Sydney Institute
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The Sydney Institute, founded in 1989, is a privately funded conservative current affairs forum and think tank. It receives support from the Australian business community as well as writers, editors, professionals and others who are interested in current affairs, politics and economics. It strives to maintain good relations with both sides of Australian politics.
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.
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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.
Speakers at the Sydney Institute have included the Australian Prime Minister John Howard, former Opposition Leader Kim Beazley, Noble Prize recipient Peter Doherty, General Peter Cosgrove, 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.
