Historian Chris Wallace, who currently holds a professorship at the Faculty of Business, Government and Law at the University of Canberra, rightly argues that writing biographies of prime ministers is a unique form of political intervention.
Formerly a long-standing member of the Canberra press gallery, Ms Wallace, who was writing a biography of then prime minister Julia Gillard, did something unusual.
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Ross Fitzgerald is Emeritus Professor of History and Politics at Griffith University. His most recent publications are the co-authored satire, ‘The Lowest Depths’, set in Vladimir Putrid’s Russia; and a memoir ‘Fifty Years Sober’. (Hybrid)
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