Graeme Davison is Emeritus Professor of History at Monash University. His books include The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne, The Unforgiving Minute: How Australia Learned to Tell the Time, Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities and Lost Relations: Fortunes of My Family in Australia’s Golden Age.
Essays & reportage
Watching a brilliant thinker stretching his mind
Graeme Davison
11 October 2018
Why should we read Hugh Stretton in the twenty-first century?
Books & arts
The year of living anxiously
Graeme Davison
26 June 2018
Phillipa McGuinness chronicles a year when time sped up
Essays & reportage
The war on sprawl
Graeme Davison
31 August 2016
Ever since William Thackeray satirised the London suburb of Clapham in 1855, critics and supporters of the suburbs have been battling it out, writes Graeme Davison
Essays & reportage
Distance and destiny
Graeme Davison
28 July 2016
Published fifty years ago, The Tyranny of Distance changed the way we see Australia, writes Graeme Davison
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