Stephen Stockwell

Professor Emeritus in Journalism and Communication, Griffith University. Previously journalist at 4ZZZ, JJJ and Four Corners and media officer for the Queensland Labor Party and various politicians. Author of Political Campaign Strategy and Rhetoric and Democracy and co-editor of The Secret History of Democracy. Since retiring he has experimented with retelling history in poetic form in The Voyage and the Vision and The Phoenician Sonnets. His most recent book is 1975: The Ballads of the Whitlam Dismissal which includes not only ten rollicking bush ballads but also an investigative essay reviewing the available evidence on the events of 1975. The book is available in-store or online at Avid Reader, Brisbane. It is also on Amazon, Booktopia and Print on Demand. Soon available at Kindle.