Ken Haley is a Melbourne-based writer. He was a Walkley Award–winning journalist with the Sunday Age and is the author of three books on long-distance travel: Emails from the Edge, Europe @ 2.4 km/h and The One That Got Away: Travelling in the Time of Covid.
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Empire’s end
Ken Haley
23 May 2025
Old ties were broken forever by the time the second world war drew to a close
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Mary wrote crime; George committed it
Ken Haley
27 February 2025
A dual biography probes the underbelly of nineteenth-century Melbourne
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What have the Romans done for us?
Ken Haley
24 November 2024
A new history of the original superpower
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The legendary King O’Malley
Ken Haley
10 April 2024
“Father of the Commonwealth Bank,” promoter of the national capital, North American émigré — King O’Malley created his own history
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The crocodile and the wafer
Ken Haley
17 December 2018
Books | The interaction of traditional beliefs and Catholicism has helped shape Timor-Leste since the 1500s
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Labor’s golden four
Ken Haley
21 August 2015
Books | Colour, movement and analysis – Joel Deane delivers all three in his account of Labor’s late nineties comeback in Victoria, writes Ken Haley
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Making the cut
Ken Haley
27 November 2014
Ken Haley finds much to like in this tribute to some of the greats of Australian journalism
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The senator unplugged
Ken Haley
31 October 2014
As much catharsis as history, Gareth Evans’s diaries are a compelling insider account, writes Ken Haley
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The best truths
Ken Haley
24 September 2014
For journalists, the internet has actually lifted the ethical bar, writes Ken Haley
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