Frank Bongiorno - Elections Matter: Ten Federal Elections that Shaped Australia

Elections Matter

Ten Federal Elections that Shaped Australia

EDITED BY BENJAMIN T. JONES, FRANK BONGIORNO AND JOHN UHR

Elections Matter: Ten Federal Elections that Shaped Australia

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CONTENTS

Benjamin T. Jones

Marian Simms

John Uhr

Alex Millmow

Benjamin T. Jones

Bridget Brooklyn

Richard Reid

Frank Bongiorno

Jill Sheppard

Marija Taflaga

Isobelle Barrett Meyering

Benjamin T. Jones

Michael Maley

ABBREVIATIONS

ACT Australian Capital Territory

ACTU Australian Council of Trade Unions

AD Australian Democrats

ALA Australian Liberal Association

ALP Australian Labor Party

ALPNC Australian Labor Party Non-Communist

ANA Australian Natives Association

ANU Australian National University

CP Country Party

FT Free Trade Party

NAA National Archives of Australia

NLA National Library of Australia

NSW New South Wales

SA South Australia

UAP United Australia Party

UWS University of Western Australia

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES

Isobelle Barrett Meyering is a Research Fellow at Macquarie University. She works on the history of Australian feminism, gender politics and childrens rights. Isobelle completed her PhD at UNSW Australia in 2017 and previously worked as a researcher at the Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse from 2009 to 2013. She has also been a summer scholar at the Australian Museum of Democracy at Old Parliament House.

Frank Bongiorno is an award-winning author and professor of history at the Australian National University. His books include The Peoples Party: Victorian Labor and the Radical Tradition 18751914 (1996), The Sex Lives of Australians: A History (2012) and The Eighties: The Decade that Transformed Australia (2015).

Bridget Brooklyn is a lecturer in Australian history and the history of feminism in the History and Political Thought discipline of the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University. Her research interests are: Australian history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Australian imperial loyalty, eugenics and feminism. She is currently researching the life and work of conservative political activist and eugenicist Dr Mary Booth.

Benjamin Jones is a member of the School of History at the Australian National University. He is a historian specialising in republicanism and nationalism, Australian social and political history, public memory, and secularisation. His books include: This Time: Australias Republican Past and Future (2018), Atheism for Christians (2016), Republicanism and Responsible Government (2014), and Project Republic (2013).

Michael Maley spent more than 30 years as an election administrator before retiring in 2012 from the position of Special Adviser, Electoral Reform and International Services, Australian Electoral Commission (AEC). He has written and lectured extensively on elections and electoral administration, co-authored the revised edition of the International IDEA Handbook on Electoral Management Design, and originated the concept for the BRIDGE electoral administrators course which has now been delivered in over 100 countries. He was awarded the Australian Public Service Medal in 2001, and the Joe C. Baxter Award of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems in 2015.

Alex Millmow is an associate professor in economics at Federation Business School, Federation University. His research interests include the economics of Joan Robinson, the making of the Australian economic profession and the role of economic ideas in steering public policy. Alexs latest work is A History of Australasian Economic Thought (2018). He is currently writing a biography of the Anglo-Australian economist Colin Clark. He is the current President of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia (HETSA), a member of the Editorial Board of Australian Universities Review and is a council member of the Victorian Branch of the Economic Society of Australia.

Richard Reid is a researcher in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University, where he lectures in British politics. He has published articles in the Australian Journal of Public Administration, Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Administration, Parliamentary Affairs, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, and British Politics. He is currently Associate Editor of International Political Science Review and is a teaching fellow at the Australian Command and Staff College, Canberra. His interests are Australian and British political and military history, and contemporary Australian and British politics.

Marian Simms holds an adjunct chair at the University of Canberra and has held senior roles at the Australian Research Council, Deakin University, the University of Otago, and the Australian National University. Marian is a political scientist who has published widely on Australian and comparative politics and has edited books for the Centenary of Federation and the Centenary of Commonwealth Equal Franchise legislation. She served as editor of Politics (1988-90) and the Australian Journal of Political Science (2011-16). She was awarded a centenary medal in 2003.

Jill Sheppard is a lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University. Her research interests are elections and voting, political participation, and public opinion, particularly in Australia but also internationally. She is an investigator on several major survey studies of Australian public opinion and behaviour.

Marija Taflaga is an early career researcher at the Australian National University. Her major research interests are political parties and particularly the Liberal Party of Australia. Her research interests also include comparative Westminster parliaments and oppositions, the career paths of political elites, and Australian political history. Marija has undertaken research fellowships at the Australian Parliamentary Library and the Australian Museum of Democracy, Old Parliament House. She has also worked in the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery as a researcher at