Sydney Institute

Sydney Institute

The Sydney Institute, founded in 1989, is a privately funded current affairs forum.cite web |url= http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/thinkers-of-influence/2005/12/09/1134086810518.html?page=fullpage |title= Thinkers of influence |author= Ewin Hannan and Shaun Carney |work= The Age |date= 10 December 2005 |quote= While not a think tank, it operates as a forum for debate. It does not commission research or have policies.” “The institute is privately funded, with all papers delivered to it published in "The Sydney Papers." ] The Sydney Institute took over the resources of the Sydney Institute of Public Affairs which ceased activity in the late 1980s. [John Hyde, 2002 [http://www.ipa.org.au/files/2002hyde_dry.pdf "Dry, In Defence of Economic Freedom"] ] It receives support from the Australian business community: for a discussion of the sources of its funding, see Brad Norington, "Think Tank Secrets", The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 August 2003, http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/11/1060588322537.html

The Sydney Institute was opened on 23 August 1989 by then New South Wales Premier Nick Greiner with supporting remarks from Bob Carr (then NSW Opposition Leader).

Australian columnist and writer Gerard Henderson is the Executive Director of The Sydney Institute. His wife Anne Henderson, who is also an author, is the Deputy Director.

Activities

It holds weekly forums and an annual dinner at which a lecture is given by a person who has been deemed to have made an important contribution in a particular field at either an international or national level. From time to time the institute organises and hosts international conferences, addresses to the Institute are published in "The Sydney Papers". The Institute also publishes "The Sydney Institute Quarterly". Gerard Henderson is a regular guest on the Radio National Breakfast program. [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/]

Speakers at the Sydney Institute have included the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, former Australian Prime Minister John Howard, former Opposition Leader Kim Beazley, Nobel Prize recipient Peter Doherty, General Peter Cosgrove, former Reserve Bank Governor Ian Macfarlane, Chief Justice Murray Gleeson, and writer David Malouf.

International figures such as Dick Cheney, Jung Chang, William Shawcross, James A. Kelly, Alexander Dubcek, John Ralston Saul and Tariq Ali have also given lectures.

References

External links

* [http://www.thesydneyinstitute.com.au The Sydney Institute home page]
* [http://www.podworkx.com/TheSydneyInstitute The Sydney Institute Podcast]


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