cathedral, became entangled in a bitter divorce dispute. Australian cricketer, Arthur Coningham, accused the priest of having an affair …2014-07-20 00:00:00
One Stop Shop: The Abbott Government’s McClure Report & Its Consequences, In December 2013, the Hon Kevin Andrews, Minister for Social Services, announced that Patrick McClure would chair a Reference Group on Welfare Reform. Handed to the Minister in June 2014, …2014-07-20 00:00:00
Launch Of Anne Henderson’s Menzies at War , The Hon Barry O’Farrell is the Member for Kur–ing–gai and a former Liberal premier of New South Wales. On Tuesday 1 July 2014 Barry O’Farrell addressed The Sydney Institute to …2014-07-20 00:00:00
Modelling Global Temperatures – What’s Wrong. Bourke & Amberley As Case Studies, The paper which follows –Modelling Australian and Global Temperatures: What’s Wrong? Bourke and Amberley as Case Studies is the result of work by Jennifer Marohasy, John Abbot, Ken Stewart and …2014-07-20 00:00:00
The Sydney Institute Annual Dinner Address, The Sydney Institute’s Annual Dinner for 2014 was a gala event for close to 1000 guests in celebration of its twenty-five years anniversary. Sponsored by Telstra, the Dinner was held …2014-07-20 00:00:00
Australia’s Iconic Houses, From the 1950s to the 1970s, the work of Lloyd Wright, Gropius and Mies Van Der Rohe strongly influenced a generation of young Australian architects, who adopted modernist principles in …2014-07-20 00:00:00
Launching Menzies at War, On Tuesday 1 July 2014, The Hon Barry O’Farrell launched Anne Henderson’s Menzies at War (NewSouth 2014). In response to Barry O’Farrell’s comments on the book, Anne Henderson responded to …2014-07-20 00:00:00
The Geopolitics of America’s Pivot to the Pacific, Andrew Neil is a leading BBC politics host (the Tony Jones of Britain but with a conservative bent) and former editor of The Sunday Times who fell out spectacularly with Rupert …2014-05-14 00:00:00
Reopening the Whitlam File, The Hon Nicholas Hasluck AM, QC is a former Judge and well-known also as a novelist. His novel The Bellarmine Jug won The Age Book of the Year Award. His …2014-05-13 00:00:00
Industrial Relations: After the Thirty Years War, Since 2007 and the election of Labor’s Rudd/Gillard government, regulation of the workforce, wages and conditions have returned to a pre-1980s, pre-reform state. Senator The Honourable Eric Abetz is the …2014-05-13 00:00:00
1914 – A Century Later, The Great War is, for many Australians, the event that defined our nation. The larrikin diggers, trench warfare, and the landing at Gallipoli have become the stuff of the Anzac …2014-05-13 00:00:00
Fiscal Sustainability & Living Standards – The Decade Ahead, Dr Martin Parkinson PSM is the Secretary to the Treasury. With an ageing population poor productivity growth over the last decade and falling commodity prices an terms of trade over …2014-05-13 00:00:00
Kings Cross – Its Life and Times, Kings Cross is a no-holds barred place, where backpackers, prostitutes, strippers, chefs, mad men, poets, beggars, booksellers, doctors, gangsters, sailors, musicians, drug traffickers, eccentrics, judges and artists live side by …2014-05-13 00:00:00
The Empress Who Launched Modern China, Jung Chang became an overnight sensation in the 1990s with the publication of Wild Swans, the story of her family and their account of life  during China’s Cultural Revolution. She …2014-05-13 00:00:00
Friends and Neighbours: Australia and the World, The Hon Julie Bishop is Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia and Member for Curtin, Western Australia. On Thursday 6 March 2014, Julie Bishop …2014-05-13 00:00:00
Ukraine: Strategic Lynchpin or the Next Bosnia?, Walter Zaryckyj is Executive Director of the Center for US-Ukrainian Relations (CUSUR). The Center provides “informational platforms” or venues for senior-level representatives of the political, economic, security, diplomatic and cultural/academic establishments of …2014-05-13 00:00:00
Demographics, Productivity and Innovation,   Dr Phil Lowe is Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, a position he has held since February 2012. He is also Deputy Chairman of the Reserve Bank …2014-05-13 00:00:00
Labor’s Future, NSW Labor leader John Robertson has a mission to define Labor once more as the party that cares. Over time, the electorate has viewed Labor as the compassionate party. Robertson …2014-05-13 00:00:00
Britain And The World Economy In 2014, The Rt Honourable George Osborne is the UK Conservative MP for Tatton. He became UK Chancellor of the Exchequer in May 2010. Osborne entered Westminster as the youngest Conservative MP …2014-05-13 00:00:00
Implications Of The Upheaval In The Middle East, Ehud Ya’ari is Israel’s most authoritative and influential foreign affairs analyst and commentator, having reported on the politics of The Middle East, particularly Palestinian affairs, since the 1970s. He now …2014-05-13 00:00:00
Harry Seidler’s Sydney Vision, Helen O’Neill, a British/Australian writer, who has worked as a journalist for over 25 years, on The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian and Vogue Australia, The Independent, The Observer and …2014-05-13 00:00:00
Beyond The Horror – Gardens, Ghettos And Georgina, In December 1944, whilst heavy snows fell over Budapest and soldiers battled for the streets, Georgina, a young Jewish woman was nearly starving to death with her newborn child. … …2014-05-13 00:00:00
Responding To Crises Of Human Rights – From North Korea To Syria, Kenneth Roth is the executive director of Human Rights Watch, one of the world’s leading international human rights organisations, which operates in more than 90 countries. Prior to joining Human …2014-05-13 00:00:00
Beyond the Horror – Gardens, Ghettos and Georgina, Jacquelynne Willcox is Senior Vice President at Weber Shandwick and the author of a PhD thesis on “Gardens & Ghettos”. The study in Willcox’s thesis covers the incredible phenomena of …2014-05-13 00:00:00
The Abbott Government’s First 200 Days, After 200 days of Abbott Government, the polls were mixed, the new Senate oddly divided and the way ahead full of humps and challenges for Australia’s leaders. Labor faced a …2014-05-13 00:00:00
Enabling, Efficient & Effective Environmental Management, Australia’s environment came under new government management after September 2013. While repeal of the carbon tax has been a media focus with the new Liberal government of Tony Abbott, much …2014-05-13 00:00:00
The Abbott Government’s First 200 days, After 200 days of Abbott Government, the polls were mixed, the new Senate oddly divided and the way ahead full of humps and challenges for Australia’s leaders. Labor faced a …2014-05-13 00:00:00
The Abbott Government’s First 200 Days, After 200 days of Abbott Government, the polls were mixed, the new Senate oddly divided and the way ahead full of humps and challenges for Australia’s leaders. Labor faced a …2014-05-13 00:00:00
Labor after the 2013 Election, They were the smart “new” Australian Labor Party. In the 2007 election, led by Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, they made the country look fresh and optimistic again. But under …2014-01-27 00:00:00
Norma Haire-Studying Sex in the Early 10th Century, Dr Diana Wyndham is an Australian historian and co-author (Control with Stefania Siedlecky) of Populate and Perish: Australian Women’s Fight for Birth  and Norman Haire and The Study of Sex. …2014-01-27 00:00:00
Freedom of Speech: How can it be balanced with racial vilification, Professor Gillian Triggs is the President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, taking up her appointment in 2012. She was Dean of the Faculty of Law and Challis Professor of …2014-01-27 00:00:00
Trust in Politics: Who Cares?, The Hon Mike Baird is the New South Wales Treasurer in the Barry O’Farrell Government. And Minister for Industrial Affairs. He has been the Member for Manly since 2007. Before …2014-01-27 00:00:00
The Liberal Party (NSW Division): The Case for Reform, The Liberal Party of Australia’s NSW Division is under pressure to carry out long called for reforms over pre-selections and the influence of isolated sections of the Division in party …2014-01-27 00:00:00
Gough Whitlam’s Legacy – What Worked; What Didn’t, The Whitlam Governments – from December 1972 to November 1975 – led a reform revolution in many areas, from education and health to the environment and foreign policy. But alongside …2014-01-27 00:00:00
Labor After the 2013 Election, They were the smart “new” Australian Labor Party. In the 2007 election, led by Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, they made the country look fresh and optimistic again. But under …2014-01-27 00:00:00
Gough Whitlam’s Legacy – What worked; What Didn’t, Issue 24 | Wednesday 11 December The Whitlam Governments – from December 1972 to November 1975 – led a reform revolution in many areas, from education and health to the …2014-01-27 00:00:00
Gough Whitlam’s Legacy – What worked; What Didn’t, The Whitlam Governments – from December 1972 to November 1975 – led a reform revolution in many areas, from education and health to the environment and foreign policy. But alongside …2014-01-27 00:00:00
Gough Whitlam’s Legacy – What worked; What Didn’t, The Whitlam Governments – from December 1972 to November 1975 – led a reform revolution in many areas, from education and health to the environment and foreign policy. But alongside …2014-01-27 00:00:00
The Unravelling Middle East, Frederick Kagan is the Christopher DeMuth Chair and director at the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute and a former professor of military history at the US Military …2014-01-27 00:00:00
The Unravelling Middle East, Dr Kim Kagan is the founder and president of the Institute for The Study of War. She has taught military history at the US Military Academy at West Point, and at …2014-01-27 00:00:00
James Cook’s Three Remarkable Voyages of Discovery in the Pacific, Rob Mundle is a sailor by background. He is also, the internationally recognised author of Fatal Storm – now published in six languages having sold over 200,000 copies. More recently …2014-01-27 00:00:00
The Abbott Government’s Deregulation Agenda, Josh Frydenberg is the Member for Kooyong and Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister – with responsibility for de-regulation. Prior to entering politics, he qualified as a lawyer and was …2013-10-27 00:00:00
Remembering Sir Robert and Dame Pattie Menzies, Heather Henderson is the daughter of Sir Robert and Dame Pattie Menzies, the editor of Letters to My Daughter and, most recently, author of A Smile for My Parents. Heather …2013-10-22 00:00:00
Egypt Today – The Way to Peace, Ambassador Mohamed El-Orabi is Head of Congress Party, Egypt, and a former Egyptian Minister for Foreign Affairs. As Assistant Minister for Multi-Lateral Economic Affairs, from September 2008 until January 2011, …2013-10-09 00:00:00
Franklin D Roosevelt and America’s European Pivot, Dr Michael Fullilove is the executive director of the Lowy Institute in Sydney, and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. A Rhodes scholar and a …2013-10-09 00:00:00
Nick Greiner – A Political Life, Nick Greiner came into office as Premier of New South Wales in 1988, wanting to do more than change lifestyles, win re-election and remain popular, and he proceeded to implement …2013-10-08 00:00:00
Henry Plantagenet, Eleanor of Aquitane, Power, Seduction and Politics, Blanche D’Alpuget is an award winning author and essayist. In 1982, her perfectly timed biography of Bob Hawke, a year before he won power and became Australian prime minister, won …2013-10-07 00:00:00
Going to the People-Election Campaign 2013, The Australian federal election 2013 was a clear win for Tony Abbott and the Liberal/National party coalition. But some individual campaigns were especially outstanding. Michelle Rowland MP, formerly a senior …2013-10-01 00:00:00
Going to the People – Election Campaign 2013, The Australian federal election 2013 was a clear win for Tony Abbott and the Liberal/National party coalition. But some individual campaigns were specially outstanding. Sarah Henderson MP was born in …2013-10-01 00:00:00
Rome and the Holy See, The Hon Tim Fischer AC, former Australian Ambassador to the Holy See, has since published his account of his 1000 days in his ambassadorial job in the book Holy See, …2013-09-25 00:00:00
Women in the Australian Defence Force, In April 2011, the Australian Department of Defence asked Sex Discrimination Commissioner to conduct an independent Review into the Treatment of Women – both in the Australian Defence Force Academy, …2013-09-16 00:00:00
Choosing The Right Market Mechanisms For Addressing Environmental Problems, The Hon Greg Hunt was a minister in the Howard Government and became Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Urban Water in opposition after the 2007 election. In December …2013-09-13 00:00:00
Efficiency in Government, Paul Fletcher MP has been the member for Bradfield since 2009. Prior to entering parliament, he was the principal of a strategic consulting firm serving the communications sector and before …2013-09-13 00:00:00
The Real Marriage Question, Bettina Arndt in a sex therapist, journalist and clinical psychologist. Early in her career she edited Forum, an Australian adult sex education magazine. In the 1980s, Arndt shifted her focus …2013-09-13 00:00:00
Australian Politics and the Carrick Era, Dr Graeme Starr is a Visiting Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of the Australian Catholic University. He has written extensively on politics and public policy and taught at several …2013-09-13 00:00:00
The Greens And Labor – Allies Or Enemies?, In Why Labor Should Savour Its Greens, former investment banker and economist Brad Orgill reviews the Greens’ major economic, social, and environmental policies; and argues that progressive voters, and the …2013-09-13 00:00:00
The Politics Of Small Differences, Cassandra Wilkinson is a columnist with The Australian. She is also an author, strategy consultant and co-founder of FBi Radio and a regular commentator for Sky News Agenda, The Bolt Report and ABC …2013-09-13 00:00:00
Australia’s Game: Football as Art and Culture, Barry Oakley well known Australian author, lecturer and former literary editor of The Australian has published numerous books and plays including A Wild Ass of a Man, and Let’s Hear …2013-09-13 00:00:00
Forty Years in the Making – Why Leadership is the Least of Labor’s Troubles, Nick Cater is an Australian journalist and author and Chief Opinion Editor at The Australian. He has held editorial executive posts at The Weekend Australian, The Sunday Telegraph and The …2013-09-13 00:00:00
God in the Lodge: The Religious Beliefs of Australia’s Prime Ministers, and Why They Mattered, Roy Williams is the author of In God They Trust – The Religious Beliefs of Australia’s Prime Ministers 1901-2013. As an emerging writer, Williams’ book reviews appear in The Weekend Australian …2013-09-05 00:00:00
Party Time: Who Runs China and How?, Nearly a century after its underground beginnings in a Shanghai schoolroom, the Chinese Communist Party today exerts remarkable control. Business deals require party approval. University courses reflect party doctrine. Party …2013-09-03 00:00:00
Whatever Happened to Economic Reform? A Gen X Reflection, Dr John Kunkel is an economist and Deputy Chief Executive of the Minerals Council of Australia. He is also the author of America’s Trade Policy Towards Japan: Demanding Results published …2013-09-02 00:00:00
International Law, Climate Change and National Security, The Hon Mark Dreyfus QC became Australia’s Attorney in February 2013. He is the Member for Isaacs in Victoria. Mark Dreyfus entered parliament in 2007 and was appointed Cabinet Secretary and …2013-09-02 00:00:00
Literary Festivals: Classroom, Amusement Park or Sandpit?, Alice Grundy is Managing Editor of Giramondo, an independent university-based Australian literary publisher of award-winning poetry, fiction and non-fiction. She also is an editor of the literary journal Seizure. Alice …2013-09-02 00:00:00
Australia’s Immigration Future under a Coalition Government, A few days before the 2013 federal election, Shadow Minister for Productivity and Population and Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Scott Morrison MP addressed The Sydney Institute on Tuesday …2013-09-02 00:00:00
Australia in the next decade – A Gen X Point of View, Australians prepared to vote in a new government in September 2013 with Liberal Party and Labor Party leaders, Tony Abbott and Kevin Rudd, campaigning on a new start, with “change” …2013-09-01 00:00:00
Australia in the next decade – A Gen X Point of View, Australians prepared to vote in a new government in September 2013 with Liberal Party and Labor Party leaders, Tony Abbott and Kevin Rudd, campaigning on a new start, with “change” …2013-09-01 00:00:00
The Middle East in Upheaval: Interpreting and Predicting, Daniel Pipes is founder and head of the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum (MEF). He is also an American writer and political commentator, and widely regarded as one of the most …2013-08-27 00:00:00
Iran, Red Lines and Other Threats, Michael Singh is Managing Director of The Washington Institute and a former senior director for Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council. Singh has written extensively on Iran, the …2013-08-18 00:00:00
Australia’s Game, Award winning crime writer Peter Corris began his career as a lecturer and researcher, publishing his PhD thesis on Solomon Islands labour migration in 1973. In 1979 he became literary …2013-08-08 00:00:00
The Rise And Rise Of The Literary Festival, Michael Sexton SC is the New South Wales Solicitor-General, appointed in 1998. Apart from his accomplished career at the bar, Michael Sexton is also co-author of the leading Australian text …2013-07-24 00:00:00
Air Disaster Canberra, After 11 years as a NSW state Liberal MP, Andrew Tink left parliament in 2007 to pursue his passion for history and writing. His first book, William Charles Wentworth, Australia’s …2013-06-11 00:00:00
Australia In A More Competitive World, Senator Arthur Sinodinos AO is an expert on national politics, public policy issues and government and business leadership and was Chief of Staff to Prime Minister John Howard from 1997-2006. …2013-06-11 00:00:00
Italian Politics After The 2013 Election, Giulia Massotti is a project manager with the Institute of European Democrats, a research institute established in 2007 and based in Brussels. On Monday 22 April 2013, at The Sydney Institute, she …2013-06-11 00:00:00
Scientists And Policy Makers; Why Are They Incompatible?, Science and scientific thinking play an ever-increasing role in our everyday lives.  Governments need to make decisions, which should often be based on scientific evidence and arguments. In general, however, positive …2013-06-11 00:00:00
Business And The Cyber Wars, John M Green is an author, former merchant banker and non-executive director at Worley Parsons and QBE Insurance. His most recent novel, The Trusted, an eco-cyber-thriller, tackles the underworld surrounding …2013-06-11 00:00:00
Italian Politics After The 2013 Election, Luca Bader, CEO of the Institute of European Democrats in Brussels and an Honorary Research Fellow at La Trobe University’s Centre for Dialogue. On Monday 22 April 2013, at The Sydney Institute, …2013-06-11 00:00:00
The Gonski Report – Yes Or No, Dr Kevin Donnelly was a secondary school teacher in Victoria for 18 years and is now one of Australia’s leading education authors and commentators and the Director of the Melbourne …2013-06-11 00:00:00
Surrounded On All Sides – Five Lessons In Leadership From History, The 2013 Sydney Institute Dinner lecture was given by Dr Amanda Foreman, award-winning historian and international best-selling author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1998 Whitbread Prize for Biography) and A World on Fire: …2013-06-11 00:00:00
Searching For Madeleine St John: The Craft Of Biography, Helen Trinca is an author and Managing Editor of The Australian. Her early books were co-written – Waterfront: The Battle that Changed Australia and Better than Sex: How a Whole …2013-06-11 00:00:00
Sir Thomas Daly And Australia’s Military Commitments – From Tobruk To Vietnam, Jeffrey Grey, Professor History Program UNSW Canberra, is both teacher and author of Australian military history. His books have included A Military History of Australia (1990), Australian Brass: The Career …2013-06-11 00:00:00
Politics And The Australian Coal Industry: What’s Next?, Dr Nikki Williams is the Chief Executive Officer of Australian Coal Association. With the environmental debate entering a new phase where activists are no longer seeking to improve the environmental …2013-06-11 00:00:00
Introduction – Dr Amanda Foreman, The Hon Barry O’Farrell, Premier of New South Wales, gave the introduction to Dr Amanda Foreman at The Sydney Institute’s Annual Dinner 2013 on Tuesday 30 April. The premier highlighted …2013-06-11 00:00:00
The Freedom Wars, Senator The Hon George Brandis is Shadow Attorney-General and Shadow Minister for the Arts Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate in the Abbott Shadow Ministry. In the Howard …2013-06-11 00:00:00
In Defence Of Silliness, Prurience And Sedition – Being A Gossip Columnist, Rear Window columnist Joe Aston has taken the Sydney finance community by storm with his irreverent gossip write-ups in The Australian Financial Review. From Tasmania, Joe Aston turned up in …2013-06-11 00:00:00
US Policy Priorities and the ‘Rebalance’ to the Asia-Pacific, Bonnie Glaser is a senior adviser for Asia in the Washington DC Freeman Chair in China Studies, a senior associate with CSIS Pacific Forum and a consultant for the US …2013-06-11 00:00:00
Geelong Grammar School and its Place in Australian History, Former Head of History at Geelong Grammar School, and curator and friend to a host of old boys and girls, Michael Collins Persse has helped to educate some 10,000 youngsters …2013-06-11 00:00:00
The Gonski Report – Yes Or No?, Jane Caro in an author, novelist, journalist, columnist, lecturer and media commentator, and most recently the co-author of What makes a Good School? On Tuesday 16 April 2013, Jane Caro …2013-06-11 00:00:00
Australian Women and Online Communication, Mia Freedman built her career around creating communities of women in magazines  – as Editor of Cosmo and then Editor-in-Chief of Cosmo, Cleo & Dolly – and is now the …2013-03-26 00:00:00
Infrastructure – Driving Productivity, As Australia’s Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, The Hon Anthony Albanese holds the key to transport decisions that will affect industry, city growth, regional communication and an easier life for …2013-03-26 00:00:00
Australia’s Foreign Relations – A Conversation with Bob Carr, , , Senator The Hon Bob Carr is Australia’s Foreign Minister – and a hard man to catch since taking up this position in March 2012 after joining the Senate. A former …2013-03-26 00:00:00
Why The Eureka Rebellion Still Matters, Peter FitzSimons, author and journalist with The Sydney Morning Herald  and Sun-Herald has written Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution to investigate the hearts and minds of those on the battlefield, and those behind …2013-03-26 00:00:00
Integrity In Politics, Senator John Madigan took his seat in the Senate on 1 July 2011. As a Democratic Labor Party senator, he reminded many that old style politics is not dead. In …2013-03-26 00:00:00
Australian Politics In 2013, Budget deficit, national debt, spending, employment, unemployment and under employment, promises, promises, promises and the Gonski Report on education, the National Broadband Network, the Mining tax and Carbon tax, a …2013-03-26 00:00:00
Australian Politics In 2013, Budget deficit, national debt, spending, employment, unemployment and under employment, promises, promises, promises and the Gonski Report on education, the National Broadband Network, the Mining tax and Carbon tax, a …2013-03-26 00:00:00
US – Middle East Relations: New Administration; New Relationship?, Dr Steven Rosen is head of the Washington project of the Middle East Forum in Washington DC. For many years he was policy director of the American Israel Public Affairs …2013-03-26 00:00:00
From “The Bride Stripped Bare” To “Notes On Life” – With Nikki Gemmell, Wake up on Saturday and reach for The Australian Weekend Magazine – then flip to Nikki Gemmell’s column. Nikki is famous for her lyrical honesty and for fearlessly saying those …2013-03-26 00:00:00
John Kerr and the Dismissal: A Response to Jenny Hocking, Australian historians – Professor Jenny Hocking especially – have largely taken Gough Whitlam’s side in his dismissal by Governor General Sir John Kerr in November 1975. Sir David Smith played …2013-03-26 00:00:00
Indigenous Australians and Violence – Some Answers, Australian indigenous leader Bess Nungarrayi Price has said, “We need to support those who tell the truth.” She has said this in respect to policy and programs relating to Aboriginal …2013-03-26 00:00:00
Indigenous Australians and Violence – Some Answers, Australian indigenous leader Bess Nungarrayi Price has said, “We need to support those who tell the truth.” She has said this in respect to policy and programs relating to Aboriginal …2013-03-26 00:00:00
Remembering The Katyn Massacre, The discovery of the mass grave of over 4000 Polish soldiers in the Katyn forest in the Soviet Union by the Nazis in 1943 began the recording of a Polish …2013-03-26 00:00:00
Indigenous Affairs In An Abbott Government, The date for the 2013 federal election was set more than six months out – it would be be held on Saturday 14 September 2013. This announcement was made with …2013-03-15 00:00:00
Why the Australian Labor Party is the Party of Small Business, The Hon Brendan O’Connor is the Minister for Small Business, and Minister for Housing and Homelessness in the Gillard Government. He was the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Industrial Relations from …2012-12-23 00:00:00
Melbourne Before Archbishop Daniel Mannix,  Patrick Morgan is an Australian academic who has written a number of books and articles on the connections between literature, history and politics, and has edited two volumes of the …2012-12-23 00:00:00
Other People’s Wars, Dr Craig Stockings is a senior lecturer in History and Strategic Studies at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. Focusing on Australian military history …2012-12-23 00:00:00
Retail And Its Competitive Future, Margy Osmond is Chief Executive of the Australian National Retailers Association (ANRA), which was established in 2006 as a lobby and research organisation to be the voice of Australia’s largest …2012-12-23 00:00:00
A Political Life – And Kevin Rudd, Maxine McKew was an award-winning broadcast journalist, who the seat of Bennelong at the 2007 federal election, defeating John Howard and becoming only the second candidate to have beaten an …2012-12-23 00:00:00
America Today : The Good News, Leonard M. Harlan is Co-Founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Castle Harlan, Inc. and a member of the Executive Committee of Castle Harlan Australian Mezzanine Partners (CHAMP), the …2012-12-23 00:00:00
War Crimes Trials: From Nuremberg To Guantanamo Bay, On Wednesday 12 December 2012, William Shawcross CVO delivered the Jim and Janette Bain Occasional Lecture for 2012. William Shawcross is an internationally acclaimed writer, author and commentator who was …2012-12-23 00:00:00
The Treason Of The Intellectuals, David Pryce-Jones is an internationally acclaimed writer, historian and commentator. In his early career, David Pryce-Jones was the literary editor of the Financial Times (1959-1961) and the Spectator (1961-1963), and …2012-12-23 00:00:00
India at crossroads: Will its politics allow it to fulfill its promise?, Sadanand Dhume is an Indian writer and journalist based in Washington, D.C. who writes on Asian affairs and also a South Asia columnist for the Wall Street Journal. He has …2012-12-23 00:00:00
The Transport Future for NSW, The Hon Gladys Berejiklian is the New South Wales Minister for Transport in the O’Farrell Government. She is also the first Armenian descendant to be elected to the NSW Parliament. …2012-12-23 00:00:00
Farewell, Dear People: Biographies of Gifted Australians who Died in the Great War, Dr Ross McMullin is a senior History fellow at the  University of Melbourne and the author (most recently) of Farewell, Dear People: Biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation. He is also the author …2012-11-30 00:00:00
Time To Bring Our Troops Safely Home From Afghanistan, Senator Christine Milne is a Senator for Tasmania and Leader of the Australian Greens Party. Senator Milne has a career spanning 30 years, dealing with environmental and community concerns. Elected …2012-11-30 00:00:00
The Colonisation of Antarctica, David Day is an Australian historian and author who has written extensively on Australian history, particularly focusing on World War Two. Among his works of note are the biographies of …2012-11-30 00:00:00
Four Corners’ Stories that Changed Australia, Liz Jackson is an Australian Journalist, most known for her work on Four Corners and Media Watch. Prior to her work in journalism, Jackson worked as a lawyer in both Australian and …2012-11-30 00:00:00
The Battle of Mont St Quentin-Peronne – Lest we forget, The story of the battle of Mont St Quentin-Peronne in 1918 involved the capture of the “unattackable” Mont and the “invincible” fortress town of Péronne, two of the great feats …2012-11-30 00:00:00
Facing History: Denial And The Turkish National Security Concept, Sociologist and historian Taner Akçam was born in the province of Ardahan, Turkey. As the editor-in-chief of a student political journal, he was arrested in 1976 and sentenced to 10 …2012-11-30 00:00:00
Non-Muslim Minorities and The Arab Spring, Lydia Khalil was born in Cairo and is a native Arabic speaker. She is an internationally recognised expert in international politics and security and currently a visiting fellow at the …2012-11-30 00:00:00
The China Story : A Matter of Facts, Geremie R Barmé is an historian, cultural critic, filmmaker, translator and web-journal editor who works on Chinese cultural and intellectual history from the early modern period (1600s) to the present. …2012-11-30 00:00:00
Gazing Again At Gough, Professor Jenny Hocking is foundation Head of the School of Journalism, Australian and Indigenous Studies, and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. She is a well-known …2012-11-30 00:00:00
Australia in the Asian Century, Dr Craig Emerson was first elected to the House of Representatives as the Member for Rankin in Queensland in 1998. He served as an Opposition shadow minister in the Howard …2012-11-30 00:00:00
Building a New Age of Certainty, The Hon Joe Hockey is the Member for North Sydney and shadow treasurer. He was first elected to the federal parliament in 1996 and held a number of ministerial portfolios …2012-11-21 00:00:00
Writing About the Holocaust – and its Australian Connections, Belinda Castles has a Masters in Novel Writing from the University of Manchester and, when not writing, works as an editor in Sydney. Her first novel was Falling Woman, and …2012-11-12 00:00:00
Observational Film Making And Mrs Carey’s Concert, In 2008, documentary filmmakers Bob Connolly (Rats in the Ranks) and Sophie Raymond approached Sydney’s MLC School to document in film the work of Karen Carey and her Music Department …2012-08-07 00:00:00
Mrs Carey’s Concert And Music Education, In 2008, documentary filmmakers Bob Connolly (Rats in the Ranks) and Sophie Raymond approached Sydney’s MLC School to document in film the work of Karen Carey and her Music Department …2012-08-07 00:00:00
Making Mrs Carey’s Concert, In 2008, documentary filmmakers Bob Connolly (Rats in the Ranks) and Sophie Raymond approached Sydney’s MLC School to document in film the work of Karen Carey and her Music Department …2012-08-07 00:00:00
Sydney as a Global City, Andrew Low is the CEO of Redbridge Grant Samuel and has just published the Global Sydney report which lays out a strategy for Sydney to restore its place as the …2012-08-01 00:00:00
Sydney as a Global City, Jacquelynne Willcox is a Senior Vice President and Head of Public Affairs at Weber Shandwick – a leading public relations agency in Sydney. Jacquelynne is busy selling Sydney and can …2012-08-01 00:00:00
Climate Change: What We Know and What We Don’t, Professor Murry Salby holds the Climate Chair at Macquarie University and has had a lengthy career as a world-recognised researcher and academic in the field of Atmospheric Physics. He has …2012-07-24 00:00:00
Bishop John Moyes Versus Robert Menzies On Banning Communism And The Vietnam War, Paul Terracini teaches in the Department of Studies in religion at the University of Sydney. His PhD studies involved him in research on the role played by Bishop John Moyes …2012-07-23 00:00:00
Syria: The Assad Regime And The Rebels, Dr Jonathan Spyer is a Senior Fellow at the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Centre in Herzliya, Israel and the author of Transforming Fire – The Rise of the …2012-07-17 00:00:00
Achieving Teacher Quality – The Coalition’s Approach, The Hon Christopher Pyne is the Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training andManager of Opposition Business in the House. After decades of focus on material resources,computers, libraries, class sizes, …2012-07-16 00:00:00
Noel Beddoe’s The Yalda Crossing, Linda Burney is the Member for Canterbury, a member of the Wiradjuri nation and the first Aboriginal Australian elected to the NSW Parliament. After the 2011 NSW election, Linda Burney …2012-07-12 00:00:00
Launch Of The Yalda Crossing, Noel Beddoe worked as a high school principal for 20 years and has been involved in Aboriginal education for most of his adult life, becoming the inaugural chairperson of the …2012-07-12 00:00:00
Hitler’s Germany Down Under, David Bird is an independent historian based in Melbourne. He was born in Tasmania and studied Classics and History at the University of Tasmania, later taking his doctorate in Australian …2012-07-09 00:00:00
Opportunities For Women – Is The Battle Fought And Won? Launch Of Women In NSW 2012, On 3 July 2012, The Hon Pru Goward, NSW Minister for Women, addressed The Sydney Institute to launch the Women in NSW 2012 Report. The launch fulfilled an election commitment …2012-07-03 00:00:00
Living With The Carbon Tax, As Australia introduced a tax on carbon, from 1 July 2012, Australians – from commentators totaxpayers – were left to consider what lay ahead. To offer some informed thoughts on …2012-07-02 00:00:00
Living With The Carbon Tax, As Australia introduced a tax on carbon, from 1 July 2012, Australians – from commentators to taxpayers – were left to consider what lay ahead. To offer some informed thoughts …2012-07-02 00:00:00
Tibet in the Asian Century, Dr Lobsang Sangay is the political leader of the Tibetan people since the Dalai Lama’s full transfer of his political power to an elected leadership in exile in 2011. Born …2012-06-28 00:00:00
Losing – And Finding – Italy Down Under, Dr Rebecca Huntley is a researcher with a background in publishing, academia and politics. She holds degrees in law and film studies and a PhD in Gender Studies and is …2012-06-26 00:00:00
Where To From Here For Labor?, Cassandra Wilkinson is a founder of Australia’s youth arts and culture FM radio station FBi and a social commentator who writes and speaks about the virtues of freedom from rock …2012-06-19 00:00:00
The Struggle For The Soul Of The Labor Movement, The Hon Rodney Cavalier AO is a former NSW Minister in the Wran and Unsworth Governments. He is also the author of a powerful critique of contemporary Labor – Power …2012-06-19 00:00:00
The Struggle For The Soul Of The Labour Movement, Jim Macken is one of the Australian labour movement’s icons and dissidents. A former judge of the Industrial Commission of New South Wales, Jim Macken was among those union leaders …2012-06-16 00:00:00
How The North Was Won, In March 2011, Campbell Newman – then Lord Mayor of Brisbane – announced hewould seek pre-selection for the Queensland state seat of Ashgrove, held by Laborand needing more than a …2012-06-12 00:00:00
Predictability In Australia’s Foreign Policy, The Hon Julie Bishop was a minister in the Howard Government and held the portfolios of Ageing and Education, Science and Training and was the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister …2012-06-05 00:00:00
The Finkelstein Media Report And Media Regulation, Gail Hambly holds degrees in Law, Science and Economics and is Group General Counsel and Company Secretary of Fairfax Media Ltd, responsible for legal services across Fairfax Media Ltd. She …2012-05-28 00:00:00
The Finkelstein Media Report and Media Regulation, Matthew Ricketson is a journalist and academic who has worked on staff at The Australian and Time Australia magazine, among other publications. He has held the position as Media and Communications Editor of The …2012-05-28 00:00:00
Larger Than Life: Roddy Meagher QC, Damien Freeman studied law, philosophy and classical Hebrew and Aramaic at Sydney University and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is the author of Art’s Emotions: Ethics, Expression and Aesthetic Experience, is …2012-05-23 00:00:00
A Psychiatrist On The Couch – Views From The Other Side – Gordon Parker, Gordon Parker AO is one of Australia’s foremost clinical psychiatrists. He has been described as “charming, witty and erudite” but also sometimes “intimidating and intolerant”. But he is also an …2012-05-22 00:00:00
Dame Nellie Melba – Ann Blainey, Ann Blainey is an author of five biographies. Her most recent biography is I Am Melba which records anew and with particular detail the life story of Australia’s renowned opera …2012-05-16 00:00:00
Politics in 2012, Troy Bramston is a columnist with The Australian, a former speech writer for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and the author of Looking for the Light on the Hill. On Tuesday …2012-05-08 00:00:00
Australian Dreaming – Sun, Camels And Grumpy Kelpie, Issue 16 | May 2012 Heidi Douglas is a veterinarian and ex-RAAF pilot who set herself the challenge of travelling around the brim of the Australian continent on foot. Catch …2012-05-07 00:00:00
The Other Life of the King James Bible, The Sydney Institute’s Annual Dinner Lecture 2012, on 20 March, was given by Lord Bragg of Wigton, otherwise known as Melvyn Bragg, award-winning documentary producer and presenter, historian and author. …2012-05-04 00:00:00
Developing A Uniquely Australian School Education System, The Hon Peter Garrett AM MP is Australia’s Minister for School Education & Minister for Early Childhood and Youth. In the wake of the Gonski Report “Review of Funding for Schooling”, Peter …2012-05-04 00:00:00
The Future Of Work Is Having A Good Job, Australia’s Minister for Employment and Workplace relations, Financial Services and Superannuation is the Hon Bill Shorten, Member for Maribyrnong. Industrial relations and the Howard Government’s Workchoices legislation was a key …2012-05-04 00:00:00
Sustainable Finances – Why Bother?, Mike Baird is the NSW Treasurer and has held this position since the O’Farrell Government was elected in March 2011. He was first was elected to the New South Wales …2012-05-04 00:00:00
The Ottoman Empire and the Contemporary Middle East, Ehud R. Toledano is Professor of Ottoman and Middle Eastern History and the Director of the Graduate School of Historical Studies at Tel-Aviv University. He holds a Princeton PhD (1979), …2012-05-04 00:00:00
Bringing the House Down, Barry Cohen AM served as the Member for Robertson from 1969-1990. During his time in parliament, he was Minister for Home Affairs (1983-84) and Minister for Arts, Heritage and the …2012-05-03 00:00:00
Lord Sydney and the Creation of Sydney, Andrew Tink was the Member for Eastwood in Sydney from 1988-99 and the Member for Epping from 1999-2007. Since leaving politics, Andrew Tink has published a biography of Australian pioneer …2012-05-03 00:00:00
How Numbers Came To Rule The World, Jane Gleeson-White has worked as an editor, writer and reviewer in Sydney and London since completing her degrees in English and Australian literature, and economics, at the University of Sydney …2012-05-03 00:00:00
Australian Politics, Niki Savva joined the Canberra press bureau in 1972 and today is a columnist for The Australian and commentator on ABC TV’s The Drum. During the Howard Government, in 1998, …2012-05-03 00:00:00
The Army After Afghanistan, Lieutenant General David Morrison is Australia’s Chief of Army. He served as Colonel Operations, Headquarters International Force for East Timor (INTERFET) from October 1999 and on his return to Australia, …2012-05-03 00:00:00
Hazel’s Journey, Sue Pieters-Hawke is the daughter of Bob and Hazel Hawke. She has just published a second book on her mother, Hazel – My Mother’s Story, which is a full biography …2012-05-03 00:00:00
Thinking of Margaret Thatcher, Lord Alistair McAlpine, businessman, collector and adventurer became a life peer in 1984. After Margaret Thatcher became leader of the UK Conservatives and opposition leader in 1975, she enlisted McAlpine …2012-05-02 00:00:00
Save The Murray: Restore The Estuary, Jennifer Marohasy is an Australian biologist who works to worked to provide an important counterpoint in public debate and discussion. She is a regular speaker on environmental issues particularly as they …2012-05-02 00:00:00
Why Give a Dead War Criminal a Counterfeit Get-Out-of-Gaol Card?, “Breaker” Morant was an Englishman who spent his early adulthood in New South Wales. In 1900, he joined the Boer War as a lieutenant in a British unit, the Bushveldt …2012-05-02 00:00:00
Inequality Matters – What is to be done?, Issue 16 | May 2012 Labor MP Dr Andrew Leigh is the Member for Fraser. With a Ph D from Harvard, Andrew was a professor of economics at the Australian National …2012-05-01 00:00:00
Inequality Matters – What is to done?, Issue 16 | May 2012 The Hon Tony Smith is the federal Member for Casey and was first elected to parliament in 2001. Tony is the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for …2012-05-01 00:00:00
Captain Thunderbolt – History or Myth?, The history of Australian bushranger Frederick Ward who became known as Captain Thunderbolt is surrounded by folk lore and myth. But in her Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady, writer and …2012-04-27 00:00:00
Captain Thunderbolt – History or Myth? – Part Two, David Roberts, a senior lecturer at the University of New England the editor of the Journal of Australian Colonial History. His interest in Captain Thunderbolt developed out of the campaign …2012-04-27 00:00:00
Breaker Morant – The Case For Review And A Pardon, “Breaker” Morant was an Englishman who spent his early adulthood in New South Wales. In 1900, he joined the Boer War as a lieutenant in a British unit, the Bushveldt …2012-04-27 00:00:00
Christianity’s Story – Geoffrey Blainey, Professor Geoffrey Blainey is one of Australia’s foremost historians and certainly its most prolific. In recent times, Professor Blainey has published A Short History of the World to which he …2012-04-24 00:00:00
Launching “Joseph Lyons – The People’s Prime Minister” – John Howard, On Tuesday 18 October, the Hon John Howard launched Anne Henderson’s Joseph Lyons – The People’s Prime Minister (New South Press). John Howard was introduced by Stuart Clark, a managing …2012-01-31 00:00:00
Pluralists, Partisans and Public Discourse – Maurice Newman, In a speech to the staff of the Australian Broadcasting Commission in March 2010, ABC Chairman Maurice Newman said, “At the ABC, I believe we must re-energise the spirit of …2012-01-31 00:00:00
Prime Minister Joseph Lyons’ Place in History – Tony Smith, On Monday 24 October 2011, The Hon Tony Smith MP, who is the Member for Casey and Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Tax Reform and Deputy Chairman, Coalition Policy Development Committee, …2012-01-31 00:00:00
A Year in Retrospect, a Decade in Prospect, Dr Martin Parkinson PSM, is Secretary to the Treasury. As Secretary, he is a member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Chair of the Advisory Board of the …2012-01-31 00:00:00
Security and Intelligence in Australia – David Irvine, On Tuesday 24 January 2012, David Irvine, Director-General of Security (ASIO), addressed a capacity crowd at The Sydney Institute to outline comprehensively the work of Australia’s Intelligence forces, their purpose …2012-01-31 00:00:00
Politics and the Media – My Kingdom for an Audience – Annabel Crabb, One of Australia’s most popular political commentators, Annabel Crabb is the ABC’s chief online political writer. She has been a journalist for more than 12 years, covering national politics for …2012-01-12 00:00:00
The ABC and the Arts – A Matter of Consequence – Jonathan Mills, Jonathan Mills is the director of the Edinburgh International Festival and the Artistic Adviser of the Melbourne Recital Centre. Born in Sydney, Mills studied architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute …2012-01-12 00:00:00
Are Australians better at poetry than sport? – Geoffrey Lehmann, Robert Gray has been a writer-in-residence at Meiji University in Tokyo and at several Australian universities and has won the Adelaide Arts Festival and the New South Wales and Victorian …2012-01-12 00:00:00
Sharia in the West – Is This a Reality? – Raheel Raza, Raheel Raza is an award winning writer, professional speaker, diversity consultant, documentary filmmaker, playwright and author of Their jihad… not my jihad; A Muslim Woman Speaks Out. Born in Pakistan, …2012-01-12 00:00:00
Building your Own Luck: A stronger economy for a stronger Australia – Tony Abbott, In 2011, Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s Labor government struggled against the ongoing attacks from opposition leader Tony Abbott. In this, and in spite of leading comfortably in the polls, Tony …2012-01-12 00:00:00
Foreign Affairs – A Life in the Service – Philip Flood, , Philip Flood AO is a former head of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Office of NationalAssessments and the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau. During Philip Flood’s …2012-01-12 00:00:00
From Managing Disadvantage to Breaking it – Pru Goward, The Hon Pru Goward is the New South Wales Minister for Family and Community Services and Minister for Women. Her portfolio is one of the most complex and delicate to …2012-01-12 00:00:00
The Political Phenomenon Sweeping Across The Arab World – Idriss Jazairy, Ambassador Idriss Jazairy is Permanent Representative of Algeria to the UN in Geneva and Chair of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Executive Committee. Prior to his appointment as Permanent …2011-10-11 00:00:00
The Challenge Of Palestinian State-Building – Khaled Abu Toameh, Khaled Abu Toameh, an Arab Muslim who lives in Israel, is a veteran award-winning journalist who has been covering Palestinian affairs for nearly three decades. He studied at Hebrew University …2011-10-11 00:00:00
It’s Time to Get Real – Barnaby Joyce, Senator Barnaby Joyce is one of a family of eight from a cattle and sheep business in southern New England. He is an accountant who entered the Senate after the …2011-10-11 00:00:00
God In the 21st Century – Jeffrey Kamins, Rabbi Jeffrey Kamins from the Emanuel Synagogue in Sydney addressed The Sydney Institute on Tuesday 23 August 2011 as part of a discussion on God in the twenty-first century. He …2011-10-11 00:00:00
John Henry Newman: A Cardinal for our Times – Edmund Campion, Edmund Campion is a Sydney priest, writer, editor, literary judge and academic. Among his published works are Rockchoppers: Growing up Catholic in Australia, Australian Catholics and A Place in the …2011-10-11 00:00:00
God in the 21st Century – Shakira Hussein, Dr Shakira Hussein, from the National Centre for Excellence in Islamic Studies at the University of Melbourne, addressed The Sydney Institute on Tuesday 23 August 2011 as part of a …2011-10-11 00:00:00
Letters From My Father, Robert Menzies – Book Launch – Heather Henderson, In 2011, Sir Robert Menzies’ daughter Heather Henderson published her father’s letters to her, written over the years she had been living overseas with her diplomat husband Peter Henderson. These …2011-10-11 00:00:00
London Schools and The London Riots – Too Much Nanny State? – Katharine Birbalsingh, In 2011, The Sydney Institute instituted the Occasional Jim and Janette Bain Lecture to honour the contribution made by Jim and Janette Bain to the establishment of The Sydney Institute. …2011-10-07 00:00:00
God in the 21st Century – Robyn Williams, Robyn Williams addressed The Sydney Institute on Tuesday 23 August 2011 as part of a discussion on God in the twenty-first century. Robyn Williams, who is the ABC Radio National …2011-10-06 00:00:00
The US and Australia: Partners in Sustaining Prosperity in the Asia-Pacific – Thomas Nides, Thomas Nides is Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources, serving as Chief Operating Officer of the Department and as alter ego to Secretary Clinton. Appointed by President Obama, …2011-10-06 00:00:00
The Case for Coal Seam Gas – Glenda McLoughlin, The issue of mining coal seam gas became a much debated  topic in 2011, resulting in the NSW government announcing a tough new regime for the coal seam gas mining, …2011-10-06 00:00:00
Living with Depression – Andrew Robb, The Hon Andrew Robb was introduced by the Hon Barry O’Farrell at The Sydney Institute on Tuesday 8 August 2011, click here to view. LIVING WITH DEPRESSION ANDREW ROBB   …2011-10-06 00:00:00
The Case for Social Inclusion – Tanya Plibersek, The Hon Tanya Plibersek is the Minister for Human Services and the Minister for Social Inclusion.  She has been the Member for Sydney since 1998 and is one of the …2011-10-06 00:00:00
God in the 21st Century – Angela Shanahan, Angela Shanahan, a columnist with The Australian, addressed The Sydney Institute on Tuesday 23 August 2011 as part of a discussion on God in the twenty-first century. She was joined …2011-10-05 00:00:00
The Carbon Tax and Regional Australia – Richard Marles, On Wednesday the 8 June 2011, The Hon. Richard Marles, Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs, joined Sophie Mirabella, Opposition Shadow Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, to discuss the …2011-08-25 00:00:00
Governing For The Long Term National Interest – Anthony Albanese, The Hon Anthony Albanese is Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Anthony Albanese addressed The Sydney Institute on Tuesday 28 June 2011. Looking back on three years of Labor government from …2011-08-25 00:00:00
Tobacco Labelling – A View – Ainslie Van Onselen, In 2011, Australia prepared to legislate plain packaging for all cigarette sales in a bid to curb the damaging effects of smoking. A global first. So is this an example …2011-08-25 00:00:00
Reflections on Age Discrimination: The price we pay for growing older – Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination Commissioner and Commissioner responsible for Age Discrimination Australian Human Rights Commission Elizabeth Broderick addressed The Sydney Institute on Tuesday 21 June 2011. The speech marked the end of …2011-08-25 00:00:00
Is the war on Terrorism still necessary? – Michael Rubin, Michael Rubin is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Centre for Civil-Military Relations. He is also a senior editor …2011-08-25 00:00:00
Westmin-Ovation: Valuing people in reform of NSW public services – Barry O’Farrell, The Hon Barry O’Farrell, Premier of New South Wales, addressed The Sydney Institute on Monday 4 July 2011. His speech marked the end of the first 100 days of the …2011-08-25 00:00:00
Mother and Son – Life with Austen Tayshus – Margaret Gutman, Margaret Gutman is a former executive director of the Jewish Board of Deputies in Sydney. She is also the mother of Australian comedian, Sandy Gutman, aka Austen Tayshus. Margaret Gutman’s …2011-08-25 00:00:00
Compulsory Superannuation – A View – Ross Cameron, In a presentation to The Sydney Institute on Wednesday 6 July 2011, on compulsory superannuation and its future benefit to Australians, Ross Cameron, former Liberal Party Member for Parramatta and …2011-08-25 00:00:00
Environmental Issues and the Murray Darling Basin – Tony Burke, The Hon Tony Burke is the Minister for sustainability, environment, water, population and communities. The drought years in Australia from 2000, have focussed government attention to a host of environmental …2011-08-25 00:00:00
The Social Media of Natural Disasters: The Queensland experience – Anna Bligh, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh made history, on 21 March 2009, when she became the first popularly elected female Premier in Australia. Prior to the election, she served as Queensland Premier …2011-08-25 00:00:00
Building the foundations for change: Indigenous affairs in the Gillard Government – Jenny Macklin, Following a report, in 2011, on Indigenous Affairs that highlighted continuing problems in Indigenous living conditions, Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin responded by pointing out that such problems had developed …2011-08-25 00:00:00
Climate Change and Carbon Dioxide Storage – Herbert E. Huppert, Professor Herbert Huppert is an internationally recognised geophysicist. In 2007, he was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London and, in May 2011, gave the Bakerian Prize …2011-08-25 00:00:00
My Life As A Political Blogger – Iain Dale, , Iain Dale, who founded London’s Politicos bookshop, is one of Britain’s leading political commentators, appearing regularly on TV and radio. Iain Dale is best known for his political blog, Iain …2011-08-25 00:00:00
The Carbon Tax and Regional Australia – Sophie Mirabella, On Wednesday the 8 June 2011, Sophie Mirabella MP, Opposition Shadow Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, joined the Hon. Richard Marles, Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs, to discuss …2011-08-21 00:00:00
Communism and the Labour Movement During the Cold War – Mark Aarons, On Tuesday 24 May 2011, writer and former political adviser Mark Aarons joined former NSW  premier Bob Carr to address The Sydney Institute for a discussion on the left’s involvement …2011-08-19 00:00:00
David Cameron’s Educational Revolution – Sajid Javid, Sajid Javid is the Conservative MP for Bromsgrove and was elected to the House of Commons at the 2010 general election. The son of bus driver, Sajid Javid was born …2011-08-19 00:00:00
Green Light for Senate Chaos – Eric Abetz, Senator Eric Abetz is Leader of the Opposition in the Senate and Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Elected to the Senate at the 1998 federal election, Senator Abetz …2011-08-19 00:00:00
Communism and the Labor Movement – Bob Carr, On Tuesday 24 May 2011, former NSW premier Bob Carr joined writer and former political adviser Mark Aarons to address The Sydney Institute for a discussion on the left’s involvement …2011-08-18 00:00:00
Tobacco Labelling: A View, In 2011, Australia prepared to legislate plain packaging for all cigarette sales in a bid to curb the damaging effects of smoking. A global first. So is this an example …2011-08-18 00:00:00
Compulsory Superannuation and the Liberals – Dallas McInerney, Dallas McInerney has worked in financial service regulation at ASIC and is currently Group General Manager, Government Affairs at the National Australia Bank. In a presentation to The Sydney Institute on Wednesday …2011-08-14 00:00:00
Kapyong: The Forgotten Battle of The Forgotten War (Korea) – John Lewis, John Lewis, a documentary film maker, runs Arcimedia which produces Australian historical documentaries. His most recent is Kapyong, the story of the remarkable feats of Australian diggers in a crucial …2011-05-31 00:00:00
In Defence of Opportunity – Joe Hockey, Shadow Treasurer The Hon Joe Hockey MP addressed The Sydney Institute on Wednesday 9 March 2011.  His address took up the themes of how government can best promote Australia’s long …2011-05-27 00:00:00
Politics & Language: Political Abuse and the Web – Bernard Keane, On Tuesday 15 March 2011, The Sydney Institute held a discussion on the use of language in political debate developing with a multi-media world, the free use of the web …2011-05-27 00:00:00
Politics & Language: Political Abuse and the Web – Shelley Gare, Shelley Gare is the founding editor of The Australian Review of Books, columnist and author of The Triumph of Airheads. On Tuesday 15 March 2011, The Sydney Institute held a …2011-05-27 00:00:00
Politics & Language: Political Abuse and the Web – Tom Switzer, Tom Switzer is editor of Spectator Australia and a former opinion editor of The Australian . On Tuesday 15 March 2011, The Sydney Institute held a discussion on the use …2011-05-27 00:00:00
John Curtin and “Greater Britain” – James Curran, Dr James Curran is a senior lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Sydney. His most recent book is Curtin’s Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Dr Curran …2011-05-27 00:00:00
Facing the Dragon: Meeting Life’s Challenges Head On – Elizabeth Lancaster, Elizabeth Lancaster began her working life as an occupational therapist in Australia until she unexpectedly found herself in a writing course in New York, whilst living there with her husband …2011-05-27 00:00:00
Facing the Dragon: Meeting Life’s Challenges Head On – Joanne Jones, Joanne Jones was just 16 when she was hired as a copywriter by Leo Burnett Advertising agency in Sydney. Her subsequent 35 years in advertising included a move to Hong …2011-05-27 00:00:00
Liberalism and the Simplification of Government – Greg Hunt, The Hon Greg Hunt MP is Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment & Heritage. He spoke at The Sydney Institute on Wednesday 6 April, 20112011-05-27 00:00:00
What makes us tick: The 10 desires that drive us – Hugh Mackay, Social researcher Hugh Mackay has written thirteen books, mostly on issue relating to the way Australians behave. His most recent, What makes us Tick – The Ten Desires that Drive …2011-05-27 00:00:00
Social Entrepreneurs and the Big Society – Alastair Wilson, Alastair Wilson is the Chief Executive Officer of the School for Social Entrepreneurs, based in the United Kingdom. He was also the Development Director of the SSE Network of Associate …2011-05-27 00:00:00
Kapyong: The Forgotten Battle of the Forgotten War – Cameron Forbes, Cameron Forbes was born in Rockhampton, Queensland. He has been foreign editor of The Age, European and Asia correspondent for The Age and Washington correspondent for The Australian. He has …2011-05-27 00:00:00
Australians Behaving Badly – Ita Buttrose, Ita Buttrose AO, OBE, the founding editor of Cleo magazine, began her long career in journalism at the age of 15. In 1975, Ita Buttrose moved on the edit The …2011-05-27 00:00:00
My School: Parents, Pupils and the Public Interest – Helen Proctor, Dr Helen Proctor is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney. She has written extensively on education and schooling and is co-editor …2011-05-27 00:00:00
My School: Parents, Pupils and the Public Interest – Maralyn Parker, Maralyn Parker is a the education columnist for The Daily Telegraph and has won awards for her journalism. She has published several books on education, the most recent is My …2011-05-27 00:00:00
Remembering Stanley Melbourne Bruce – Ann Moyal, On Tuesday 17 May 2011, Dr Ann Moyal was to have joined Dr David Lee to discuss the legacy of Viscount Stanley Melbourne Bruce in the Australian story. At late …2011-05-27 00:00:00
Remembering Stanley Melbourne Bruce – David Lee, Dr David Lee is the director of the Historical Publications and Information Section of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. On Wednesday 18 May 2011, David Lee addressed The …2011-05-27 00:00:00
Australia’s Colonial Experience in New Guina between the Wars – Michael Waterhouse, Michael Waterhouse is a historian and author of the book Not a Poor Man’s Field. The New Guinea Goldfields to 1942 – An Australian Colonial History. Foreword by Ross Garnaut. …2011-05-26 00:00:00
Multiculturalism in the Australian Context, The Hon Chris Bowen MP was sworn in as the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship on 14 September 2010. He was born and grew up in the western suburbs of …2011-03-17 00:00:00
White Savages? Sketches of Colonial Manners, Associate Professor and author Penny Russell is fascinated by snobs and social climbers, scandals large and small, and the mysterious ways people lived, loved and learned in times past. Firmly …2011-03-17 00:00:00
In Search of Sydney, Delia Falconer is a senior lecturer at the University of Technology in Sydney and an acclaimed writer – most recently of Sydney (New South Press). Her two novels are the …2011-03-17 00:00:00
Georgia in 2010: Afghanistan, Georgian foreign policy and trade and investment, As the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, a contributor to the NATO-led military campaign in war-torn Afghanistan, Alexander Nalbandov made a visit to Sydney in 2010. Georgia has …2011-03-16 00:00:00
“Poor old pinko conservative, half-arsed political puritan, cyrpto-fascist”: Barry Humpries and the politics of satire, Barry Humphries has twice written his life in autobiographies – with different takes on the same life. But neither account gives the whole story. Dr Anne Pender took years researching, …2011-03-16 00:00:00
Afghanistan Today, Malalai Joya was elected to the 249-seat National Assembly, or Wolesi Jirga, in September 2005, as a representative of Farah Province. Shei won the second highest number of votes in …2011-03-16 00:00:00
Minority Government in Australia and Canada, Professor Anne Twomey, from Sydney University Law School, has also worked for the High Court of Australia as a Senior Research Officer, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Research Service as a researcher …2011-03-16 00:00:00
Minority government – Canada and Australia, Jeffrey Simpson, national affairs columnist for Canada’s Globe and Mail, is the recipient of all three leading Canadian literary prizes. Author of six books, Jeffrey Simpson speaks at dozens of …2011-03-16 00:00:00
The World Needs a Different China, Wu’er Kaixi made his name as one of the prominent student leaders in the Tiananmen Square student protests of 1989. He fled to France, then studied at Harvard University and …2011-03-16 00:00:00
The World needs a Different China, Chin Jin is a Chinese-born Australian who has lived in NSW since 1988. He has been active in the overseas Chinese democratic movement since early 1989. Chin Jin is an …2011-03-16 00:00:00
Wikileaks – A Discussion, Gerard Henderson, Executive Director of The Sydney Institute, is also a weekly columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald. In his weekly Sydney Institute blog Media Watch Dog, Gerard Henderson has …2011-03-16 00:00:00
Wikileaks and The Mainstream, Sydney Morning Herald columnist Richard Ackland has spent more than 30 years in journalism and publishing. He has also hosted Late Night Live on ABC Radio National and later the …2011-03-16 00:00:00
Wikileaks – A discussion, Professor Wendy Bacon is the Director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism and a well known Australian investigative journalist and non-practising lawyer. Her current research interests include the reporting …2011-03-15 00:00:00
Lessons of Liberty from Republicans Past, Dr Tony Moore is a Senior Lecturer of Communications and Media Studies at Monash University and the Director of the National Centre for Australian Studies. He is also Director of …2011-03-14 00:00:00
Election 2010 and Beyond, In the aftermath of the 2010 election, George Megalogenis began to analyse what had happened to politics in Australia. Was it a new phase, with minority government and the rise …2011-03-14 00:00:00
From Migrant to Citizen: Testing Language, Testing Culture, Christina Slade is Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at City University London. She was Dean of Humanities at Macquarie University from 2003-8 and has taught at a number of Universities …2011-03-14 00:00:00
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