Chronology of Australian Prime Ministers
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 […]
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. […]
A poll of experts rates Bob Hawke as Australia’s second most outstanding Prime Minister only narrowly behind John Curtin, the nation’s World War II leader. […]
William Watt was twice Premier of Victoria before switching to federal politics becoming Australia’s Treasurer, Acting Prime Minister and later Speaker of the House of Representatives. For someone who was Acting Prime Minister for 16 […]
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