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Frank Bongiorno

Frank Bongiorno teaches history at the Australian National University. His latest book is Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia (La Trobe University Press/Black Inc., 2022).

Essays & reportage Frank Bongiorno 26 September 2019 Former Labor national secretary David Combe, who died this week, found himself in the middle of a maelstrom in March 1983, just as his party was taking government
National affairs Frank Bongiorno 20 May 2019 Labor’s next leader faces the job of rebuilding the party in a low-growth world National affairs Frank Bongiorno 23 April 2019 Election 2019 | Twitter has changed the landscape of political reporting, and there’s no going back National affairs Frank Bongiorno 1 January 2019 Cabinet Papers 1996–97 | Having inherited the inquiry into the removal of Indigenous children, the Howard government was able to extend its empathy only so far From the archive Frank Bongiorno 28 November 2018 A third win for Labor under Bob Hawke broke the postwar pattern forever
From the archive Frank Bongiorno 22 October 2018 University-educated Barnaby Joyce takes on the urban elite
National affairs Frank Bongiorno 27 July 2018 Australia’s last great media upheaval gave Rupert Murdoch the green light to dominate the press National affairs Frank Bongiorno 26 June 2018 Did the Ramsay Centre throw away its best chance by pushing ANU too far? Books & arts Frank Bongiorno 8 March 2018 Books | Has Clive Hamilton written what one critic called a “McCarthyist manifesto”? Books & arts Frank Bongiorno 11 February 2018 Books | Centre-left parties are struggling everywhere. Can they adapt?
Books & arts Frank Bongiorno 5 January 2018 Books | Beyond the headlines it generated, Kevin Rudd’s memoir helps explain why he lost the prime ministership
Books & arts Frank Bongiorno 25 November 2017 A new book takes a nuanced look at ageing gay men and the world they live in National affairs Frank Bongiorno 19 November 2017 Perhaps the most interesting results of the marriage-equality survey were to be seen outside the eastern capitals Books & arts Frank Bongiorno 10 October 2017 What will Sam Dastyari do if he’s given a second chance? His autobiography only hints at an answer National affairs Frank Bongiorno 4 September 2017 Can we hold more than one idea in our heads at the same time?
Summer season Frank Bongiorno 10 August 2017 Birth and luck clearly play an enormous role in our lives. So why does the idea of a meritocracy maintain its grip?
National affairs Frank Bongiorno 28 June 2016 Despite the Brexit shock and a discouraging shift in the polls, Bill Shorten performed capably at today’s Press Club lunch Books & arts Frank Bongiorno 23 May 2016 Books | He’s level-headed, dogged and hard-working, writes Frank Bongiorno. And maybe that’s enough, whether Labor wins or not Essays & reportage Frank Bongiorno 10 November 2015 The rise of the New Right helped keep Labor in office for over a decade, writes Frank Bongiorno in this extract from his new book National affairs Frank Bongiorno 21 September 2015 Malcolm Turnbull’s diverse career brings new qualities to the prime ministership, writes Frank Bongiorno. But he will need to be careful his larger-than-life…
Books & arts Frank Bongiorno 19 September 2014 Historian John Rickard recalls an Australia in which private lives occasionally teetered on the edge of scandal
Books & arts Frank Bongiorno 9 September 2014 Was the Gillard government more competent than its critics claimed? Frank Bongiorno reviews a new appraisal National affairs Frank Bongiorno 19 February 2014 An attack on the unions won’t necessarily have the expected political impact Essays & reportage Frank Bongiorno 16 December 2013 The cyclones of the late 1960s and early 1970s didn’t shape the Whitlam government as much as gentler breezes of the 1950s and early 1960s Books & arts Frank Bongiorno 15 November 2013 Three biographies reveal twentieth-century Australians in the thick of things, writes Frank Bongiorno
National affairs Frank Bongiorno 10 October 2013 The Labor leadership contest might have annoyed some factional warlords, but it’s helped the party to avoid messy post-election recriminations, writes Frank Bongiorno
Books & arts Frank Bongiorno 2 September 2013 It’s time for harder thinking about Labor’s strengths and weaknesses, says Frank Bongiorno National affairs Frank Bongiorno 27 June 2013 The leadership vote only underlines the fact that the Labor Party is more or less broken, writes Frank Bongiorno Books & arts Frank Bongiorno 23 May 2013 Frank Bongiorno reviews Nick Cater’s The Lucky Culture Books & arts Frank Bongiorno 9 May 2013 Tim Rowse’s new book shows the strengths of an evidence-based approach to Indigenous policy, writes Frank Bongiorno