Stuart Macintyre

He has written extensively on aspects of Australian labour history, political history and intellectual history. Among his publications are A Colonial Liberalism (1991), The Reds (1998) and The Concise History of Australia (1999, since translated into several foreign-language editions. His history of the social sciences in Australia, The Poor Relation, was published by Melbourne University Press in 2010. In Winners and Losers (1986) he explored the theme of social justice in Australian history, and he is currently working on a history of post-war reconstruction.