Robert Manne

Robert Manne AO, FASSA, is Emeritus Professor of Politics and a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at La Trobe University. His most recent book is A Political Memoir: Intellectual Combat in the Cold War and the Culture Wars (La Trobe University Press).

Robert Manne's recent articles

On Jillian Segal’s report into combating antisemitism

On Jillian Segal’s report into combating antisemitism

Several excellent critiques of Jillian Segal’s “Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism” have appeared, by Louise Adler (The Guardian), Henry Reynolds (Pearls and Irritations), Nick Feik (Substack), Guy Rundle (Substack) and Jeffrey Loewenstein (Pearls and Irritations). I would like to add a few additional words.

Executive Council of Australian Jewry's Isi Leibler was a 'covert agent of Israeli intelligence'

Executive Council of Australian Jewry's Isi Leibler was a 'covert agent of Israeli intelligence'

When I began editing Quadrant with Peter Coleman in 1989, my co-editorship was soon overwhelmed by the most unpleasant controversy of my life, at least thus far.

The work of Australia's most distinguished, humane and indefatigable servant of the public good

The work of Australia's most distinguished, humane and indefatigable servant of the public good

Pearls and Irritations is unmistakably the work of John Menadue, one of postwar Australia's most distinguished, humane and indefatigable servants of the public good. I urge you to consider offering it your support.

The Keating conversation - both thought-provoking and original

The Keating conversation - both thought-provoking and original

Early this year the Ideas and Society Program at La Trobe University that I have convened for the past thirteen years invited Paul Keating to speak to our online audience on Australia and China. We invited Professor James Curran, a Professor of Modern History at the University of Sydney, to act as interlocutor. We decided to hold the event after the federal election. Nothing was more certain than that Keating would speak outside the bipartisan consensus on Australias relations with China and that the tired and threadbare Morrison Government would seek to wedge Labor by claiming, preposterously, that Keating represented...