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Mark Kenny, Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University

Stripped bare and born afresh: how biographies play a role in the building and rebuilding of political careers

After decades covering federal politics in Canberra, my embarrassment at not knowing Warren Denning’s Caucus Crisis: The Rise and Fall of the Scullin Government (1937) was partly assuaged when an older colleague revealed the same.

Written by a lion of early political reporting in Canberra, it was the first of what would become a line of political books to emerge from the federal parliamentary press gallery.


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