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Dreamers and schemers and the election that changed us

  • Written by Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
Dreamers and schemers and the election that changed usRick Rycroft/AAP

This is an edited extract from Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia by Frank Bongiorno, La Trobe University Press, 2022.


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