Endnotes
1.Barbara Caine, Biography and History,Palgrave Macmillan,, 2010, p.16.
2.Nick Salvatore, ‘Biography and social history: An intimate relationship’, Labour History, no.87, November2004, p.187.
3.Cited inRobert Rotberg, ‘Biography and historiography: Mutual evidentiary and interdisciplinary considerations’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol.40, no.3, 2010, pp.317-18.
4.Lois Banner, ‘Biography as history’, American Historical Review, vol.114, no.3, June2009, p.580.
5.R. Gollan, ‘Labour History’, Bulletin of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, no.1, January1962, pp.3-5.
6.David Day, Chifley,Harper Collins,, 2001;David Day, John Curtin: A Life,Harper Collins,, 1999;Jenny Hocking, Gough Whitlam: The Biography,Miegunyah, Press,, 2008;Blanche d’Alpuget, Hawke: The Prime Minister,Melbourne University Press,, 2010;Don Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM,Random House Australia,, 2002;David Day, Andrew Fisher,Harper Collins,, 2008;Kate White, John Cainand Victorian Labor 1917-1957,, 1982;Bede Nairn, The ‘Big Fella’:Jack Lang and the Australian Labor Party 1891-1949, revised edition,Melbourne University Press,, 1995;Peter Golding, They Called Him Old Smoothie: John Joseph Cahill,Australian Scholarly Publishing,, 2009;Marilyn Dodkin, Bob Carr: The Reluctant Leader,UNSW Press,, 2003;Ross Fitzgerald, ‘Red Ted’: The Life of E.G. Theodore,University of Queensland Press,, 1994;Daniel Connell, The Confessions of Clyde Cameron 1913-1990,ABC Enterprises,, 1990;Tom Uren, Straight Left,Random House Australia,, 1995.
7.Caine, Biography and History, pp.13-14.
8.Marilyn Lake, ‘The constitution of political subjectivity and the writing of labour history’, inTerry Irving(ed.), Challenges to Labour History,UNSW Press,, 1994, p.76.
9.Ibid., pp.77, 80.
10. The Age, 13May2002.
11.Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart, p.76.
12.Ibid., p.19.
13.H.V. Evatt, Australian Labour Leader:The Story of W.A. Holman and the Labour Movement,Angus and Robertson Ltd,, 1940.
14.Kylie Tennant, Evatt: Politics and Justice,Angus and Robertson,, 1970, p.114.
15.Evatt, Australian Labour Leader, p.564.
16.Ibid., p.567.
17.Ibid., p.568.
18.Ibid., pp.566, 574.
19.John Iremonger, ‘Rats’, inJohn Faulkner andStuart Macintyre(eds), True Believers: The Story of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party,Allen & Unwin,, 2001.
20.L.F. Fitzhardinge, William Morris Hughes: A Political Biography,Angus and Robertson,, 2vols, 1964-79. See alsoDonald Horne, In Search of Billy Hughes,Macmillan,, 1979.
21.For a discussion of labour‘rats’, seeJacqueline Dickenson, Renegades and Rats: Betrayal and the Remaking of Radical Organisations in Britain and Australia,Melbourne University Press,, 2006.
22.Al Grassby andSilvia Ordonez, The Man that Time Forgot: The Life and Times of John Christian Watson, Australia’s First Labor Prime Minister,Pluto Press, 1999;Peter Bastian, Andrew Fisher: An Underestimated Man,UNSW Press,, 2009;Edward W. Humphreys, Andrew Fisher: The Forgotten Man,Sports and Editorial Services Australia,, 2008.
23.Caine, Biography and History, pp.118-21.
24.Mark Hearn, ‘Cultivating an Australian sentiment: John Christian Watson’s narrative of white nationalism’, National Identities, vol.9, no.4, 2007.
25.Ross McMullin, So Monstrous a Travesty: Chris Watson and the World’s First National Labour Government,Scribe Publications,, 2004.
26.Hearn, ‘Cultivating an Australian sentiment’, pp.351-52.
27.Aside from Bastian and Humphreys, cited above, see alsoDavid Day, Andrew Fisher: Prime Minister of Australia,HarperCollins,, 2008;W.K. Anderson, ‘Andrew Fisher: “a proud, honest man of Scotland”’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol.87, no.2, 2001.
28.Evatt, Australian Labour Leader, p.276.
29.Day, Andrew Fisher, p.201.
30.Ibid., pp.198, 218.
31.Bede Nairn, The ‘Big Fella’: Jack Lang and the Australian Labor Party 1891-1949,Melbourne University Press,, 1986, p.316.
32.Heather Radi andPeter Spearritt(eds), Jack Lang,Hale & Iremonger,, 1977; see alsoMiriam Dixson, Greater than Lenin? Lang and Labor 1916-1932,Melbourne University Press, 1977;Harry Mayfield, Jack Lang, the Big Fella!,Kangaroo Press,, 1984;Frank Cain, Jack Lang andthe Great Depression,Australian Scholarly Publishing,, 2005.
33.Tennant, Evatt: Politics and Justice, p.119.
34.Ken Buckley,Barbara Dale andWayne Reynolds, Doc Evatt: Patriot, Internationalist, Fighter and Scholar,Longman Cheshire,Melbourne, 1994, pp.133-34.
35.Ibid., p.410;Peter Crockett, Evatt: A Life,Oxford University Press,, 1993.
36.Buckleyet al., Doc Evatt, p.417.
37.Crockett, Evatt: A Life, p.58.
38.Ibid., pp.59-60.
39.Ibid., p.305.
40.Day, Curtin: A Life;Lloyd Ross, John Curtin: A Biography,Macmillan,, 1977.
41.Day, Curtin: A Life, p.583.
42.Quoted inL.F. Crisp, Ben Chifley: A Biography,Longmans, 1961, p.210.
43.Ibid., pp.210-11.
44.Jenny Hocking, Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History,Melbourne University Publishing,, 2008, p.47.
45.Ibid., p.71.
46.Ibid., pp.101-2.
47.Ibid., pp.120-21.
48.Blanche d’Alpuget, Robert J. Hawke: A Biography,Landsdowne Press,, 1982;Blanche d’Alpuget, Hawke: The Prime Minister,Melbourne University Publishing,, 2010.
49.d’Alpuget, Robert J. Hawke: A Biography, pp.1-2.
50.Jacqueline Kent, The Making of Julia Gillard,Viking,, 2009, p.4.
51.‘Gillard praises “role model” Hawke at book launch’, ABC News [website]http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/12/2951535.htm
52.Kent, The Making of Julia Gillard, p.284.
53. The Age, 15July2010.
54.Banner, ‘Biography as history’, p.579;Joan W. Scott, ‘Gender: A useful category of historical analysis’, inJoan W. Scott, Gender and the Politics of History,Columbia University Press,, 1988.
55.Joy Damousi, ‘Feminist biography’, inRichard Broome(ed.), Tracing Past Lives: The Writing of Historical Biography,History Institute,, 1995, pp.34-35.
56.Joy Damousi, Women Come Rally: Socialism, Communism and Gender in Australia 1890-1955,Oxford University Press,, 1994.
57.Damousi, ‘Feminist biography’, pp.40-41.
58.Pam Young, Proud to be a Rebel: The Life and Times of Emma Miller,University of Queensland Press,, 1991;Bobbie Oliver, Jean Beadle: A Life of Labor Activism,University of Western Australia Press, 2007;Lekkie Hopkins andLyn Roarty, Among the Chosen: The Life Story of Pat Giles,Fremantle Press,, 2010.
59.Kate Deverall, ‘They did not know their place: The politics ofAnnie GoldingandKate Dwyer’, Labour History, no.87, November2004, p.44.
60.Zelda D’Aprano, Kath Williams: The Unions and the Fight for Equal Pay,Spinifex Press,, 2001, p.217.
61.Ibid., pp.219-20.
62.Ibid., p.219.
63.Ibid., p.221.
64.SeePatricia Grimshawet al., Creating a Nation,Penguin Books,, 1996.
65.Barbara Pocock, Strife: Sex and Politics in Labour Unions,Allen & Unwin,, 1997, p.3.
66.Banner, ‘Biography as history’, p.581.
67.Ibid., p.581.
68.Ross Fitzgerald, The People’s Champion: Fred Paterson: Australia’s Only Communist Party Member of Parliament,University of Queensland Press, 1997.Tom McDonald andAudrey McDonald, Intimate Union: Sharing a Revolutionary Life,Pluto Press,, 1998;Stephen Holt, A Veritable Dynamo: Lloyd Ross and Australian Labor 1901-1987,University of Queensland Press,, 1996;Susanna Short, Laurie Short: A Political Life,Allen and Unwin,, 1992;Tasnor Bull, Life on the Waterfront: An Autobiography,Harper Collins,, 1998.
69.Stuart Macintyre, Militant: The Life and Times of Paddy Troy,Allen & Unwin,, 1984.
70.‘Struggling for recognition: The individual in labour history’, a thematic inLabour History, no.87, November2004. We have included in the survey only those works which could be classified as articles. The survey does not include research notes or obituaries.
71.Paul Strangio, ‘“Young, ambitious and eager”: Stan Keon and the Victorian Public Service Association’, Labour History, no.87, November2004, pp.167-86.
72.Keith Gildart andDavid Howell, (eds), Dictionary of Labour Biography,Palgrave Macmillan,, 2010.
73.Andrew Moore andJohn Shields, Collective Biography and Labour History: The Case of The Biographical Register of the Australian Labour Movement, 1788-1975, unpublished paper presented to the AAHANZBS Conference,University of Sydney, 2009.
74.Rotberg, ‘Biography and historiography’, p.305.
75.Bill Williamson, Class Culture and Community: A Biographical Study of Social Change in Mining,Routledge & Kegan Paul,, 1982.
76.Ibid., p.1.
77.Ibid., pp.2-3.
78.Banner, ‘Biography as history’, p.582.
79.Rotberg, ‘Biography and historiography’, pp.323-24.
80.Ibid., p.324.