(2026) SA Premier Brought Sense to Madness of Adelaide Writers’ Festival
Who is he, the only man involved in the 2026 Adelaide Writers Week (AWW) imbroglio not turned to custard?
(2025) Interview with Georgina Downer re Depression Era PM James Scullin
Welcome to Afternoon Light, the podcast of the Robert Menzies Institute by Georgina Downer.
(2025) Hawke and His Legend
This is a competent telling of the Hawke PM story.
Eliza Anderson (1863-1942), Radical and Feminist
Very little has appeared concerning the cultured Scots suffragist and socialist activist Elizabeth or Eliza, as she liked to be called, Anderson (1863-1942).
(2025) Whitlam’s Fall was the High Art of Political Bastardry
No one looks great, fifty years after the dismissal of the Whitlam Government.
(2025) The Drift of Australian Foreign Policy
The purpose of this chapter is to sketch what happened in foreign policy in the first term of the Albanese-led Labor government, and to provide context and analysis of the bigger picture. The word ‘drift’ conveys direction of policy and action, rather than uncertain navigation.
(2025) The Rise, Fall, and Flailing of Jacinta Price
It was not long ago that Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was the hope of the Trump-admiring, MAGA-lite faction of the Liberal Party. Her campaign against the Voice referendum, her earthy wisdom and admirable life story, enthused the “after dark” crowd.
(2025) Broken Windows and Antisemitism
How did we get to here? This weird, startling, savage, ‘new normal’ of anti-Jew hatred?
(2025): Israelis Right to Fear a Hostile Palestinian State
A lot is being asked of Israelis, the Jewish diaspora, and friends right now.
(2025) Worlds Within Worlds of Chinese Communism
Review article published in the Sydney Institute Review, September 2025, of Linda Jaivin’s Bombard the Headquarters! The Cultural Revolution in China, Old Street Publishing [and also Black Inc.], 2025; & Joseph Torigian’s The Party’s Interests Come First. The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping, Stanford University Press, 2025. These two books, written about…