Transformation comes through people

A flourishing society requires leaders who can see the world with a clear vision and have the skills and character to work to make this a reality. LMI exists to train these people.

Our Vision

A growing network of wise leaders equipped with the character, knowledge, and skills to serve.

Our Mission

To train and support wise Christian leaders for politics and culture who are biblically faithful, culturally intelligent, and positively engaged for the common good.

Our Guiding Principles

People

transformed by the gospel, transforming politics and culture

Deep Formation

of character through community

Biblical

truth as the standard for our mission, content, and methods

Informed

with historical and cutting-edge perspectives on contemporary and future issues

Accomplished

with exceptional professional competency

Supported

with professional development and fellowship

Leaders

who demonstrate love for others and joyful dependence on God through resilience, courage, self-control, gentleness, humility and hope

People

transformed by the gospel, transforming politics and culture

Deep Formation

of character through community

Biblical

truth as the standard for our mission, content, and methods

Informed

with historical and cutting-edge perspectives on contemporary and future issues

Accomplished

with exceptional professional competency

Supported

with professional development and fellowship

Leaders

who demonstrate love for others and joyful dependence on God through resilience, courage, self-control, gentleness, humility and hope

Our Story

The Lachlan Macquarie Institute’s roots began with the vision to see leaders who under the pressures and complexities of political life would be able to maintain the convictions and principles that led them to seek office.

Our Ethos

LMI is non-partisan. We regularly have faculty and guests from across the Australian political spectrum.

LMI is not a lobbying organisation. Our goal is not to instruct our fellows how to vote on political issues but to give them the intellectual tools and practical skills to be effective and wise leaders regardless of their political convictions.

LMI is a Christian organisation but we are not denominationally affiliated. We actively seek to bring together students and faculty from across the mainstream Christian tradition. We teach from within a Christian worldview while preparing our fellows for leadership within the pluralist, liberal political tradition of Australia.

A Brief History

  • 2007

    An internship program started under the auspices of the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL).

  • 2011

    Lachlan Macquarie Institute was established as an independent organisation and began to establish its fellowship programs.

  • 2016

    LMI moves to a twenty-five-acre property in Murrumbateman, hosting a variety of short and long-term live-in programs.

  • 2022

    The opening of the McLellan Centre.