The Institute
About the Institute
Our purpose, editorial approach and institutional authorship.
The Alderwick Institute is a research publication examining political power, influence and public accountability, with a focus on Israel, Palestine and Australian public life.
We ask how official narratives hold up against evidence, whose interests receive a hearing, and how access and advocacy may shape public decisions. Our articles make arguments. They also give readers the sources and qualifications needed to challenge those arguments.
Our first collection
The opening collection examines the evidence of genocide in Gaza, settlement policy, the defence of Israel’s radical right, the boundaries of antisemitism policy, and protest rights in New South Wales. The articles connect events in Israel and Palestine to language and institutional choices in Australia.
Our focus is on states, political programmes, organisations and attributable conduct. Jewish identity does not establish a political position; Palestinian identity does not diminish a person’s right to speak. We reject collective blame and distinguish criticism of a state or ideology from hostility towards a people.
Why we publish under an institutional name
Articles are published under the byline The Alderwick Institute. This is an institutional editorial credit. Original authors, organisations and photographers are credited where their work is cited or used.
We use an institutional byline to keep the people behind the publication’s personal identities private while placing our arguments and evidence in public. This is a deliberate privacy choice, not a claim to special expertise or privileged information. It also limits what readers can independently check about individual authors’ credentials and interests.
Accountability therefore has to be visible in the work: named and linked sources, distinctions between fact and inference, consideration of contrary evidence, and a public record of substantive corrections and relevant replies. Readers can challenge a specific claim through our institutional contact address. An institutional byline does not exempt an article from scrutiny.
Our name does not imply university affiliation or official accreditation. The basis for assessing an article is its argument, evidence and handling of uncertainty.
Open to scrutiny
Readers and people discussed in our research can supply contrary evidence, identify errors or submit a response. Our methodology explains the distinctions behind our reporting; our corrections policy explains how to challenge it.