Frank Bongiorno

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Australia’s political history is full of gaffes. Here are some of the best (or worst)

Jan 20, 2025 | theaustraliatoday.com.au | Frank Bongiorno

By Frank BongiornoThe Oxford English Dictionary defines a gaffe as a “blunder, an instance of clumsy stupidity, a ‘faux pas’.” It evokes a sense of triviality rather than high seriousness. If one’s clumsiness results in the outbreak of war, it would not usually be considered a mere gaffe. Nor are gaffes ordinarily seen to result from the unworthy impulses of spite or cruelty. No one would call Robodebt a gaffe. It was far worse than that.
Australia’s political history is full of gaffes

Jan 19, 2025 | thenewdaily.com.au | Frank Bongiorno

Nor are gaffes ordinarily seen to result from the unworthy impulses of spite or cruelty. No one would call Robodebt a gaffe. It was far worse than that. Gaffes normally imply absentmindedness rather than deliberation. So, what are the gaffes that have been most significant in Australian political history? What are the blunders that have mattered? The Commonwealth of Australia was founded on a blunder.
'I don't hold a hose, mate': Australia's political history is full of gaffes

Jan 7, 2025 | canberratimes.com.au | Frank Bongiorno

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a gaffe as a "blunder, an instance of clumsy stupidity, a 'faux pas'." It evokes a sense of triviality rather than high seriousness. If one's clumsiness results in the outbreak of war, it would not usually be considered a mere gaffe. Subscribe now for unlimited access.
Australia’s political history is full of gaffes. Here are some of the best (or worst)

Jan 6, 2025 | msn.com | Frank Bongiorno

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Levelling up the Boris Johnson story

Dec 4, 2024 | insidestory.org.au | Joshua Black |Frank Bongiorno

Before he resigned from the House of Commons in 2023, Boris Johnson updated his register of parliamentary interests to reveal that he had received an advance of £510,000 (a shade over A$1 million) for a memoir to be published by HarperCollins. Now released with the bold title Unleashed, the book appears not to be performing as well as intended in retail terms. But it has done one thing: it has assured its author a new round of publicity, to which he has taken keenly.
Making their political mark • Frank Bongiorno

Nov 18, 2024 | insidestory.org.au | Frank Bongiorno

This is an edited and updated version of this year’s History Council of New South Wales Annual History Lecture, delivered by Frank Bongiorno at the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney in September. I’m going to begin with a fictional history, a thought experiment. Perhaps I should call it a “what if?” or counterfactual history to give it the gloss of respectability.
What is history for? Australian Historical Association Presidential Address 2024

Nov 5, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Frank Bongiorno

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizeAcknowledgementsMy thanks to Michelle Arrow, Joshua Black, Ian Britain, Emily Gallagher, Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Nicole McLennan and Melanie Oppenheimer for their comments on earlier drafts, and to Matilda Hatcher for her research assistance.
Kim Carr’s memoir is an elegy for older-style Labor politics. Only time will tell if it’s an elegy for the Labor project itself

Oct 25, 2024 | msn.com | Frank Bongiorno

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Kim Carr’s memoir is an elegy for older-style Labor politics. Only time will tell if it’s an elegy for the Labor project itself | Frank Bongiorno

Oct 25, 2024 | theguardian.com | Frank Bongiorno

The moniker “true believer” could almost have been invented for Kim Carr. Indeed, he began his almost 30-year Senate career at the very election, 1993, that Paul Keating claimed had been a “victory for the true believers”. His career was devoted to the proposition that if Australia embraced new technologies and developed the right skill base, it could still make things – an idea that seems to be fashionable in federal Labor government circles again.
Frank Bongiorno reviews ‘A Better Australia: Politics, public policy and how to achieve lasting reform’ by John Brumby, Scott Hamilton, and Stuart Kells

Oct 24, 2024 | australianbookreview.com.au | Frank Bongiorno |Arts Highlights

It is a sign of the times that A Better Australia: Politics, public policy and how to achieve lasting reform begins with a discussion of climate and energy policy. No policy field better illustrates the deficiencies in Australia’s politics over the past generation. It is a tale, as one of the book’s authors, John Brumby, reminds us, of avoidable failure and lost opportunities, as the issue was subjected to the narrower, more immediate incentives offered by partisanship and opportunism.

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