BOOK LAUNCH
Chris Wallace at MUSE
3—4pm Sunday 26 March
Muse, East Hotel, Kingston Canberra ACT
Meet author Chris Wallace in conversation with Tom McIlroy.
Tickets: $10 (entry only) // $45 (includes a discounted copy of the book RRP $39.99)
“For years there has been no shrewder or sharper commentator on Canberra politics than Chris Wallace. In this compelling, typically acute and unique study she contrives to illuminate all at once — and often as if for the first time — both the character of Australia’s prime ministers and the way Australian political history has been made.”
What was the story behind Bob Hawke’s famed biography? Why does Paul Keating think biographies of serving politicians are ‘like Polaroids of a busy life’ while John Howard considers them a big mistake? Where is the ‘missing’ Menzies biography? Why are our early prime ministers largely absent from historical memory? Chris Wallace writes Australian political history anew through this account of prime ministers, their biographies and their biographers. Lively and astute, the book takes us into their motivations and relationships, some well-known and some hidden, and in doing so shows us Australian politics in a fresh light.
Political Lives is an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics.
Political historian Dr Chris Wallace is a professor at the Faculty of Business Government and Law, University of Canberra. Wallace was formerly a longstanding member of the Canberra Press Gallery, and her political analysis and commentary currently appears in Nikkei Asia, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Saturday Paper and The Conversation.
Tom McIlroy is a political reporter with The Australian Financial Review, based at Parliament House. He covers federal politics, taxation, the arts and the Voice to Parliament debate and is a regular commentator on national affairs. Tom has written for newspapers including The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Canberra Times.
Venue
Muse, East Hotel
69 Canberra Ave, Kingston ACT
T: (02) 6178 0024