Troy Bramston

The definitive full-life biography of Australia's 23rd prime minister; the only one that Hawke cooperated with after exiting the prime ministership. This unprecedented biography of Hawke includes an exclusive series of interviews with him—the last that he gave—as well as unfiltered access to his extensive trove of personal papers. It features new interviews with more than 100 people who knew...

A revelatory biography of Australia's longest-serving prime minister. Robert Menzies claimed the prime ministership in 1939 and led the nation during the early years of the war, but resigned two years later when he lost the confidence of his party. His political career seemed over, and yet he staged one of the great comebacks to forge a new political party...

Drawing on around 15 hours of new interviews with Keating, coupled with access to his extensive personal files, this book tells the story of a political warrior's rise to power. From the outer suburbs of Sydney through Young Labor and into parliament at just 25 years of age, Keating served as a minister in the last days of the Whitlam...

A commanding biography of one of Australia's greatest and most visionary prime ministers by an acclaimed political journalist and author. There has been no one like Gough Whitlam in public life - a charismatic, inspirational and visionary leader who ushered in a reform revolution to modernise Australia, which endures to this day. But Whitlam's immense self-belief, relentless determination, misjudgements and...

A commanding biography of one of Australia's greatest and most visionary prime ministers by an acclaimed political journalist and author. Gough Whitlam: charismatic, inspirational, a trailblazer. There has been no one like him in our nation's public life—a dynamic and visionary leader determined to modernise Australia, who ushered in a new era and left a lasting legacy. But Whitlam's immense...

A revelatory biography of Australia's longest-serving prime minister. Robert Menzies: The Art of Politics claims the prime ministership in 1939 and led the nation during the early years of the war, but resigned two years later when he lost the confidence of his party. His political career seemed over, and yet he staged one of the great comebacks to forge...