Writer
Robert Macklin
Robert Macklin is the author of 25 books of Australian history, most recently the best-selling Castaway (Hachette) now in his sixth printing. His sixth book, The Donald Thomson Story, a biography of the great Australian anthropologist and advocate for Aboriginal advancement, is now in bookstores.
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Now, the New Year
In 2024 Democracy narrowly won the prelim on points. Now for the main bout. Its battlespace is the human mind where the contestants are truth and fantasy. If fantasy wins, our species will be decimated, our planet in danger of joining the dead worlds of useless gas and rock we glimpse in the universe around Continue reading »
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Where is Albanese’s grand plan?
Anthony Albanese is feeling the pressure. He reminds me vividly of my biographical subject Kevin Rudd (Penguin 2008) after he lost the vote at the 2009 Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen. Instead of pressing his case at home with a double dissolution election, he went to water. Thereafter, his decision-making became so erratic that his Continue reading »
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Lest We Forget: Japan joining AUKUS a stark reminder of China’s Century of Humiliation
With the addition of Japan, AUKUS ceases to be a device to supply nuclear powered submarines to Australia several decades in the future but a stark reminder of the oppressive powers that abused Chinese sovereignty in the 19th and 20th centuries. Continue reading »
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Battle of the gods
An older man, grey-haired but quite firm in his manner as he spoke to the ABC TV reporter on Palestine’s West Bank. He was an Israeli, he said, and he was claiming the building site because, ‘God gave us this land.’ Continue reading »
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If ever a writer and historian were deserving of a Nobel Prize, it’s Henry Reynolds
It is hard to overestimate Henry Reynolds’ influence in the great movement that culminated in the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Continue reading »
