RUSI NSW

Lecture at the Anzac Memorial Auditorium, Hyde Park South, Sydney 1.00 pm – 3.00 pm
Networking Opportunity and Lunch : 12.00 noon -12.45 pm (before the lecture)

*** Due to the high interest in this Lecture, seating is limited for this event to 70 participants.
Registration via our website https://rusinsw.org.au/site/ActPay.php is ESSENTIAL.
On this occasion, we may not be able to accommodate unregistered attendees

ENIGMA Machines, how they work - demonstration and explanation of a genuine WW2 ENIGMA cipher machine - and Modern Cyber Warfare
Speaker: Mr Mike Pritchard, Director Australian Spy Museum
The Enigma machine is a cipher device was employed extensively by N**i Germany during World War II, in all branches of the German military. The Enigma machine was considered so secure that it was used to encipher operation orders and the most top-secret messages. Mike will also speak on modern cyber warfare.

The Role of an Information Warfare Officer in the Royal Australian Navy
Speaker: LCDR Michael Baruch RAN, Maritime Intelligence & Information Warfare School, (MIIWS) HMAS Watson
Information warfare is the integrated employment of Navy’s information-based capabilities (communications, cyber, intelligence, networks, electronic warfare and imagery) to degrade, deny, deceive or destroy an enemy’s information environment or to enhance the effectiveness of friendly operations.

RUSI NSW Members: FREE admission, Non-members: $15
ADF serving personnel: FREE admission.

Silent Auction of rare and valuable books

The RUSI NSW Ursula Davidson Library is holding a silent auction of 111 rare and valuable books on 31 July 2026.

A catalogue of the books for auction, including details of the books, the condition of the books and indicative prices, can be viewed at:
https://rusinsw.au/documents/RUSI_AUCTION_BOOK_CATALOGUE_310326_2nd.pdf

The books for auction will be available for viewing and inspection in the Ursula Davidson Library Reading Room located in the Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park Sydney from Monday 27 July 2026.

Bidding will commence on 31 July 2026 from 9am and will conclude by 5pm. Access to the bid system is available via this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfeoCL_Ce5vEfyD6ZUeaBJhFTuRqxd-tz7Ox4eWmvU40pVlPQ/viewform

This link will take you to a bid form. Please complete a bid form for each book on which you are bidding. Successful bidders will be contacted during the following week via email. On being informed of a successful bid, payment should be made within seven days, using the payment facility on the RUSI NSW website.

All funds raised from the auction will be used to support the library’s efforts in book repair and the acquisition of new books.

We thank you for your participation in this silent auction.

Supporting Legacy

Stand With Veterans’ Families Flexible shifts

RUSI NSW Lecture Tuesday 28 July 2026

Australia's Food Security
Speaker: Mr Andrew Henderson Principal of Agsecure, Senior Fellow Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Whilst Australia is a food secure nation, our food system is facing a range of challenges, post COVID-19 and recent severe drought conditions in eastern Australia, concerns have been raised about Australia’s food security.

Australia's Fuel Security
Speaker: Air Vice-Marshal John Blackburn AO (Ret'd), former Deputy Chief of the Air Force
The crisis in the Middle East has disrupted global oil supply, has the Australian Government strengthened Australia’s fuel supply now and into the future?

Lecture at the Anzac Memorial Auditorium, Hyde Park South, Sydney 1pm – 3.00pm

and for Networking Opportunity : 12.00noon -1pm
(before the lecture)

Everyone is welcome -
RUSI NSW Members: FREE admission, Non-members: $15
ADF serving personnel: FREE admission.

Pre-paid sandwiches served at 12.00am
Book and pay by the Friday before the event or pay at the door.
To order and pay via credit card - https://rusinsw.org.au/site/ActPay.php

RUSI NSW Lecture Tuesday 30 June 2026

Topic: The Defence Strategic Review 2026 Update

Speaker: Associate Professor Adam Lockyer, School of International Studies at Macquarie University

About the speaker: A/Prof. Lockyer has published widely on issues relating to Australian defence strategy, US defence and foreign policy, post-conflict reconstruction, governance and insurgency. His article titled "The Logic of Interoperability: Australia's Acquisition of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter" won the SAGE Award for the best international contribution to a Canadian academic journal in 2013. His article entitled "Evaluating Civil Development in Counterinsurgency Operations" won the prestigious Boyer Prize for best original article published in the Australian Journal of International Affairs in 2012. His forthcoming book is titled: Conventional Maritime Deterrence: The Operational Foundations of Influence at Sea (Georgetown University Press).

Lecture at the Anzac Memorial Auditorium, Hyde Park South, Sydney 1pm -2pm

Everyone is welcome - Networking Opportunity and Pre-lecture lunch – 12noon -1pm

RUSI NSW Members: FREE admission, Non-members: $15
ADF serving personnel: FREE admission.

Pre-paid sandwiches served at 12.00am
Book and pay by the Friday before the event or pay at the door.
To order and pay via credit card - https://rusinsw.org.au/site/ActPay.php
Or send an email to our office: [email protected]

Plan a great day put at Government House

Anzac Memorial's newest exhibition: Lustre
An artwork exhibition inspired by the Allied campaigns in Greece and Crete in 1941. Entry is free Auditorium, Lower Floor 15 May - 15 July 2026
The clever Librarians in the Ursula Davidson Library have created a reading list about the Lustre Force and to compliment the event.

The reading list includes the unique collection of the Lustre Force despatches submitted to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and first hand accounts of combined Australian, New Zealand and British army units deployed to protect Greece from N**i attack in 1941.

Download the reading list here -https://rusinsw.org.au/Reading_List/Greece.pdf
All are welcome to come to the library and read these interesting books.

#1941

Australia’s Critical Infrastructure in the Grey Zone: analysing our evolving digital & social attack environment.

Speaker: Mr Edward Farrell, CEO and Principal Consultant
Mercury Information Security Services

RUSI NSW Lecture Tuesday 26 May 2026
Lecture at the Anzac Memorial Auditorium, Hyde Park South, Sydney 1pm - 2pm
Networking from 12noon to 1pm - all are welcome.

Everyone is welcome - RUSI NSW Members: FREE admission, Visitors: $15, ADF serving personnel: FREE admission.

Pre-ordered and paid sandwiches served at 12.00am
Book and pay by the Friday before the event or pay at the door.
To order and pay via credit card - https://rusinsw.org.au/site/ActPay.php
Or send an email to our office: [email protected] or call: (02) 8262 2922 with any questions.

Images sourced from the speaker and WikiMedia Commons

Want to learn how you can turn memories into written stories and discover practical steps for uncovering your family’s military service?
Join author Ned Manning Author and RUSI NSW Librarian Carrol Miller for a hands-on workshop at the Anzac Memorial exploring the art of researching, shaping, and sharing personal and family stories.

Ned Manning is a writer, actor and teacher, with a career spanning decades across Australian theatre. In 2023, he published his first novel, Painting the Light – a story of love, idealism and commitment to social change in a time of deep conservatism, loosely based on the story of his parents.

Carrol Miller holds a Master of Arts in History from the University of Sydney. She taught History and English for many years in a number of Independent schools in Sydney. Currently she volunteers as a librarian at the RUSI Library in the Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park.

📅 Saturday 23 May 2026
🕙 10:00am – 12:30pm, including a morning tea break
📍 Anzac Memorial Memorial, Hyde Park or online via Microsoft Teams
Places are limited.
Book your spot now 👉
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/everyone-has-a-story-to-tell-workshop-tickets-1982259453386?aff=ebdssbdestsearch