Dr Philip Ayres
BA PhD Adelaide FRHistS, FAHA
Philip Ayres has taught at Monash University, the University
of Adelaide and in America as Visiting Professor at Vassar
College and Boston University. He was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Historical Society (London) in 1989 and a Fellow of
the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1999. Philip Ayres
has published biographies of a number of major Australian civic
figures including Owen Dixon (Carlton, Vic., Miegunyah Press,
2003), Douglas Mawson (Carlton South, Vic., Miegunyah Press,
1999) and Malcolm Fraser (Heinemann, Melbourne, 1987). |
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John Chesterman is a lecturer in the School of Political Science
at the University of Melbourne. His research interests include:
citizenship, indigenous political and legal affairs, Australian
politics and the Australian legal system. His most recent book
is Civil Rights: how indigenous Australians won formal equality,
St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 2005. |
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Brian Costar is Professor of Victorian Parliamentary Democracy
at the Institute for Social Research,
Swinburne University of Technology. His principal areas of research
are Australian political parties, state and federal parliamentary
politics and Australian electoral history. He is a frequent commentator
on state and federal politics in the media and has written widely
on contemporary political issues. His current research focuses
on the role of small parties and independents in Australian parliaments
and the political history of Victoria. His most recent book is The
great Labor schism: a retrospective (co-editor and contributor),
Carlton North, Vic.: Scribe, 2005. |
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Petro Georgiou was a Senior Advisor to Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser from 1975-79. He has held a number of important positions in the Liberal Party of Australia including Director, Liberal Policy Unit (1985-89) and State Director, Liberal Party (Vic.) (1989-94). He has also acted as Secretary, Ethnic Television Review Panel (1979-80) and Director, Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs 1980-85. Petro Georgiou is currently the Federal Member for Kooyong (Victoria) in the House of Representatives. He was first elected at a by-election in 1994 and was re-elected in 1996, 1998, 2001 and 2004.
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David Kemp was a Senior Advisor to Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser
from November 1975 until 1976 and Director of the Private Office
of the Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser in 1981. He was a Senior
Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University
of Melbourne from 1975 until 1979, and a Professor of Politics
at Monash University from 1979 until becoming a Member of Parliament.
He is currently a Fellow at the Australia
and New Zealand School of Government. David Kemp was, with
DM White, co-editor of Malcolm Fraser on Australia,
Melbourne: Hill of Content, 1986, a collection of extracts from
Malcolm Fraser’s speeches. |
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Tim McCormack is the Foundation Australian Red Cross Professor
of International Humanitarian Law at the University of Melbourne.
He is also the Foundation Director of the Asia-Pacific
Centre for Military Law, a collaborative training and research
venture between Melbourne Law School and the Australian Defence
Force Legal Service. He has special research interests in the
fields of international humanitarian law, international criminal
law, arms control and disarmament, and international law and
the use of force. |
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Patrick Weller is the Director of the Centre
for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University.
He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia.
His research interests include executive government; politics
and policy making in central governments in Westminster systems;
Australian politics and international civil servants. He is
the author of many books including Malcolm Fraser, PM:
A Study in Prime Ministerial Power in Australia, Ringwood,
Vic.: Penguin, 1989. His most recent book (co-edited with Haig
Patapan and John Wanna) is Westminster legacies: democracy
and responsible government in Asia and the Pacific, Sydney:
University of New South Wales Press, 2005.
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