Philip Ayres

One life, many roles – soldier, brilliant barrister, High Court judge, Governor-General, Australian diplomat, mediator in Northern Ireland, member of the first war crimes tribunal since Nuremberg and Tokyo, head of UN and Commonwealth missions to crisis zones from Cambodia to Burma to Bangladesh. Sir Ninian Stephen is the recipient of five knighthoods and the most honoured Australian in history....

Prince of the Church is the first biography of Cardinal Moran. Moran and his conflict-ridden worlds come alive as Philip Ayres exploits sixty-one years of unpublished diaries. He reveals a man of contradictions—self-contained, private, hard of access, yet forceful and determined in pursuit of his ends; pious and devout, yet proud, ambitious, and ruthless with his enemies. As the first...