Chris Wallace

Shortlisted, 2023 NSW Premier's History Awards, Australian History Prize Longlisted, 2023 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award Longlisted, The 2023 Australian Political Book of the Year Award Longlisted, 2023 Walkley Book Awards Political Lives is an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics. What was the story behind Bob Hawke's famed biography? Why does Paul Keating think...

The 2019 Australian election produced a surprise result showing, not for the first time, that every election is there for the winning, including the next one. Labor's surprise loss in 2019, like the Liberal and National parties' defeat in the so-called 'unloseable' 1993 election, showed how careful attention to basic political craft can yield big dividends, and how inattention to...