Oral history and biography (including autobiography) about politics and politicians
The aim of revisiting Ormonde’s insightful biography of Cairns is to bring new attention to an extraordinary Australian politician whose restless ambition took him from a modest background to Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister of Australia. […]
From his conservative days as a clerk and athlete, then Special Branch detective, Jim Cairns rose to lead the historic marches against the Vietnam war and to give protest a respectable face. […]
Stephen Wilks’ lively look at one of Australia’s most imaginative, ideas-driven politicians — who was briefly Prime Minister — unearths an underrated public figure who dared to dream. Wilks himself dared to come to grips with an almost […]
Historian Dr John Rickard notes how early 20th century Australia became a social laboratory of the world and a magnet for social reformers keen to glimpse what the experiment was all about. […]
Journalist Gay Davidson on Gorton’s Economic Nationalism. Photograph sourced The Melbourne Press Club’s The Australian Media Hall of Fame. […]
A former Chief Whip in the Menzies Government, Henry “Jo” Gullet (1914-1999) reflects on Menzies’ stature and dominance. […]
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. […]
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. […]
Graham Freudenberg evaluates Robert Menzies as the mark and model of being an Australian Prime Minister. […]
Mahler’s Symphony number 8 fires Keating up to deliver his famous “bringing home the bacon” budget. […]
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