Professor Stuart Macintyre

Emeritus Laureate Professor of History, University of Melbourne

Politics & Society

How Soviet tanks shook up the Australian Left

A new archive of personal papers provides a unique insight into the Soviet crack down on the ‘Prague Spring’ in 1968 created a dilemma for Australian communists just as wider protest movements were energising the left

A young man votes in swimmers in Australia

Business & Economics

Go Figure

Why Australians are made to vote

The real secret to how and why Australia adopted compulsory voting was simplicity as well as a hint of classism

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