Associate Professor of History , UNSW
David Lee is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Canberra. He is an Australian historian with diverse interests in Australian political and constitutional history, the history of foreign, defence and trade policy and economic history, including the history of Australian mining. He is the author inter alia of Stanley Melbourne Bruce: Australian Internationalist, London, 2010 and The Second Rush: Mining and the transformation of Australia, Connor Court, 2016.
Issues that swung elections: Petrol shortages and the dawn of the Menzies era
May 02, 2019 17:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
With taxes and health care emerging as key issues in the upcoming federal election, were running a series this week looking at the main issues that swung elections in the past, from agricultural workers wages to the...
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