Being Cabinet Historian : A Reflection single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Being Cabinet Historian : A Reflection
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'In April 2018, I was invited to submit an expression of interest for the position of visiting Cabinet historian to the National Archives of Australia (NAA). I was informed that the Archives had consulted the Australian Historical Association and my name had been ‘highly recommended’. I was quietly thrilled at the invitation. As a biographer and political historian, my own research interests in recent years had meshed into a focus on leadership and executive government. Naturally, I had always taken a keen interest in the annual New Year’s Day release of the Cabinet records, poring over the newspaper reports. Now I was being offered the opportunity to be an integral part of that process, to gain a privileged window into the engine room of national government. I duly submitted an expression of interest and by early May had been formally offered the position. I accepted the offer with enthusiasm.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon History Australia vol. 17 no. 4 2020 21225819 2020 periodical issue

    'We are delighted to bring you our first special issue in over a year, guest-edited by two close friends of the journal. Former book reviews editor Agnieszka Sobocinska (2019–2020) and former editor Melanie Oppenheimer (2016–2018) have worked on this collection since presenting together at a symposium called ‘Cultures and Histories of Humanitarianism and International Development’ at Monash University in 2019. They have selected and edited some of the voices from that event in order to offer here a cohesive anthology of recent trends and topics in the history of foreign aid.' (Kate Fullagar, Michelle Arrow and Leigh Boucher, From the Editors, Introduction)

    2020
    pg. 747-756
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