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13 June 2018 Are we creating sustainable and resilient communities? What are we doing right? What are we doing wrong? What do we need to do better? Cathy Smith – Inaugural Turnbull Foundation Women in Built Environment Scholar(UNSW), Richard Rogers fellow Harvard

It has been great to see the interest being taken and registrations for our forum next Wednesday, 9 May. We’re glad to be able to continue our program for this year with some insight into the issue of ‘Women and

We’re glad to be able to continue our program for this year with some insight into the issue of ‘Women and Equality’ coming from our panel of remarkable women including: Rosemarie Milsom, Journalist and Director, Newcastle Writers Festival – Emma

Many thanks to the 120 or so members and attendees who came along to Souths to hear from Professor Roy Green about some potential futures for the Port of Newcastle.  There has been a number of stories in the press

Don’t miss the chance to be part of our next event in our diverse 2018 program! As reported in The Guardian, on 18th December last year, the new chair of the Port of Newcastle says there’s an urgent need to

Around 140 people made up the audience to hear Newcastle Institute Patron Ross Gittins open this year’s speaking program at Souths Newcastle on 14 March. Entry to this event for the first time included an online registration and payment option

Rent-seeking, the ‘game of mates’, and the stuff-ups of economic reform Are governments and their bureaucracies ensuring that Australia’s businesses give their customers a good deal, or are they just helping businesses live an easier, less competitive life at their

2018 Program We’re excited to announce the first three months of our 2018 program knowing that there is plenty to interest everybody across all three programs. We know that you will also enjoy the remaining months to come with plenty

We hope that everybody has had an excellent holiday season and the opportunities to reflect and recharge that this can bring. In between enjoying the same opportunities, members of our planning committee have been busy looking at putting together some

The next Public Forum hosted by The Newcastle Institute will feature the work of the newDemocracy, an independent, non-partisan foundation which works to develop alternative models of citizen-based democracy and restore trust in public decision-making. newDemocracy was founded a decade