Peter Rose
Workshop
Peter Rose is a poet, critic, novelist and editor. To date he has published four collections of poetry, one novel and edited several anthologies. During the 1990s he was a publisher at Oxford University Press, and since 2001 has been the editor of the Australian Book Review. He was also on the…
Jenny Hocking
Workshop
Progessor Jenny Hocking is the Head of the School of Journalism and Australian Studies at Monash University and is one of Australia’s best-known political biographers. Her work includes Lionel Murphy: A Political Biography (1997); and Frank Hardy: Politics Literature Life (2005). Gough Whitlam: A…
Philip Dwyer
Workshop
Associate Professor Philip Dwyer teaches European History at the University of Newcastle. His biography Napoleon, 1769-1799: The Path to Power, won the National Biography Award in 2008. He is currently working on the sequel to this, as well as a number of related projects that include the war…
Stephen Foster
Workshop
Stephen is an Adjunct Professor in the Research School of Humanities and the Arts, ANU. In the 1980s he was involved with the eleven-volume series Australians: A Historical Library and ran a private heritage company in the 1990s. During the last decade, he was a General Manager at the National…
Mark McKenna
Workshop
Charles Manning Hope Clark has been described as Australia's most famous historian. In 1999, Stephen Holt wrote A Short History of Manning Clark. Brian Matthews' biography Manning Clark: A Life was published in 2008. Associate Professor Mark McKenna's biography of Clark is due to be published this…
The Seven Dwarfs and the Age of Mandarins 1940s-60s
Conference
The 'Seven Dwarfs' epitomise major changes in Australian government administration commencing, in a small way, in the aftermath of the Depression, but gathering momentum with the declaration of war in September 1939 and, subsequently, in leading reconstruction after the war and in the subsequent…
Niki Francis and Kim Rubenstein
Workshop
Biographers face a range of ethical issues. The most difficult is how to protect the academic integrity of a biographical project against pressure to conform to the views of the family and friends of the subject. What does one do, in the worst case scenario, if a family, which had been co-…