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

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Business & Economics

Go Figure

Why Australians are made to vote

Hint: it goes back to the days of Australia’s upper classes and their servants

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