Dr Neville Meaney, Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, has a long standing research interest in international history, especially concerning the way in which ideology, culture and geopolitics have interacted to shape the changing character of Australia’s relations with the world. Neville Meaney’s books include Towards a New Vision: Australia and Japan Across Time [...]
Dr Margaret Kelly is a lecturer in Law at Macquarie University and teaches Constitutional and Administrative Law. Before taking up an academic career, Margaret Kelly worked in the Cabinet Office in Canberra and was head of the Administrative Law section in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet from 1987-88. In a piece for The [...]
The Honourable Susan Ryan is a strong supporter of a Charter of Rights for Australia. A Minister in the Hawke and Keating governments, her legislative contributions included the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 and the Affirmative Action Act 1986. Since then, she has worked in business and public administration, and acted as Deputy Chairman of the [...]
Jana Wendt is one of Australia’s best known journalists, having presented segments of Network 9’s 60 Minutes, A Current Affair, Dateline and Sunday. Since leaving television, Jana Wendt has written two books – A Matter of Principle and, in 2010, Nice Work which fleshes out the unusual working lives of an assortment of Australians, from [...]
For writer and art historian Patricia Anderson, Robert Hughes before his US life and fame is almost another person. His years at Sydney University marked him out and Anderson captures a picture of not only of his burgeoning talent there but also university life in Sydney in the post war years, the birth and death [...]
War historian C.E.W. Bean’s correspondence from WWI made him a household name in Australia. In 1919, Bean returned to Gallipoli to fill in the missing pieces of what happened during the campaign, taking with him a team of artists on what he called the Australian Historical Mission. Their aim was to collect battlefield relics and [...]
