Contributors

Geoffrey Blainey is one of Australia’s best know historians and commentators.

Russell Cope is a former New South Wales Parliamentary Librarian.

John Hirst teaches history at La Trobe University, and is Chair of the Commonwealth Government’s Civic Education Group.

Senator the Hon Margaret Reid is a Liberal Party senator for the ACT, and President of the Senate.

Helen Irving is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney.

Marian Sawer is Head of the Political Science Program in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University.

Marian Simms is a Reader in Political Science at the Australian National University.

Journalist and historian Gavin Souter is the author of a standard history of the Australian Parliament, Acts of Parliament (1988).