Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Chris Wallace on Biography as an Instrument of Image Making in National Politics; and Ross Walker’s Life Story of Harold Holt
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'Chris Wallace has written an engrossing and original study about the role of biography in image making in Australian national politics. In a story now well circulated, Wallace landed on the topic after spiking her biography of Julia Gillard because of an apprehension that the prime minister’s numerous enemies, both within and outside her government, would ‘cherrypick’ (xi) the book for ammunition to hurl at Gillard. From this, Wallace was spurred to ask questions about the practice of contemporary political biography—those published while leaders were ascending to power or while in office—and the function they serve as an instrument of ‘political intervention’.' (Introduction)   

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    y separately published work icon History Australia vol. 20 no. 3 2023 26785688 2023 periodical issue

    'Like all good things, this issue begins and ends in Victoria. Specifically, it opens with a research article by Robert Tyler on the Welsh in Ballarat in the second half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the Eisteddfod, Tyler explores the contours of the small but important community of Welsh people in gold-rush Victoria. He discusses the gains and losses of the predominately working-class Eisteddfod becoming a popular festival for all comers in less than 30 years. He conjures eloquently a time when ‘Gymraeg a siaradir, a ysgrifenir, a bregethir, ac a genir yno, a rhoddir cerddoriaeth Gymreig [Welsh is spoken, written, preached and sung, and Welsh music is written]’.' (Kate Fullagar, Jessica Lake, Benjamin Mountford & Ellen Warne : Editorial introduction)

    2023
    pg. 462-464
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