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Wed Jan 4

5 Australian prime ministers you may not know much about

Written by Joshua Black, PhD Candidate, School of History, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University

The idea of a “forgotten prime minister” may seem laughable. For Australian historians, it is the governed rather than the governors who need rescuing “from the enormous condescension of posterity” as the English historian E. P. Thompson famously put it.

Our First Nations histories especially...

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