Literature
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Month: July 2020
Theodore
Edward Theodore – intelligent and highly regarded
Theodore with Prime Minister James Scullin, December 1929. National Library of Australia Reserve Bank official historian, Selwyn Cornish talks of Edward Theodore, Australia’s Treasurer in the Scullin Government, in an interview on economic ideas with […]
On Biography
On Writing Jim Cairns’ Biography
Paul Ormonde talks about his reasons for writing a biography of Dr Jim Cairns, Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister of Australia during the Whitlam Government 1972-195. Paul’s book, A Foolish Public Man was published in […]
James Ford Cairns (1914 – 2003)
Supported bombing Japan
Cairns’s biographer Paul Ormonde on Jim Cairns’s early career and support for the atomic bombing of Japan. Photograph Rennie Ellis.
James Ford Cairns (1914 – 2003)
What if he returned?
Jim Cairns’s biographer Paul Ormonde talks of family honour in keeping the father’s desertion secret and speculates on what might have happened had he come back to the family from the war.
James Ford Cairns (1914 – 2003)
Pride Before the Fall
Jim Cairns’s sureness of self enabled biographer Paul Ormonde to get unusually close to him, a relationship that tripped Cairns up when Ormonde discovered the true fate of Cairns’s father, shrouded for years in family […]
James Ford Cairns (1914 – 2003)
Missing Believed Killed
Jim Cairns confronts evidence that his father deserted and hands the military record to his biographer Paul Ormonde. Cairns tells Gough Whitlam in Parliament about the news and Whitlam is profoundly moved.
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Franklin Street Press
Is a specialist publishing house devoted to autobiography, biography, memoir and oral history.
Education
Joan Montgomery Biography
A chance viewing of an exhibition on American first ladies inspired Kim Rubenstein to write about her PLC school principal Joan Montgomery […]
Law
“As a woman I want no country”
“As a woman I want no country”: Citizenship, Nationality and International law” Dame Roma Mitchell Memorial Lecture – Kim Rubenstein (Law Institute of Victoria, 6 March 2003) I would like to begin by acknowledging the […]