International Speakers Group

Phil Cleary grew up in Coburg in Melbourne’s northern suburbs where he completed an Arts degree at La Trobe University, majoring in politics and sociology. He is a former teacher, footballer and Independent member of the federal parliament – winning former...

As a tireless campaigner for numerous good causes and charities throughout the world, Sir Bob Geldof is able to use his high profile to great effect.  From African famines and aid organisations to business, global politics and communications, Sir Bob has...

Julia Gillard was sworn in as the 27th Prime Minister of Australia on 24 June 2010 and served in that office until June 2013. As Prime Minister and in her previous role as Deputy Prime Minister, Ms Gillard was central to...

After leaving Duke University, Fels was appointed as a Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, where his Duke Ph.D thesis was published as The British Prices and Incomes Board by Cambridge University Press. This set the...

Andrew Bolt is Australia’s most most read social commentator, and, some complain, the most controversial. He writes twice-weekly for Australia’s biggest-selling daily newspaper, Melbourne’s Herald Sun, and also for Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, Adelaide’s Advertiser and the Darwin’s Northern Territory News. His political blog site is...

Michael Pascoe is one of Australia’s most experienced and thoughtful finance and economics commentators with four decades in newspaper, broadcast and on-line journalism, covering the full gamut of economic and business issues, as well as occasionally straying into more whimsical matters...

John Brogden is managing director and chief executive of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He was the State Liberal member for Pittwater from 1996 to 2005 and was the NSW Opposition Leader for 3 years the youngest person ever to...

Tony Blair served as prime minister of the United Kingdom (1997–2007). He was the youngest prime minister since 1812 and the longest-serving Labour prime minister, and his 10-year tenure as prime minister was the second longest continuous period (after Margaret Thatcher’s)...

Paul Keating was born in Sydney on 18 January 1944. He was educated at De La Salle College in Bankstown where he obtained the Intermediate Certificate in 1958. Mr Keating left school at 15, joined the Australian Labor Party at this...

Anna Bligh was Premier of Queensland from 2007 to 2012. Bligh was the first woman to be appointed Premier of Queensland, the third female Premier of an Australian state, and the sixth female head of government of an Australian state or...