Frank Bongiorno
Trendyville: The Battle for Australia's inner cities by Renate Howe, David Nichols, and Graeme Davison
by Frank Bongiorno •
The Bush: Travels in the heart of Australia by Don Watson
by Frank Bongiorno •
Dreaming Too Loud: Reflections on a Race Apart by Geoffrey Robertson
by Frank Bongiorno •
Dancing with Empty Pockets: Australia's Bohemians since 1860 by Tony Moore
by Frank Bongiorno •
The Sex Lives of Australians: A History by Frank Bongiorno
by Dennis Altman •
Heroes & Villains by Nick Dyrenfurth & A Little History of the Australian Labor Party by Nick Dyrenfurth and Frank Bongiorno
by Stuart Macintyre •
Yes, Premier: Labor leadership in Australia's states and territories edited by John Wanna and Paul Williams
by Frank Bongiorno •
So Monstrous a Travesty: Chris Watson and the world's first national labour government by Ross McMullin
by Frank Bongiorno •
The puzzle of PhDs
Dear Editor,
It’s pretty clear that historians can’t win, especially if they have the audacity to use a doctoral thesis as the basis for a book. As I read Aviva Tuffield’s puzzling review (ABR, December 2003/January 2004) of Clare Wright’s Beyond the Ladies Lounge, and Wright’s understandably puzzled response (ABR, February 2004), I was reminded of a debate that occurred over several issues of ABR in 2002, which spawned plenty of silly generalisations about the quality of writing in PhD theses, but not much else.
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