Ken Inglis (1929–2017) was Emeritus Professor of History at the Australian National University and an Honorary Professor in the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University. He had been Vice-Chancellor of the University of Papua New Guinea and Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University. His books include The Stuart Case, This is the ABC, Whose ABC? and Sacred Places. Peter Browne pays tribute to him here.
From the archive
Hot night at Town Hall
Ken Inglis
28 July 2025
What happened when the satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer, who died on Saturday at ninety-seven, came to puritanical Adelaide in 1960?
Essays & reportage
Opening the windows in a stuffy room
Ken Inglis
26 September 2018
The influential fortnightly magazine Nation was launched in Sydney sixty years ago today. In this essay first published in 1989, one of its best-known contributors…
Essays & reportage
Letters from a pilgrimage
Ken Inglis
24 April 2015
In April 1965 Ken Inglis travelled to Gallipoli with 300 Anzac pilgrims and filed seven reports along the way for the Canberra Times. Here he introduces two of those despatches
Essays & reportage
Enter the Australian
Ken Inglis
14 July 2009
Rupert Murdoch’s national daily burst into print on 15 July 1964. Ken Inglis assessed the new paper later that month for Nation magazine
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