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Personal Chair in Politics, La Trobe University

Professor Robert Manne was educated at the Universities of Melbourne and Oxford. He is now Emeritus Professor and Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at La Trobe University, where he also is Convenor of The Ideas & Society Program. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Manne has written or edited twenty books including The Petrov Affair: Politics and Espionage; Left, Right, Left; Political Essays-1977-2005; and most recently, Making Trouble: Essays against the New Australian Complacency and the Quarterly Essay, “Bad News: Murdoch’s Australian and the Shaping of the Nation”. His books and essays have won various awards. Between 1987 and 2004 he was a columnist on public affairs for both the Murdoch Press and Fairfax, and also a regular commentator on ABC Radio. He is a frequent contributor to The Monthly. In 2005 he was voted Australia’s leading public intellectual in a survey conducted by The Sydney Morning Herald.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University