Peer-reviewed articles and chapters

With Daniel Casey. ‘Selective Rememberings? Access to Private Documents at the National Archives of Australia’, Humanities Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 1 (2024), forthcoming.

“‘Unemployed Breadwinners’ and ‘Working Mothers’: Male Breadwinner Nostalgia and the 1990s Recession in Australia”, Australian Historical Studies, vol. 54, no. 3 (2023), pp. 424—42. DOI: 10.1080/1031461X.2022.2099434.

“Cope, James Francis (Jim): Speaker 1973—1975”, in ‘Order, Order!’ A Biographical Dictionary of Speakers, Deputy Speakers and Clerks of the Australian House of Representatives, edited by Stephen Wilks (ANU Press, 2023), 175—82.

“Even in the Political Afterlife, Morrison Departs from the Norm”, in 2022: Reckoning with Power and Privilege, edited by Michael Hopkins (Thames & Hudson, 2022), pp. 43—45.

“Jenkins, Henry Alfred (Harry): Speaker 1983—1985”, in ‘Order, Order!’ A Biographical Dictionary of Speakers, Deputy Speakers and Clerks of the Australian House of Representatives, edited by Stephen Wilks (ANU Press, 2023), pp. 267—73.

“Jenkins, Henry Alfred (Harry): Speaker 2008—2011”, in ‘Order, Order!’ A Biographical Dictionary of Speakers, Deputy Speakers and Clerks of the Australian House of Representatives, edited by Stephen Wilks (ANU Press, 2023), pp. 275—83.

“‘Lessons in Statecraft’?: Political Memoirs, Tax Reform, and the National Taxation Summit 1985”, Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 57, no. 2 (2022), pp. 164—79.

“‘For the Historic Record’: Memoirs, History, and Australian Political Culture”. Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 67, no. 2 (2021), pp. 312—30.

“‘A Historian’s Diary’: Autobiography, Life Writing and Neal Blewett’s A Cabinet Diary Revisited”, Australian Journal of Biography and History, vol. 5 (2021), pp. 49—68.

“‘Our Side of the Story’: The Purpose of Rudd – Gillard Labor Cabinet Memoirs and Diaries”, Labour History, no. 120 (2021), pp. 69—94.

“A Life Triumphantly Well Written: Producing the Hawke Legacy, 1979–2019”, ANU Historical Journal II, no. 2 (2020), pp. 81—106.

Reviews

With Michelle Staff. ABC. Ms Represented with Annabel Crabb (2021), reviewed Australian Book Review, 30 August 2021, [online only].

Beaumont, Joan. Australia’s Great Depression (Allen & Unwin, 2022), reviewed for ANUHJ II, no. 4 (2023), pp. 183—86.

Benson, Simon and Geoff Chambers. Plagued: Australia’s Two years of Hell – The Inside Story (Pantera Press, 2022), reviewed for Australian Book Review, November 2022 [online only].

Bowen, Chris. Labor People: The Stories of Six True Believers (Monash University Publishing, 2021), reviewed for Labour History, no. 122 (May 2022), pp. 242—43.

Chavura, Stephen A. and Greg Melleuish. The Forgotten Menzies: The World Picture of Australia’s Longest-Serving Prime Minister (MUP, 2021), reviewed for Australian Policy and History Network, 6 May 2021, https://aph.org.au/2021/05/book-review-the-forgotten-menzies/.

Clews, Simon. The New Academic: How to Write, Present and Profile Your Amazing Research to the World (UNSW Press, 2021), reviewed for Australian Policy and History Network, 29 July 2021, https://aph.org.au/2021/07/book-review-the-new-academic-how-to-write-present-and-profile-your-amazing-research-to-the-world/.

Fukuyama, Francis. Liberalism and its Discontents (Profile, 2022), reviewed for Australian Policy and History Network, 26 July 2022, https://aph.org.au/2022/07/book-review-liberalism-and-its-discontents/.

Hocking, Jenny. The Palace Letters: The Queen, the Governor-General, and the Plot to Dismiss Gough Whitlam (2021, Scribe), reviewed for Eras Journal, vol. 23, no. 1 (2021), pp. 68—69.

Howard, John. A Sense of Balance (HarperCollins, 2022), reviewed for The Conversation, 31 August 2022, https://theconversation.com/john-howard-calls-for-a-sense-of-balance-but-can-he-help-the-liberal-party-find-it-189059.

Kelly, Sean. The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison (Black Inc, 2021), reviewed for The Conversation, 11 November 2021, https://theconversation.com/book-review-sean-kellys-the-game-a-portrait-of-scott-morrison-171489.

King, Richard. Here Be Monsters: Is Technology Reducing Our Humanity? (Monash University Publishing, 2023), reviewed for Australian Policy and History Network, 23 June 2023, https://aph.org.au/2023/06/book-review-here-be-monsters-is-technology-reducing-our-humanity/.

Lyons, Martyn. Dear Prime Minister: Letters to Robert Menzies, 1949—1966 (UNSW Press, 2021), reviewed for Journal of Australian Studies, vol. 46, no. 4 (2022), pp. 543—45.

McGowan, Cathy. Cathy Goes to Canberra: Doing Politics Differently (Monash University Publishing, 2020), reviewed for Australian Book Review (January-February 2021).

Megarrity, Lyndon. Robert Philp and the Politics of Development (Australian Scholarly, 2022), reviewed for Queensland Review, forthcoming.

Mullins, Patrick. Tiberius with a Telephone: The Life and Stories of William McMahon (Scribe, 2018), reviewed for Australian Journal of Biography and History, no. 2 (2019), pp. 187—92.

Munro, Doug. History Wars: The Peter Ryan – Manning Clark Controversy (ANU Press, 2021), reviewed for Australian Policy and History Network, 16 December 2021, https://aph.org.au/2021/12/book-review-history-wars/.

Rees, Peter. I Am Tim: Life, Politics and Beyond (Melbourne University Press, 2023), reviewed for Australian Book Review (November 2023).

Rudd, Kevin. Not for the Faint-hearted: A Personal Reflection on Life, Politics and Purpose, and The PM Years (Pan Macmillan, 2017-2018), reviewed for Australian Journal of Biography and History, no. 3 (2020), pp. 149—59.

Tickner, Robert. Ten Doors Down: The Story of an Extraordinary Adoption Reunion (Scribe, 2020), reviewed for Australian Book Review, April 2020.

Turnbull, Malcolm, A Bigger Picture (Hardie Grant, 2021 edition), Christopher Pyne, The Insider: The Scoops, the scandals and the serious business within the Canberra bubble (Hachette, 2020) and Joe Hockey with Leo Shanahan, Diplomatic: A Washington Memoir (HarperCollins, 2022), reviewed for Australian Journal of Biography and History, review essay, forthcoming.

Wallace, Chris. Political Lives: Prime Ministers and Their Biographers (UNSW Press, 2023), reviewed for Crikey, 1 February 2023, https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/02/01/political-lives-chris-wallace-review-biography/.

Wright, Claire. E. F. Australian Economic History: Transformations of an Interdisciplinary Field (ANU Press, 2022), reviewed for Labour History, no. 124 (May 2023), pp. 254—56.

Media

“Secrets and Scandals: Where Malcolm Turnbull’s memoir fits in the rich history of prime ministerial books”, The Conversation, 22 April 2020, https://theconversation.com/secrets-and-scandals-where-malcolm-turnbulls-memoir-fits-in-the-rich-history-of-prime-ministerial-books-136730.

Invited interview on prime ministerial memoirs in Australian history, ABC Radio Canberra, 26 April 2020.

“After the Waves: A tribute to a Pioneering Labor feminist”, Australian Book Review, November 2020, no. 426.

“Julia Banks’ New Book is part of a 50-year tradition of female MPs using memoirs to fight for equality”, The Conversation, 8 July 2021, https://theconversation.com/julia-banks-new-book-is-part-of-a-50-year-tradition-of-female-mps-using-memoirs-to-fight-for-equality-163888.

Invited interview on women’s political memoirs, ABC Radio Brisbane, 7 July 2021.

“A Shouty, Unedifying Spectacle and a Narrow Win for Albanese: 3 experts assess the second election debate”, The Conversation, 8 May 2022, https://theconversation.com/a-shouty-unedifying-spectacle-and-a-narrow-win-for-albanese-3-experts-assess-the-second-election-debate-182423.

“Even in the Political Afterlife, Morrison departs from the Norm”, The Conversation, 22 July 2022, https://theconversation.com/even-in-the-political-afterlife-morrison-departs-from-the-norm-187346.

With Michelle Staff, “120 Years of Women in Federal Politics”, VIDA Blog, 2 August 2022, https://www.auswhn.org.au/blog/women-federal-politics/.

Invited interview on John Howard’s political memoirs, 2CC Radio Canberra, 31 August 2022.

Invited interview on Australia in the 1990s, ABC Radio Melbourne, 5 September 2022.

“The ‘Forgettables’: 5 Australian Prime Ministers you may not know much about’, The Conversation, 4 January 2023, https://theconversation.com/the-forgettables-5-australian-prime-ministers-you-may-not-know-much-about-196360.

With Frank Bongiorno and Michelle Arrow. “Australia’s Cultural Institutions are Especially Vulnerable to Efficiency Dividends: Looking back at 35 years of cuts”, The Conversation, 29 March 2023, https://theconversation.com/australias-cultural-institutions-are-especially-vulnerable-to-efficiency-dividends-looking-back-at-35-years-of-cuts-202727.

“Not Neglecting, Strangling: A Short History of a Most Inefficient Policy”, Australian Policy and History Network, 19 April 2023, https://aph.org.au/2023/04/not-neglecting-strangling-a-short-history-of-a-most-inefficient-policy/.

“Hell Hath no Fury Like a Former PM – But it wasn’t always so”, The Conversation, 27 April 2023,https://theconversation.com/hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-former-pm-but-it-wasnt-always-so-204196.

“John Farnham: Finding the Voice”, Australian Book Review, 5 June 2023, [Arts online].

“Between Nostalgia and Amnesia: The Legacy of Julia Gillard as PM, 10 Years after her ousting”, The Conversation, 26 June 2023, https://theconversation.com/between-nostalgia-and-amnesia-the-legacy-of-julia-gillard-as-pm-10-years-after-her-ousting-208283.

Invited interview on Australia in the 1980s, ABC Radio National, Nightlife, 7 September 2023.

“Storm Clouds Ahead: Scandals that have Rocked Australian Politics”, The Conversation, 4 January 2024, https://theconversation.com/storm-clouds-ahead-scandals-that-have-rocked-australian-politics-216825.