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Frank Bongiorno

Frank Bongiorno is inaugural director of the Vice-Chancellor’s Centre of Public Ideas and Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas at the University of Canberra. His latest book is Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia (La Trobe University Press/Black Inc., 2022).

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
National affairs Frank Bongiorno 5 February 2013 Julia Gillard’s press club speech gave an insight into how Labor sees itself governing an anxious country in uncertain times, writes Frank Bongiorno
From the archive Frank Bongiorno 19 December 2012 What happened when journalist Peter Coleman assembled a star-studded group of writers in 1962 to rethink the way intellectuals viewed Australia? Books & arts Frank Bongiorno 8 October 2012 A sympathetic biography of Gough Whitlam also recognises its subject’s shortcomings National affairs Frank Bongiorno 14 August 2012 This independent MP rose from thirty-year-old Armidale councillor to NSW parliamentary speaker. Now he plans to take on Tony Windsor for the Nationals. Frank … Essays & reportage Frank Bongiorno 4 July 2012 Born to a free-thinking family in Melbourne around 1860, William Chidley became an energetic campaigner with some surprisingly respectable supporters, writes Frank …
Essays & reportage Frank Bongiorno 7 June 2012 Frank Bongiorno traces the debate about blackness from Arthur Upfield to Andrew Bolt
Books & arts Frank Bongiorno 11 April 2012 The language of class distinctions tells us a lot about Britain and Australia, writes Frank Bongiorno Frank Bongiorno 9 April 2012 The Iron Lady casts a long shadow, as David Cameron is finding in the lead-up to the next British election, writes Frank Bongiorno in London National affairs Frank Bongiorno 7 December 2011 The Labor conference exposed the party’s – and the government’s – weaknesses, writes Frank Bongiorno Books & arts Frank Bongiorno 18 November 2011 Labor’s search for meaning needs to go beyond the failures of the post-1996 party, writes Frank Bongiorno
National affairs Frank Bongiorno 20 September 2011 Sixty years ago, H.V. Evatt successfully resisted strong public support for draconian anti-communist legislation, writes Frank Bongiorno. Is there a lesson for Labor in 2011?
National affairs Frank Bongiorno 21 August 2011 On the anniversary of the 2010 Australian election, Frank Bongiorno – just back from London – contrasts the challenges facing Britain and Australia Frank Bongiorno 10 August 2011 Despite defeating his brother in a long and hard-fought leadership campaign, it’s still not clear what British Labour leader Ed Miliband stands for, writes Frank Bongiorno Frank Bongiorno 26 July 2011 Frank Bongiorno looks at the growing influence of Labour peer Maurice Glasman on the British opposition party Frank Bongiorno 21 July 2011 Is “merit” the new demarcation line in British society, asks Frank Bongiorno in London
Frank Bongiorno 5 June 2011 Another history war under another conservative government. Frank Bongiorno reports from London
Frank Bongiorno 19 April 2011 Why did some British academics and universities get so close to Colonel Gaddafi, asks Frank Bongiorno in London Frank Bongiorno 28 March 2011 In London Frank Bongiorno looks at why Lionel Logue is portrayed as an Aussie larrikin in The King’s Speech Frank Bongiorno 2 February 2011 The next casualties of Britain’s phone-hacking controversy could come from the media, politics or the police. But whoever falls next, it probably won’t be good news… Frank Bongiorno 14 December 2010 The protests in Britain highlight how much the Liberal Democrats have compromised to share power, writes Frank Bongiorno in London. And where does that leave the new…
Frank Bongiorno 4 November 2010 We’re all in this together, the British chancellor told the nation as he announced sweeping cuts in spending. Britons aren’t up in arms yet, writes Frank …
Frank Bongiorno 29 September 2010 In London, Frank Bongiorno ponders the life of a highly productive expatriate who eventually returned to Australia, and those who have followed him International Frank Bongiorno 11 August 2010 In Australia, Julia Gillard replaced Kevin Rudd almost overnight. In Britain, the leadership transition is taking quite a lot longer Frank Bongiorno 23 June 2010 The new British government began slashing spending this week. Meanwhile, Labour is left with the problem of defining what it stands for, writes Frank Bongiorno Frank Bongiorno 10 May 2010 Britain will almost certainly face another election sooner rather than later, writes Frank Bongiorno in London