Events
Eleanor Roosevelt Pearl Harbour Attack Radio Address
On December 7, 1941, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt talked about the surprise attack on Pearl Harbour at the beginning of her regularly-scheduled weekly radio program on NBC. […]
Month: September 2020
On Biography
World Dictionary of Biography Launch
Gareth Evans launches a new edition of Barry Jones’ World Dictionary of Biography on 28 November 2013. […]
Australian Prime Ministers
Barry Jones and Gough Whitlam
Two huge figures in the Australian Labor Party, polymath and twice President of the Party and the country’s longest-serving minister for science, Barry Jones, and Australia’s Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam (1972-1975), reminisce about their first meeting in what is believed to be the last occasion Whitlam was filmed. […]
On Biography
Oral History and Biography Reference
Dictionary of World Biography Authored by Barry Jones and now in its seventh edition. The Australian Dictionary of Biography The Australian Dictionary of Biography provides concise and informative descriptions of the lives of significant and representative persons in […]
Australian Prime Ministers
1950s new Labor talent takes on party shibboleths
Cairns biographer Paul Strangio contrasts the 1950s new breed of Whitlam and Cairns to the emerging ALP leader Arthur Calwell, who still clings to the party’s old standards. […]
Australian Prime Ministers
Sir Robert Menzies
Graham Freudenberg evaluates Robert Menzies as the mark and model of being an Australian Prime Minister. […]