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Frank Bongiorno

The Australian National University, School of History, Faculty Member

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My interests are mainly in Australian political, cultural and labour history. I've focused in previous work on the political history of the Australian labour movement, and have also published on Australian historiography and the history of unorthodox religion.

My books include: The Sex Lives of Australians: A History (Black Inc., Melbourne 2012: new edition 2015)
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My new book is:
The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia
Available from 21 October 2015
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Flinders University of South Australia

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University of Bath

University of Antwerp

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Università degli Studi "La Sapienza" di Roma

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Universidad de Cadiz

International Institute of Social History

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Universidad de Buenos Aires

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Università degli Studi di Trieste

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Papers by Frank Bongiorno

New research reveals our complex attitudes to Australia Day

The conversation, 2019

Life in Australia Historic Events Survey: Australians Name the 10 Most Significant Historic Events of Their Lifetime

Manning Clark Now

At the time of his death, Manning Clark enjoyed a celebrity status as an historian and, for many,... more At the time of his death, Manning Clark enjoyed a celebrity status as an historian and, for many, for his prophet-like role as the country’s conscience. His work has subsequently declined in appreciation—partly affected by right-wing attacks, but largely because a new generation of scholars had moved on to more sectional and identity interests. Interest in the life, rather than the work, has continued somewhat, with three scholarly biographies in the same period. This article traces that process of decline, and revision, and arrives at a sense of the continuing place for Manning Clark.

The High Commissioners: Introduction

Sexuality: An Australian Historian's Perspective

N 2004 A CONTROVERSY ERUPTED WHEN IT CAME TO LIGHT THAT THE AUSTRALIAN education minister, Brenda... more N 2004 A CONTROVERSY ERUPTED WHEN IT CAME TO LIGHT THAT THE AUSTRALIAN education minister, Brendan Nelson, had vetoed several projects recommended for funding by the Australian Research Council (ARC). The provocation for Nelson's action on behalf of the conservative government to which he belonged was an article published in a tabloid newspaper by right-wing columnist Andrew Bolt, criticising the ARC for supporting 'peek-in-your-pants researchers fixated on gender or race' (Bolt, 'Grants to Grumble'). Bolt's campaign against the ARC continued for several years, as did Nelson's vetting of research proposals. Among the columnist's targets were a project on 'the cultural history of the body in modern Japan', and another on 'attitudes towards sexuality in Judaism and Christianity in the Hellenistic Greco-Roman era' (Bolt, 'Paid to be Pointless'; Macintyre). The identity of the researchers and projects that Nelson had actually rejected remained a secret but university researchers, guided by Bolt's fixation with projects about sex, took for granted that these were prominent among those culled. One researcher later commented that applicants were omitting the words 'sexuality', 'class' and 'race' from proposals in an effort to avoid the minister's wrath (Alexander). The episode raised many questions-including about academic freedom-but was of particular interest to researchers of sexuality. Why did such projects lend I

Bernard O'Dowd and the 'Problem' of Race

So wrote Humphrey McQueen in 1970: and historians have largely accepted his contention that Austr... more So wrote Humphrey McQueen in 1970: and historians have largely accepted his contention that Australian nationalism and racism were inseparable bedfellows in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The aim of this paper is to explore the racial ideas of one radical nationalist intellectual of this period, Bernard O'Dowd (18661953), who seems to be an exception to the McQueen thesis. Its object, however, is not merely to provide a sketch of the ideas of an eccentric man. Instead, I am pursuing a method advocated by the cultural historian Robert Darnton of attempting to understand the past by exploring it at the points 'where it seems to be most opaque':

The Problem of Belonging: Contested Country in Australian Local History

New Scholar, Mar 19, 2014

In the 1990s, a distinctive body of local history writing emerged which grappled with the problem... more In the 1990s, a distinctive body of local history writing emerged which grappled with the problem of how Indigenous and non-Indigenous, and 'old' and 'new' Australians (migrants), could relate ethically to the same country. These vernacular, personal and emotional histories narrated the particularity of the local while linking the interpretation of relatively limited geographical spaces to larger questions of national identity and belonging. The histories were a response to what we call the 'belonging crisis', which was prompted by the end of empire, the eclipse of whiteness as an acceptable basis for belonging, mass non-British migration, and the emergence of Aboriginality as a central element of national culture. While there is a longer tradition of vernacular local history in Australia which invariably stood in an uneasy relationship with more formal and academic modes, the recent histories represent an effort to transcend these traditional distinctions. This ambition is related to their fundamentally ethical and activist purpose of identifying a cultural space where reconciliation between different cultures might be effected.

Labor, Loyalty and Peace: Two Anzac Controversies of the 1920s

Labour History, 2014

Between the two world wars, the conservative parties dominated federal politics but Labor governm... more Between the two world wars, the conservative parties dominated federal politics but Labor governments often ruled in the states. Since most key issues concerning Anzac commemoration occurred at state level, the result was that the Australian Labor Party (ALP) had little choice but to grapple with the emergent culture of Anzac commemoration. This article explores two case studies in the 1920s, one from Victoria and the other from Western Australia. In particular, decisions by state Labor governments to regulate teaching about the Great War in primary schools, which need to be seen as part of a wider effort by the labour movement in the 1920s to counter 'jingoism,' led to howls of protest and, in the Victorian case, contributed to the fall of the government. This article examines these controversies as instances of the labour movement's interwar engagement with the Anzac tradition. While the Labor Party contested militaristic nationalism, it also invested in Anzac commemoration and incurred significant political costs through its effort to substitute an alternative understanding of Anzac that would promote international peace and arbitration.

‘Such a Great Space of Water between Us’: Anzac Day in Britain, 1916–39

Australian Historical Studies, 2014

Anzac Day at Home and Abroad: Towards a History of Australia’s National Day

History Compass, 2012

Over the last hundred years, Anzac Day (25 April), the anniversary of the initial landing of Aust... more Over the last hundred years, Anzac Day (25 April), the anniversary of the initial landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at Gallipoli in 1915, has captured the Australian and New Zealand national imaginations. The day remembers the first significant engagement involving Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. This article is an early report of a major project that will chart Anzac Day’s origins, development and contested meanings. It is both an historical study, tracing changes in commemoration and remembrance over time, and an investigation of the ways in which Australians and New Zealanders mark Anzac Day in the present day. It will interrogate the shaping of historical sensibility by exploring the complex connections between personal and collective remembrance. One of the challenges to understanding Anzac Day is dealing with the multiplicity of meanings of such a large-scale, diverse and now venerable (in modern Australian terms) observation. It will also examine the neglected subject of Anzac Day’s observance outside the Australia and New Zealand – in Europe, Asia, North Africa and the Pacific – where it has long played a role in expressing the identities of Antipodean expatriate communities.

Teaching & Learning Guide for: Whose War Was It Anyway? Some Australian Historians and the Great War

History Compass, 2009

Barbeques and black armbands: Australians’ attitudes to Australia Day

Watershed: The 2022 Australian Federal Election: Launch Speech by Frank Bongiorno 9 October 2023

Watershed: The 2022 Australian Federal Election: Launch Speech by Frank Bongiorno 9 October 2023, 2023

Watershed: The 2022 Australian Federal Election, ed. Anika Gauja, Marian Sawer and Jill Shepherd,... more

‘British to the bootstraps?’

Australian Historical Studies, 2005

FRANK BONGIORNO Australian policy-makers gave considerable attention to the question of India's r... more FRANK BONGIORNO Australian policy-makers gave considerable attention to the question of India's relationship to the British Commonwealth in the years following the Second World War. Australia's Minister for External Affairs, H.V. Evatt, was eager to retain India in the Commonwealth, but insisted that the Indians, who were committed to a republican constitution, be required to give some recognition to the royal prerogative. While Evatt's notion of dominion status was consistent with the aspirations and national identities of some of the old dominions, and Australia in particular, it was ill-suited to the 'new" Asian members of the Commonwealth in a period of rapid decolonisation in their region. Ultimately, it was only after Australian Prime Minister J.B. Chifley took control of Australia "s policy in this field, and adopted a more flexible and less legalistic approach, that a resolution of the difficulty began to emerge. Ultimately, Australian policy contributed to a recasting of the Commonwealth in the late 1940s that can be seen as an effort to extend the life of British Australia. INDIA LOOMED LARGE in the thoughts of Australian political elites in the years immediately following the Second World War. 1 The Australian Labor government's postwar emphasis on regional relationships-in the context of a commitment to multilateralism based on Australian membership of the United Nations and the British Commonwealth-ensured that India regularly occupied the attention of Australian policy-makers, whether the subject under consideration was security, trade, development or immigration. While the bilateral relationship was generally harmonious in the years between the transfer of power in India in 1947 and the fall of the Chifley Labor government in Australia late in 1949, there were also some sources of tension, such as justified Indian resentment of the White Australia Policy and of Australian pretensions to leadership in the Asia-Pacific region. 2 The differences in outlook between policy-making elites in these two very different 'postcolonial' nations, however, became most apparent when they each confronted the problem of India's future relationship to the Commonwealth in the late 1940s. As Hector Mackenzie has recently remarked, there has

Norman Makin and postwar diplomacy, 1946–51

Australia goes to Washington, 2016

and the current head of mission, Joe Hockey (2016-). Beazley, however, has contributed to the vol... more and the current head of mission, Joe Hockey (2016-). Beazley, however, has contributed to the volume in the form of reflections by the outgoing Australian Ambassador to the US. More detailed analyses of these last three ambassadorships await the elapse of further time and the opening of primary historical records under the Archives Act 1983, which will see records from 2005 and after become available in the period from 2025 onward. The historical records relating to the current Ambassador, Joe Hockey, will be open to the public around the time of the centenary of the establishment of the Australian legation in Washington in 2040. In lieu of detailed treatment, the next section of the introduction offers a brief analysis of the last three Ambassadors to the United States. They included one career public servant and two political appointees. The career public servant, Dennis James Richardson, was born in Kempsey in 1947 and educated at the University of Sydney. He joined the Department of External Affairs in 1969 as a graduate, becoming a member of a remarkable cohort that included Allan Gyngell, Sandy Hollway, Ric Smith, Bill Farmer and John Dauth. These men and Richardson all went on to become heads of agencies and to occupy senior diplomatic positions.

The life in Australia: historic events survey

* Includes mentions of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation and visits to Australia ** Including infra... more

The high commissioners : Australia’s representatives in the United Kingdom, 1910-2010

Marks the centenary of the posting of the first Australian High Commissioner in London, so beginn... more Marks the centenary of the posting of the first Australian High Commissioner in London, so beginning what is today Australia's oldest diplomatic mission. In 1910, when Sir George Reid was appointed its first High Commissioner in London, Australia was a self-governing but not yet sovereign state and the Australian Governor-General remained the most important channel of communication between the Australian and United Kingdom governments until the late 1920s. The book traces the history of the office and in doing so illuminates the larger story of Australian-United Kingdom relations in the twentieth century, the evolution of Australia from British colony to sovereign state and the gradual transition of the United Kingdom from head of an empire to member of the European Union.

Whose War Was It Anyway? Some Australian Historians and the Great War

History Compass, 2008

Inaugural Professorial Lecture—Is Australian history still possible? Australia and the global eighties

ANU Historical Journal II

This version has been edited and amended in light of two astute referees' reports, for which the ... more

Class, Populism and Labour Politics in Victoria, 1890-1914

Labour History, 1994

CLASS, POPULISM AND LABOUR POLITICS IN VICTORIA, 1890-19141 ... Two dogs on the outskirts of the ... more

New research reveals our complex attitudes to Australia Day

The conversation, 2019

Life in Australia Historic Events Survey: Australians Name the 10 Most Significant Historic Events of Their Lifetime

Manning Clark Now

At the time of his death, Manning Clark enjoyed a celebrity status as an historian and, for many,... more At the time of his death, Manning Clark enjoyed a celebrity status as an historian and, for many, for his prophet-like role as the country’s conscience. His work has subsequently declined in appreciation—partly affected by right-wing attacks, but largely because a new generation of scholars had moved on to more sectional and identity interests. Interest in the life, rather than the work, has continued somewhat, with three scholarly biographies in the same period. This article traces that process of decline, and revision, and arrives at a sense of the continuing place for Manning Clark.

The High Commissioners: Introduction

Sexuality: An Australian Historian's Perspective

N 2004 A CONTROVERSY ERUPTED WHEN IT CAME TO LIGHT THAT THE AUSTRALIAN education minister, Brenda... more N 2004 A CONTROVERSY ERUPTED WHEN IT CAME TO LIGHT THAT THE AUSTRALIAN education minister, Brendan Nelson, had vetoed several projects recommended for funding by the Australian Research Council (ARC). The provocation for Nelson's action on behalf of the conservative government to which he belonged was an article published in a tabloid newspaper by right-wing columnist Andrew Bolt, criticising the ARC for supporting 'peek-in-your-pants researchers fixated on gender or race' (Bolt, 'Grants to Grumble'). Bolt's campaign against the ARC continued for several years, as did Nelson's vetting of research proposals. Among the columnist's targets were a project on 'the cultural history of the body in modern Japan', and another on 'attitudes towards sexuality in Judaism and Christianity in the Hellenistic Greco-Roman era' (Bolt, 'Paid to be Pointless'; Macintyre). The identity of the researchers and projects that Nelson had actually rejected remained a secret but university researchers, guided by Bolt's fixation with projects about sex, took for granted that these were prominent among those culled. One researcher later commented that applicants were omitting the words 'sexuality', 'class' and 'race' from proposals in an effort to avoid the minister's wrath (Alexander). The episode raised many questions-including about academic freedom-but was of particular interest to researchers of sexuality. Why did such projects lend I

Bernard O'Dowd and the 'Problem' of Race

So wrote Humphrey McQueen in 1970: and historians have largely accepted his contention that Austr... more So wrote Humphrey McQueen in 1970: and historians have largely accepted his contention that Australian nationalism and racism were inseparable bedfellows in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The aim of this paper is to explore the racial ideas of one radical nationalist intellectual of this period, Bernard O'Dowd (18661953), who seems to be an exception to the McQueen thesis. Its object, however, is not merely to provide a sketch of the ideas of an eccentric man. Instead, I am pursuing a method advocated by the cultural historian Robert Darnton of attempting to understand the past by exploring it at the points 'where it seems to be most opaque':

The Problem of Belonging: Contested Country in Australian Local History

New Scholar, Mar 19, 2014

In the 1990s, a distinctive body of local history writing emerged which grappled with the problem... more In the 1990s, a distinctive body of local history writing emerged which grappled with the problem of how Indigenous and non-Indigenous, and 'old' and 'new' Australians (migrants), could relate ethically to the same country. These vernacular, personal and emotional histories narrated the particularity of the local while linking the interpretation of relatively limited geographical spaces to larger questions of national identity and belonging. The histories were a response to what we call the 'belonging crisis', which was prompted by the end of empire, the eclipse of whiteness as an acceptable basis for belonging, mass non-British migration, and the emergence of Aboriginality as a central element of national culture. While there is a longer tradition of vernacular local history in Australia which invariably stood in an uneasy relationship with more formal and academic modes, the recent histories represent an effort to transcend these traditional distinctions. This ambition is related to their fundamentally ethical and activist purpose of identifying a cultural space where reconciliation between different cultures might be effected.

Labor, Loyalty and Peace: Two Anzac Controversies of the 1920s

Labour History, 2014

Between the two world wars, the conservative parties dominated federal politics but Labor governm... more Between the two world wars, the conservative parties dominated federal politics but Labor governments often ruled in the states. Since most key issues concerning Anzac commemoration occurred at state level, the result was that the Australian Labor Party (ALP) had little choice but to grapple with the emergent culture of Anzac commemoration. This article explores two case studies in the 1920s, one from Victoria and the other from Western Australia. In particular, decisions by state Labor governments to regulate teaching about the Great War in primary schools, which need to be seen as part of a wider effort by the labour movement in the 1920s to counter 'jingoism,' led to howls of protest and, in the Victorian case, contributed to the fall of the government. This article examines these controversies as instances of the labour movement's interwar engagement with the Anzac tradition. While the Labor Party contested militaristic nationalism, it also invested in Anzac commemoration and incurred significant political costs through its effort to substitute an alternative understanding of Anzac that would promote international peace and arbitration.

‘Such a Great Space of Water between Us’: Anzac Day in Britain, 1916–39

Australian Historical Studies, 2014

Anzac Day at Home and Abroad: Towards a History of Australia’s National Day

History Compass, 2012

Over the last hundred years, Anzac Day (25 April), the anniversary of the initial landing of Aust... more Over the last hundred years, Anzac Day (25 April), the anniversary of the initial landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at Gallipoli in 1915, has captured the Australian and New Zealand national imaginations. The day remembers the first significant engagement involving Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. This article is an early report of a major project that will chart Anzac Day’s origins, development and contested meanings. It is both an historical study, tracing changes in commemoration and remembrance over time, and an investigation of the ways in which Australians and New Zealanders mark Anzac Day in the present day. It will interrogate the shaping of historical sensibility by exploring the complex connections between personal and collective remembrance. One of the challenges to understanding Anzac Day is dealing with the multiplicity of meanings of such a large-scale, diverse and now venerable (in modern Australian terms) observation. It will also examine the neglected subject of Anzac Day’s observance outside the Australia and New Zealand – in Europe, Asia, North Africa and the Pacific – where it has long played a role in expressing the identities of Antipodean expatriate communities.

Teaching & Learning Guide for: Whose War Was It Anyway? Some Australian Historians and the Great War

History Compass, 2009

Barbeques and black armbands: Australians’ attitudes to Australia Day

Watershed: The 2022 Australian Federal Election: Launch Speech by Frank Bongiorno 9 October 2023

Watershed: The 2022 Australian Federal Election: Launch Speech by Frank Bongiorno 9 October 2023, 2023

Watershed: The 2022 Australian Federal Election, ed. Anika Gauja, Marian Sawer and Jill Shepherd,... more

‘British to the bootstraps?’

Australian Historical Studies, 2005

FRANK BONGIORNO Australian policy-makers gave considerable attention to the question of India's r... more FRANK BONGIORNO Australian policy-makers gave considerable attention to the question of India's relationship to the British Commonwealth in the years following the Second World War. Australia's Minister for External Affairs, H.V. Evatt, was eager to retain India in the Commonwealth, but insisted that the Indians, who were committed to a republican constitution, be required to give some recognition to the royal prerogative. While Evatt's notion of dominion status was consistent with the aspirations and national identities of some of the old dominions, and Australia in particular, it was ill-suited to the 'new" Asian members of the Commonwealth in a period of rapid decolonisation in their region. Ultimately, it was only after Australian Prime Minister J.B. Chifley took control of Australia "s policy in this field, and adopted a more flexible and less legalistic approach, that a resolution of the difficulty began to emerge. Ultimately, Australian policy contributed to a recasting of the Commonwealth in the late 1940s that can be seen as an effort to extend the life of British Australia. INDIA LOOMED LARGE in the thoughts of Australian political elites in the years immediately following the Second World War. 1 The Australian Labor government's postwar emphasis on regional relationships-in the context of a commitment to multilateralism based on Australian membership of the United Nations and the British Commonwealth-ensured that India regularly occupied the attention of Australian policy-makers, whether the subject under consideration was security, trade, development or immigration. While the bilateral relationship was generally harmonious in the years between the transfer of power in India in 1947 and the fall of the Chifley Labor government in Australia late in 1949, there were also some sources of tension, such as justified Indian resentment of the White Australia Policy and of Australian pretensions to leadership in the Asia-Pacific region. 2 The differences in outlook between policy-making elites in these two very different 'postcolonial' nations, however, became most apparent when they each confronted the problem of India's future relationship to the Commonwealth in the late 1940s. As Hector Mackenzie has recently remarked, there has

Norman Makin and postwar diplomacy, 1946–51

Australia goes to Washington, 2016

and the current head of mission, Joe Hockey (2016-). Beazley, however, has contributed to the vol... more and the current head of mission, Joe Hockey (2016-). Beazley, however, has contributed to the volume in the form of reflections by the outgoing Australian Ambassador to the US. More detailed analyses of these last three ambassadorships await the elapse of further time and the opening of primary historical records under the Archives Act 1983, which will see records from 2005 and after become available in the period from 2025 onward. The historical records relating to the current Ambassador, Joe Hockey, will be open to the public around the time of the centenary of the establishment of the Australian legation in Washington in 2040. In lieu of detailed treatment, the next section of the introduction offers a brief analysis of the last three Ambassadors to the United States. They included one career public servant and two political appointees. The career public servant, Dennis James Richardson, was born in Kempsey in 1947 and educated at the University of Sydney. He joined the Department of External Affairs in 1969 as a graduate, becoming a member of a remarkable cohort that included Allan Gyngell, Sandy Hollway, Ric Smith, Bill Farmer and John Dauth. These men and Richardson all went on to become heads of agencies and to occupy senior diplomatic positions.

The life in Australia: historic events survey

* Includes mentions of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation and visits to Australia ** Including infra... more

The high commissioners : Australia’s representatives in the United Kingdom, 1910-2010

Marks the centenary of the posting of the first Australian High Commissioner in London, so beginn... more Marks the centenary of the posting of the first Australian High Commissioner in London, so beginning what is today Australia's oldest diplomatic mission. In 1910, when Sir George Reid was appointed its first High Commissioner in London, Australia was a self-governing but not yet sovereign state and the Australian Governor-General remained the most important channel of communication between the Australian and United Kingdom governments until the late 1920s. The book traces the history of the office and in doing so illuminates the larger story of Australian-United Kingdom relations in the twentieth century, the evolution of Australia from British colony to sovereign state and the gradual transition of the United Kingdom from head of an empire to member of the European Union.

Whose War Was It Anyway? Some Australian Historians and the Great War

History Compass, 2008

Inaugural Professorial Lecture—Is Australian history still possible? Australia and the global eighties

ANU Historical Journal II

This version has been edited and amended in light of two astute referees' reports, for which the ... more

Class, Populism and Labour Politics in Victoria, 1890-1914

Labour History, 1994

CLASS, POPULISM AND LABOUR POLITICS IN VICTORIA, 1890-19141 ... Two dogs on the outskirts of the ... more

Launch speech for John Uhr and Shaun Crowe, Novel Politics: Studies in Australian Political Fiction

Regenerating Integrity and Trust in Australian Institutions: History

Presentation delivered at Academy of Social Sciences in Australia 2018 Symposium, 13 November 201... more

On the Death of Gough Whitlam

The Whitlam Legacy – Reflections on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights and International Law, 21 Novem... more

Labor's 1980s and the Future of Australian Social Democracy

John Cain Lecture, 7 November 2018, Graduate House, University of Melbourne, 220 Leicester Street... more

Launch Speech for Northern Dreams: The Politics of Northern Development in Australia by Lyndon Megarrity

Launch Speech for Dunera Lives: A Visual History by Ken Inglis, Seumas Spark and Jay Winter with Carol Bunyan

From Local History to the History of Place: A Brief History of Local History in Australia

Victoria County History (VCH) International Symposium, Institute of Historical Research, 6-8 Ju... more

Launch speech for Strength in Battle: The Memoirs of Joseph Anderson Panton, Goldfields Commissioner and Magistrate, Edited and Annotated by Hugh Anderson

Launch Speech at Athenaeum Club, 87 Collins Street, Melbourne, 12 June 2018

Australian Studies in Historical Context

This paper is based on presentations delivered to the International Australian Studies Associatio... more This paper is based on presentations delivered to the International Australian Studies Association (InASA) Biennial Conference (Plenary Panel: Australian Studies: 25 Years On, chaired by Hon. Susan Ryan AO), Monash University, Caulfield, 5-7 December 2012 and MCAS Live, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King’s College London, 23 October 2014. It was up-dated in January 2017 and April 2018.

Launch Speech for China and the United States as Aid Donors: Past and Future Trajectories by Patrick Kilby

Launch speech for China and the United States as Aid Donors: Past and Future Trajectories (Policy... more

Opportunity, Merit and Australian Democracy

Manning Clark House event, Muse, Kingston, Canberra, ACT, 13 October 2017

'An Australia of the Spirit': The Fall of Singapore and Australian Nationalism

Fall of Singapore Symposium, National Museum of Australia, 30 October 2017

Launch Speech for Gay Men's Working Lives, Retirement and Old Age by Peter Robinson

Launch speech for Peter Robinson, Gay Men's Working Lives, Retirement and Old Age, The Butterfl... more

Launch speech for The Art of Time Travel: Historians and Their Craft by Tom Griffiths

Launch speech for The Art of Time Travel: Historians and Their Craft by Tom Griffiths, 26 Februar... more

Launch speech for Australian Religious Thought by Wayne Hudson

Launch Speech for Australian Religious Thought by Wayne Hudson, 16 March 2016, Australian Centre ... more

British to their Bootheels too: Britishness and Australian Radicalism

The Trevor Reese Memorial Lecture 2006, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London

Blue Labour: Lessons for Australia

Australian Fabian Society (ACT Branch), Smiths Alternative Bookshop, Canberra, 19 April 2012

Labour and Anzac: Historical Reflections

Honest History Lecture Series, Manning Clark House, 15 June 2014

Launch Speech for Gallipoli: An Exhibition of Photographs by Charles Snodgrass Ryan Manning Clark House

Launch speech for Gallipoli: An Exhibition of Photographs by Charles Snodgrass Ryan Manning Cla... more

Federalism in Australia: How Much Have We Learned from Experience?

Lecture to Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King’s College London and Federal Union, Downer... more