- 2012 Gough Whitlam Oration
- 2012 What Matters? Competition
- Impacts of High Stakes Testing
- 2012 Behind the Lines Exhibition
- Forum: Australia's Population Challenge
- Perspectives
- Young People and Democracy
- Federalism and Australian Schooling
- The Impact of Government Contracts
- 2011 Labour Market Evolution Symposium
- 2011 Gough Whitlam Oration
- Archives
- What Matters? Competition 2011
- Exhibition: Shell-shocked
- Exhibition: Behind the Lines
- 2010 Economy Symposium
- Exhibition: Billy Hughes At War
- ParraMac: The Grand Macquarie Feast
- Exhibition: Mrs Prime Minister
- Governing the Economy Symposium
- Getting to Grips with the Economy
- Energy Security: The Real Story
Andrew West
Andrew West is a long-time journalist and broadcaster. He is now the presenter of The Religion & Ethics Report on ABC Radio National. He has been a senior reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun-Herald and The Australian and a columnist with the online magazine newmatilda.com. He is the author of two books, Bob Carr: A Self Made Man (HarperCollins, 2003) and Inside The Lifestyles of the Rich and Tasteful (Pluto, 2006). His piece on Kevin Rudd's faith was featured in The Best Australian Political Writing (MUP, 2008). His work has also appeared in leading international publications, including The Monthly, The New York Times, The South China Morning Post and The Christian Science Monitor, where he has been a contributing correspondent. In 2009 he presented and produced The New Politics for the ABC.
In 1997 and 1998, Andrew was an editor and writer with United Press International in Washington, D.C., covering the Clinton White House.
Andrew has degrees from the University of Sydney (BA Hons., politics and modern history) and Columbia University in New York City (MSc.), which he attended on an International Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship.
Andrew has been a judge of the Whitlam Institute's What Matters? essay competition since its inception.
