The Sydney Institute is a privately funded[1] Australian policy forum founded on the 23 of August, 1989.
[3][4] Columnist and writer Gerard Henderson is the executive director of the institute.
[7] Gerard and Anne Henderson had previously run the South Australian branch of the Institute of Public Affairs, and run foul of the state Minister for Health who banned cigarette advertising.
[8] The couple then shifted to Sydney where they set up the IPA's New South Wales branch.
[9][10] However, the Centre for International Studies had shared publishing resources and a territorial agreement with the Melbourne-based Institute of Public Affairs not to infringe on each other's sources of corporate donations, so the Hendersons created their own institute, and Philip Morris was happy to contribute to both.