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Thu, 02 Sep 2010
Wayne Swan: Labor's Economic Plan and the Stability and Prosperity Australians Deserve
Wed, 01 Sep 2010
Fred Hilmer: What's wrong with microeconomic reform today?
Wed, 25 Aug 2010
Paul Kelly, Claire Harvey and Peter Hartcher- The Federal Election Campaign: What Happened?
Wed, 18 Aug 2010
Paul Cleary- Timor 1942- Australia's Special Commando Campaign
Wed, 11 Aug 2010
David Marr and Nicholas Stuart - The Rudd Prime Ministership
Fri, 06 Aug 2010
Elizabeth Broderick and David Gonski - Board Representation: Balancing the Gender Mix
Tue, 03 Aug 2010
Kate Jennings and Shelley Gare - Trouble: the art of sticking your head above the parapet
Tue, 27 Jul 2010
Tony Abbott - Social Policy under the Coalition
Tue, 20 Jul 2010
Lenore Taylor and David Uren - The Inside Story of the Rudd Government’s First Term
Fri, 16 Jul 2010
Paul Davey and Fiona Nash - 90 Not Out: The Nationals 1920-2010
Thu, 15 Jul 2010
Ehud Ya'ari - Armistice Now: An Interim Agreement for Israel and Palestine
Wed, 14 Jul 2010
Bill Shorten - The future of disability in Australia: winning the battle for equal treatment
Wed, 07 Jul 2010
Valerie Lawson - Remembering Pamela Travers: Creator of Mary Poppins
Wed, 30 Jun 2010
Claire McCarthy - The Waiting City - Making Australian Movies in India
Tue, 29 Jun 2010
The Hon. Nicola Roxon - From Little Things Big Things Grow
Wed, 23 Jun 2010
Jennifer Hewett and George Megalogenis - Mining: Super Profits Tax and the Australian Economy
Wed, 16 Jun 2010
Judith Keene - Treason on the Radio: The British John Amery, Australian Charles Cousens and American “Tokyo Rose” Iva Toguri
Wed, 09 Jun 2010
Stephen Holt - Alan Reid and the 36 Faceless Men
Thu, 03 Jun 2010
The Hon. Andrew Robb - Dealing with Debt and Rebuilding Resilience
Wed, 26 May 2010
Desmond O'Grady - My Life in Italy: Tales about Shirley Hazard, Peter Robb, Morris West, Doris Lessing and others
Wed, 19 May 2010
James Curran and Stuart Ward - Nationhood Before Gough Whitlam: Australia in the 1960s
Wed, 12 May 2010
Neville Meaney - Did Australia Fight Other Peoples’ Wars? Australia and the World Crisis: 1914-1923
Wed, 05 May 2010
Margaret Kelly and Susan Ryan - Australia Without A Charter of Rights – Two Views
Wed, 28 Apr 2010
Jana Wendt- Nice Work
Wed, 28 Apr 2010
Patricia Anderson - Robert Hughes – The Australian Years
Tue, 20 Apr 2010
Janda Gooding - Revisiting Gallipoli
Fri, 16 Apr 2010
The Hon. Julia Gillard - A Future Fair for All: School Funding in Australia
Tue, 13 Apr 2010
The Hon. Stephen Conroy - Reform Unleashes Transformation
Thu, 08 Apr 2010
The Hon. Craig Emerson - Why Productivity Growth Needs Competition
Thu, 25 Mar 2010
The Hon. Chris Evans - Irregular Migration - The Global Challenge
Wed, 17 Mar 2010
Obama and America - Annual Dinner Lecture 2010 by Simon Schama
Wed, 10 Mar 2010
Lucy Howard-Taylor - Modern Girls and Anorexia
Thu, 04 Mar 2010
Lavina Lee - Why Australia should sell Uranium to India
Mon, 01 Mar 2010
The Hon. Martin Ferguson - A New Age of Energy
Tue, 23 Feb 2010
Ric Battellino - Mining Booms and the Australian Economy
Tue, 16 Feb 2010
Miranda Devine - Older and Wiser – Remembering Frank Devine
Mon, 15 Feb 2010
Jonty Olliff-Cooper - Progressive Conservatism in Contemporary Britain
Wed, 03 Feb 2010
Gerard Henderson and Ross Fitzgerald - Launch of Ross Fitzgerald’s memoirs My Name is Ross: An Alcoholic’s Journey
Thu, 28 Jan 2010
Don Watson, Sue Butler and David Malouf: Bad Language
Fri, 22 Jan 2010
Embesat Khan: Pakistan Today
Thu, 14 Jan 2010
The Hon. Tony Abbott - Practical Environmentalism
Wed, 02 Dec 2009
Bridget Griffen-Foley - ‘Dial-in democracy’? Forty years of talkback, from Andrea to Kyle
Wed, 02 Dec 2009
Ziggy Switkowski - The Nuclear Echo post-Copenhagen
Tue, 17 Nov 2009
Kirsten McKenzie and Andrew Tink: Early Australia: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty
Wed, 11 Nov 2009
Rt. Hon. David Blunkett: Unfettered Free Market Bad, Public Interest Good? Why hasn't the global meltdown led to a resurgence of left of centre politics across the world?
Mon, 09 Nov 2009
The Hon Joe Hockey MP: In Defence of God
Fri, 06 Nov 2009
Ida Lichter and Daniel Pipes: Changes in Radical Islam
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
The Hon. Greg Combet AM MP: From Collins to Force 2030 – The Challenge of the Future Submarine
Thu, 29 Oct 2009
Ann McGrath: Writing Readable History
Wed, 14 Oct 2009
Sophie York - Angels of Aceh - Australian Aid Abroad
Wed, 07 Oct 2009
Susan Varga - The Angel of Death – and The Elderly
Wed, 30 Sep 2009
Ken Gillespie AO DSC CSM - Now, Not Then - 21st Century - Australian Army
Tue, 29 Sep 2009
Adam Rotfeld - Poland and Russia
Mon, 28 Sep 2009
Workplace Laws – What Every Business Needs to Know
Wed, 23 Sep 2009
Andy Pitman - Communicating Climate Science
Thu, 17 Sep 2009
Gabrielle Carey - In Trouble Again: The Perils of Memoir
Tue, 15 Sep 2009
Elizabeth Broderick-Accumulating poverty? Women's experiences of inequality over the lifecycle
Wed, 09 Sep 2009
Paul Kelly: The March of Patriots
Fri, 04 Sep 2009
The Hon. Colin Barnett - Over the Nullarbor and Over the Horizon
Wed, 02 Sep 2009
H.E. Ms Quentin Bryce AC - 2009 Annual Dinner/Lecture
Wed, 26 Aug 2009
Margy Osmond - What’s Happening to Retail
Tue, 18 Aug 2009
Paul Howes - Energy Policy for Australia
Thu, 13 Aug 2009
Tony Abbott - What’s Right? - Liberalism and Conservatism Inside the Liberal Party
Thu, 06 Aug 2009
The Hon. Simon Crean - The Triumph of Trade Liberalisation over Protectionism
Wed, 29 Jul 2009
Tanveer Ahmed - The Islamic State in Crisis – A Look at Pakistan and Iran
Wed, 22 Jul 2009
Anne Summers : Searching for the lost mother - the painting and the person
Mon, 20 Jul 2009
Paul Twomey - The Internet: Australia’s Role and Opportunities
Tue, 14 Jul 2009
Annabel Crabb - Creatures Of The Liberal Party
Wed, 08 Jul 2009
Frank Brennan & Helen Irving - A Progress Report on the National Human Rights Consultation
Thu, 02 Jul 2009
Joseph Healy - Australian Banks: Sinners or Saints?
Tue, 30 Jun 2009
Ray Evans and Ian Dunlop - Climate Change: Two Views
Tue, 23 Jun 2009
Ian Plimer: The Theology of Climate Change
Tue, 23 Jun 2009
John Hatzistergos- The Wrong Answer to the Wrong Question: The Charter of Rights and Abuses of Overcentralised Power
Tue, 16 Jun 2009
David Gruen - Reflections on the Global Financial Crisis
Wed, 10 Jun 2009
Henry Ergas & Paul Fletcher - Telecommunications: The Way Forward
Wed, 03 Jun 2009
The Hon. Jenny Macklin MP - Addressing the Challenges of an Ageing Australia
Tue, 02 Jun 2009
Kate Legge - Modern Marriage, Melbourne & The Middle Class
Tue, 26 May 2009
Helen Pringle - John Stuart Mill For Today
Thu, 21 May 2009
The Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon - Aspects of the Defence White Paper
Thu, 21 May 2009
Mathew Levitt - Financing International Terrorism
Tue, 19 May 2009
Tarek Heggy - Arab Culture and Modernity
Wed, 13 May 2009
Fiona Allon - Renovation Nation: our obsession with home
Wed, 13 May 2009
Kristin Williamson - Living with David Williamson
Wed, 29 Apr 2009
Bettina Arndt - The Politics of Desire
Tue, 21 Apr 2009
Nguyen Van Canh- Vietnam and China: The Spratly and Paracel Islands Dispute
Thu, 16 Apr 2009
Peter Hartcher - Greenspan, Bush and Obama: Who’s responsible for the Global Financial Crisis
Wed, 08 Apr 2009
The Hon. Maxine Mckew - Getting it Right in the Early Years
Tue, 31 Mar 2009
The Hon. Helen Coonan -Magic Pudding Economics - The Economy Under Labor
Tue, 24 Mar 2009
Anna Clark & Mark Lopez - Teaching History – Two Views
Tue, 24 Mar 2009
The Hon. Wayne Swan - A Future of Promise
Thu, 19 Mar 2009
Tanya Plibersek - Public housing – public good or good for nothing?
Tue, 17 Mar 2009
Greg Growden - Remembering Jack Fingleton
Thu, 12 Mar 2009
Barry O'Farrell - Restoring Good Governance
Tue, 10 Mar 2009
Judith Pugh - Clifton Pugh: Art and Politics in the 1970
Wed, 04 Mar 2009
Quang Luu & Dai Le - Journeys from Vietnam
Tue, 03 Mar 2009
The Hon. Julie Bishop - Freedom and Prosperity : The Liberal Party’s Legacy
Tue, 24 Feb 2009
Joe Trippi - : E-Campaigning in the Democratic Party
Thu, 19 Feb 2009
The Hon. Julia Gillard - A Resilient Australia
Wed, 11 Feb 2009
Warren Mundine & Marcia Langton - Indigenous Affairs - A New Conversation
Tue, 03 Feb 2009
Margot O'Neill -Beyond the Wire – Refugee Advocacy in Australia
Wed, 28 Jan 2009
Mark Johnson, Dr. John Edwards, Dr. Timo Henckel - The World Financial Crisis: How Did It Happen?
Wed, 21 Jan 2009
H.E. Maxime Verhagen - The Netherlands, Australia and the World
Wed, 17 Dec 2008
John Rielly - The Foreign Policy of the New American Administration
Wed, 03 Dec 2008
Gabrielle Gwyther - Once Were Westies
Tue, 25 Nov 2008
Anne Henderson & David Bird - Joseph Lyons: Two Views
Fri, 21 Nov 2008
Don Watson - American Journeys: After the Election
Tue, 18 Nov 2008
The Hon. Chris Bowen MP - Reclaiming Liberalism for the Left: Social Justice in the 21st Century
Wed, 12 Nov 2008
Tim Fischer and Jeffrey Grey - John Monash - Two Views
Mon, 10 Nov 2008
Michael Abrahams-Sprod - Broken Glass, Shattered Lives: The Relevance of the Reichskristallnacht Today
Thu, 06 Nov 2008
The Hon. Tanya Plibersek - Women and Men: A New Conversation about Equality
Thu, 06 Nov 2008
David Day - Andrew Fisher - Australian Prime Minister
Wed, 29 Oct 2008
Carol Baxter- Skullduggery in Early Sydney: Australia’s Biggest Bank Robbery
Tue, 28 Oct 2008
Christine Milne: The Greens, Balance of Power, and Australia's Emissions Trading Plans
Thu, 23 Oct 2008
Gerard Henderson: Why Menzies Matters - 2008 Sir Robert Menzies Lecture
Wed, 22 Oct 2008
Jenny Macklin: Australian Social Policy- Back in Business
Tue, 21 Oct 2008
Sandra Hall - Ezra Norton - His Life and Times
Thu, 16 Oct 2008
Anne Henderson - Robert Menzies, Joe Lyons, Enid Lyons - The Menzies Research Centre
Tue, 14 Oct 2008
David Kirk: The Public Good, Public Companies, and the Future of Print Media and Quality Journalism
Tue, 07 Oct 2008
Ann Genovese - History and the Judicial System
Wed, 01 Oct 2008
The Hon. Peter Costello & Peter Coleman - The Costello Memoirs
Thu, 11 Sep 2008
The Hon. Anthony Albanese MP - National Leadership in Infrastructure and Transport Reform
Tue, 09 Sep 2008
Lisa Pryor - Over-achieving and Self-loathing in Corporate Australia
Thu, 04 Sep 2008
Bob Carr & Paul O'Sullivan - Spy Fiction : Then and Now
Mon, 01 Sep 2008
Shaun Brown - Multicultural Society, Monocultural Media: SBS - more special than ever
Wed, 27 Aug 2008
Greig Gailey - The Economy, Carbon Emissions, & Business - An "ETS" That Works
Thu, 21 Aug 2008
Stephen Smith: A New Era of Engagement with the World
Thu, 07 Aug 2008
Malcolm Prentis - Scottish Settlement and Australia
Wed, 30 Jul 2008
The Hon. Robert McClelland - National legal reform to meet the economic challenges of the 21st century
Tue, 29 Jul 2008
Wajiha Ahmed - Pakistan - The Current Political Scene
Thu, 24 Jul 2008
Nikki Williams: Coal and Climate Change- How We Can Have Our Cake and Eat It Too
Tue, 22 Jul 2008
Hilary Charlesworth - Democratic objections to bills of rights
Wed, 09 Jul 2008
Paul Davey - A Political Dynasty: The Anthonys in Australia
Thu, 03 Jul 2008
Anne Henderson Book Launch in Tasmania - Enid Lyons: Leading Lady to a nation
Wed, 02 Jul 2008
Patricia McNerney - United States Government Nonproliferation Priorities and Asia
Tue, 24 Jun 2008
Matt Bai: The Web and the next US President – political movements in the Internet Age
Fri, 20 Jun 2008
Malcolm Turnbull - Launch of Anne Henderson's Enid Lyons - Leading Lady to a Nation
Thu, 19 Jun 2008
Kate Jennings- Notes from New York - In an Election Year
Fri, 13 Jun 2008
The Hon. Craig Emerson MP - Prosperity & Fairness in a Market Democracy
Tue, 10 Jun 2008
Sue Gordon - The Northern Territory Emergency Response: A Reflection
Tue, 03 Jun 2008
Milton Osborne - Phnom Penh: Yesterday and Today
Tue, 27 May 2008
Babette Smith - No Fatal Shore - Re-envisaging Australian History
Wed, 21 May 2008
Catherine Lumby - The Porn Report
Tue, 20 May 2008
Kamal Nath - India's Century
Thu, 15 May 2008
Helen Irving- Why Constitutions Matter to Women
Tue, 06 May 2008
The Hon. Stephen Conroy MP - Broadband and the Digital Economy
Tue, 22 Apr 2008
Peter Balakian: The World’s Response to the Armenian Genocide
Thu, 17 Apr 2008
Kevin Rudd: Australia 2020 - Setting our Nation's Sights for the Future
Wed, 16 Apr 2008
SHELLEY GARE - Chasing Ishmael - Truth, racism, blockbuster publishing and the US media
Fri, 11 Apr 2008
JOHN HATZISTERGOS - A Charter of rights or a Charter of Wrongs?
Thu, 10 Apr 2008
Ross Fitzgerald, Margaret Fink and Gerry Connolly- Growing Old (Dis)gracefully
Tue, 01 Apr 2008
Tony Moore, Pru Goward - Doug Kirsner - Reforming the ABC – It’s not Just About Money
Tue, 01 Apr 2008
Andrew Robb- Uranium Sales To India: A Strategic Imperative
Wed, 26 Mar 2008
Malcolm Turnbull- Taxation and Climate Change
Tue, 18 Mar 2008
FRANK BRENNAN & PAUL CLEARY: - East Timor: What’s Wrong
Wed, 12 Mar 2008
PETER COCHRANE - PENELOPE NELSON : Early Colonial Society: Bligh and Wentworth
Mon, 10 Mar 2008
ENE ERGMA - Estonia: From Soviet occupation to e-government in the European Union
Wed, 05 Mar 2008
THE HON. KEVIN ANDREWS - SENATOR MARISE PAYNE - THE HON. CHRISTOPHER PYNE -: Liberals and the Future: Three perspectives
Wed, 27 Feb 2008
THE HON. LINDSAY TANNER - Business De-regulation
Mon, 18 Feb 2008
HERB KEINON - Trials and Tribulations of Life in Israel
Thu, 14 Feb 2008
DAVID DAY and ELLY SPARK - The Weather Report
Wed, 06 Feb 2008
ANNABEL CRABB - GEORGE MEGALOGENIS - ARTHUR SINODINOS Politics: Post the Howard Government
Tue, 29 Jan 2008
MICK KEELTY - Terrorism: Policing New Paradigm
Tue, 22 Jan 2008
DAVID MORGAN: Reflections on a Life in the Economic Fast Lane
Thu, 13 Dec 2007
GLENN STEVENS - CENTRAL BANK COMMUNICATION
Tue, 04 Dec 2007
HARRY GELBER - CHINA’S ECONOMIC PROBLEMS: IMPLICATIONS FOR CHINA’S FOREIGN POLICY
Tue, 27 Nov 2007
MICHAEL LEDEEN: THE IRANIAN-TIME BOMB
Thu, 22 Nov 2007
JANA WENDT - MEETING THE GOOD, THE GREAT AND THE FORMIDABLE
Tue, 20 Nov 2007
JOCELYN CHEY - CHINESE “SOFT POWER” – DIPLOMACY AND THE CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE
Wed, 14 Nov 2007
DIANE LANGMORE - The Australian Dictionary of Biography: A National Asset
Thu, 08 Nov 2007
PETER KEEL AND NORMAN LUCAS - Managing Reputation
Tue, 30 Oct 2007
CARDINAL GEORGE PELL - God and Caesar
Wed, 24 Oct 2007
KAY FERRES AND DAVID ADAIR- Who Profits From the Arts? Taking the Measure of Culture
Wed, 17 Oct 2007
SUSAN MITCHELL - Sonia, Tammie and Janette- Life with the Prime Minister
Tue, 16 Oct 2007
CHRISTOPHER HILL - The United States in the Asia Pacific
Fri, 12 Oct 2007
THE HON. JOHN HOWARD - The Right Time: Constitutional Recognition for Indigenous Australians
Wed, 10 Oct 2007
STEVE FIELDING - The Clash of Economic Liberalism and Social Conservatism
Wed, 26 Sep 2007
GORDON PARKE & TESSA WIGNEY - Bringing Depression to Heel
Tue, 25 Sep 2007
HUGH MACKAY AND SOL LEBOVIC - Contemporary Australia: Two Views
Tue, 25 Sep 2007
ALISON BROINOWSKI AND ALAN DUPONT: Questions
Thu, 20 Sep 2007
ALISON BROINOWSKI AND ALAN DUPONT: Alison Broinowski and Alan Dupont- Allied or Addicted?: Two Views
Wed, 29 Aug 2007
KIM HUYNH - Mum, Dad and International Relations
Thu, 23 Aug 2007
CHRIS LOWNEY: Heroic Leaders- Who are they: what they know and how they live
Wed, 22 Aug 2007
PETER BEINART -The Good Fight: Why in the United States only Left-Liberals can Win the War on Terror
Tue, 21 Aug 2007
DENNIS RICHARDSON AO: The US and Australia
Wed, 15 Aug 2007
JIM BAIN AND EDNA CAREW - The Australian Financial Sector: A Story of Growth
Tue, 07 Aug 2007
PETER VAN ONSELEN - John Howard
Wed, 01 Aug 2007
THE HON. KEVIN ANDREWS - Citizenship- Committing to a way of life
Tue, 24 Jul 2007
NICHOLAS STUART - Kevin Rudd
Wed, 18 Jul 2007
THE HON. KEVIN RUDD - Fresh Ideas for the Future Economy: Confronting the Challenges of Workforce Participation, The Cost of Living and Childcare
Tue, 17 Jul 2007
JOANNA MENDELSSOHN - Whose School Is It Anyway?
Fri, 13 Jul 2007
Jullia Gillard - The Economics of Social Inclusion
Mon, 09 Jul 2007
BETTINA ARNDT - Remembering Heinz Arndt
Wed, 04 Jul 2007
Stephen Conroy - Labor's Broadband Policy
Tue, 26 Jun 2007
Benita Ferrero-Waldner- EU Foreign Policy: Myth or Reality?
Tue, 26 Jun 2007
John Howard: Little Children are Sacred- To Stabilise and Protect
Tue, 12 Jun 2007
Tony Moore:Does the Left Need a Sense of Humour? Satire and Politics Down Under
Wed, 06 Jun 2007
Tony Abbott: In Defence of Politics
Tue, 05 Jun 2007
Margaret Somerville: An Alternative to "The God Delusion" Views of Richard Dawkins
Tue, 29 May 2007
Leigh Sales: Detainee 002: The Case of David Hicks
Thu, 24 May 2007
Jackie Huggins AM-The 1967 Referendum....Four Decades Later
Wed, 09 May 2007
Thomas L. Friedman - Sydney Institute Annual Lecture - The World is Still Flat
Mon, 16 Apr 2007
The Honourable Joe Hockey, MP Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations - Women and Work
Thu, 12 Apr 2007
Mr David Malouf, AO & Dr Ihab Hassan - Fundamentalism and Literature
Tue, 03 Apr 2007
Mr Wayne Swan, MP - Federal Shadow Treasurer - Labor's Economic Agenda: Creating Wealth for the Common Good
Thu, 08 Mar 2007
Mr Robert McCallum Jr - US Ambassador to Australia: Reflections on a Relationship
Wed, 24 Jan 2007
DAVID SMITH AND HELEN IRVING - A Mate for Head of State
Wed, 22 Nov 2006
LINDSAY TANNER - Shadow Minister for Finance - Love of Learning
Mon, 20 Nov 2006
FRANK BRENNAN, SJ & THE HON BRONWYN BISHOP, MP - Conscience, Politics and the Law
Sat, 18 Nov 2006
Andrew Metcalfe - Australian Immigration: Some Current Themes
Sun, 05 Nov 2006
THE HON ALEXANDER DOWNER, MP - Terrorism Winning the Battle of Ideas
Mon, 30 Oct 2006
MR CHRISTOPHER HILL US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Tue, 17 Oct 2006
MARK SCOTT - Managing Director - Australian Broadcasting Corporation - The ABC's Editorial Values
Thu, 12 Oct 2006
PETER DEBNAM MP - Liberal Leader NSW - A Vision for New South Wales
Tue, 10 Oct 2006
ZACHARY ABUZA - Militant Islam in Southeast Asia
Wed, 20 Sep 2006
Kevin Rudd MP - Future Directions in Australian Foreign Policy
Tue, 19 Sep 2006
GREG SHERIDAN on The Partnership - The Inside Story of the US-Australia Relationship
Wed, 30 Aug 2006
THE HON MALCOLM TURNBULL MP
  





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