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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).

Frank Bongiorno 15 October 2009 The British debate over breastfeeding in public reveals a puzzling double standard, writes Frank Bongiorno in London
Frank Bongiorno 4 September 2009 The United States’ acrimonious healthcare debate is having almost as much impact across the Atlantic, where the National Health Service has become a rallying point for both… Frank Bongiorno 17 July 2009 Despite globalisation, most of us can’t treat where we live as a kind of airport transit lounge, writes Frank Bongiorno Frank Bongiorno 4 June 2009 The target of the public’s vengeance for the downturn has shifted from bankers to MPs Frank Bongiorno 18 May 2009 Everyone seems to have some sort of camera these days, as the British Police are discovering to their cost, writes Frank Bongiorno
Frank Bongiorno 3 April 2009 Attitudes to people with disabilities are changing in Britain, but the progress is uneven, writes Frank Bongiorno in London
Frank Bongiorno 4 March 2009 Incumbency provides great electoral and political advantages to governments, but it can also be a fatal burden, writes Frank Bongiorno in London Frank Bongiorno 1 February 2009 Despite the financial crisis, there’s no mood of national introspection in Britain, writes Frank Bongiorno Frank Bongiorno 2 January 2009 Two Australias exist side by side in the British media, writes Frank Bongiorno Frank Bongiorno 25 November 2008 Britain’s reaction to Obama’s win says a lot about the fears and hopes of America’s ally, writes Frank Bongiorno in London
Frank Bongiorno 22 October 2008 Although Gordon Brown presided over a vast expansion in financial risk, he could emerge stronger from the crisis, writes Frank Bongiorno in London