Grand Ambition: Paul Keating’s Global Vision for Australia is based on deep archival research – and author James Curran’s access to Keating, with his personal papers.
- Director, Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas (CoPI) and Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, University of Canberra
A new study shows that workplace priorities for Australian historians make it harder for their work to reach Australian readers – despite strong public interest.
The idea of Australia as an immigrant nation is deeply embedded in the country’s politics, culture and identity.
Albanese’s Labor government seems to be under little threat politically. But difficult economic times and an insecure global environment are making voters anxious.
Under Australia’s longest-serving prime minister, home ownership expanded from about half of all homes to more than seven in ten. The consequences reverberate today.
The former senator rose to great influence during the Hawke and Keating Labor governments, but his career was also marked by controversy.
Last week in Sydney, we saw a melodrama acted out that could stand in for the state of Australian universities more generally.
Dorinda Cox has left the Greens to join Labor. She is the latest in a long line of politicians elected under one party banner but serving under another.
If they want to ever win government again, the Liberals will need to look at party and policy reform – and widen their appeal to new parts of the electorate.
Perhaps that’s what those fabled punters want: not a Trump-inspired disruptor, nor a radical visionary, but the kind of bloke you’d trust with your tax return.
Frank Bongiorno reviews a collection of essays by Australia’s thought leaders considering how we might create a better future.
Ten political observers nominate their favourite books about the hustings hustle.
The Liberal leader goes into this election presenting a particularly bleak worldview. Whether voters are in step with that view remains to be seen.
In an extract from The Conversation’s new book on democracy, we chart the origins of the parties that dominate politics today, and the ones that fell by the wayside.
A barbecue, a protest … or a good book? We asked some of our leading historians to choose an illuminating Australia Day read.
Gaffes are littered throughout Australia political history, some with more serious consequences than others. They all shape our politics, for better and worse.
Frank Bongiorno welcomes ‘half dissident’ Alan Behm’s informed study of the relationship between Australia and the US, in a time of too many ‘instant experts’ on American politics.
The most serious challenges for Australia’s political system and social cohesion are not the prospect of a Muslim party or political movement.
Scott Morrison’s Plans for Your Good is part political memoir, part self-help book, and very strange.
Scott Morrison deserves credit for his government’s handling of the economics of the COVID pandemic. But aside from that, he treated politics purely as a game.
In the end, the “yes” case failed to answer two basic questions: what was the problem to be solved, and how would the Voice help solve it?
A new study tracks the number of history academics and history students in Australia. The results are alarming.
It might seem as though there would be a host of lucrative options for a former leader after politics, but that’s not always the case.
The memorial promotes a powerful national origin story. The story of frontier warfare is also a powerful foundation story that deserves to be told.
Years of cost-cutting measures have left Australia’s national galleries, libraries, archives and museums in dire straits.
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