Research reports undertaken by Fellows and Summer Scholars during their term at the Australian Prime Ministers Centre.

Fellows

2010-11

• Caryn Coatney, ‘John Curtin: Prime Minister and journalist’ (pdf, 229 KB)
• Paul Davey, ‘The Country Party Prime Ministers’ (pdf, 164 KB)
• Sam Malloy, ‘Prime Ministerial homes’ (pdf, 66 KB)
• Dr Lyndon Megarrity, ‘The regional policies of Ben Chifley and Gough Whitlam’ (pdf, 98 KB)
• Bob Wurth, “Evidence of a deeper antagonism towards the misbehaving ‘colonial’, John Curtin’ (pdf, 164 KB)

2009-10

• Dr Norman Abjorensen, ‘The Strange Political Death of Alfred Deakin’ (pdf, 134 KB)
• Dr Anna Cole, ‘Dancing with the Prime Minister’ (pdf, 66 KB)
• Dr Jacqueline Dickenson, ‘Prime Ministers and Government Accountability’ (pdf, 70 KB)
• Dr Lindy Edwards, ‘The Battle Over Australian Egalitarianism’
• Dr John Hirst, ‘Was Curtin the Best Prime Minister’ (pdf, 65 KB)
• Dr Evan Smith, ‘The “Decade of Dissent” in Australian Parliamentary Discourse, 1975-2007’ (pdf, 321 KB)
• Professor John Warhurst, ‘The Faith of our Prime Ministers’ (pdf, 72 KB)
• Dr Auriol Weigold, ‘Menzies and Nehru: A long shadow’ (pdf, 100 KB)

Summer Scholars

2011-12

• Hannah Altern, ‘Prime Ministers and Multiculturalism’ (pdf, 69 KB)
• Guy Betts, ‘A study of the effectiveness of Whitlam Government urban policies, and the lasting impact on the Western Sydney region today’ (pdf, 82 KB)

2010-11

• Dawn Bolger, ‘The Menzies Government and the Hungarian refugees: An issue of race?’ (pdf, 98 KB)
• Thomas Caunce, ‘Kevin Rudd PM: Making sense of an ‘economic conservative’ and Keynesian social democrat’ (pdf, 131 KB)
• Margaret Hutchison, ‘Politics and painting: Prime Minister Bruce and First World War official war art’ (pdf, 131 KB)
• Ben Rankin, ‘‘Developmental Social Liberalism’ - Alfred Deakin and water resources politics in Australia’ (pdf, 126 KB)

2009-10

• Hannah Martin, ‘Gough Whitlam and the Australian Constitution’ (pdf, 228 KB)
• Nicole Berry, ‘Behind Policy Lines: The Development of Australia’s Restricted Immigration Policy, 1949-1972’ (pdf, 65 KB)
• Charlotte Baines, ‘God under Rudd: An examination of the religion and State relationship under the first two years of the Rudd government’ (pdf, 160 KB)