Contributors John Michael Bennett, AM, is a legal historian. He practised law in Sydney, was Executive Member of the NSW Law Reform Commission for some years, and is an Honorary Life Member of The NSW Bar Association. His legal career included law reporting and the Editorship- in-Chief of the Australian Digest. Academically, he has been Lecturer (part-time), Senior Research Fellow, Visitor, or Adjunct Professor at var- ious Universities. His extensive published works were recognised by award of the rare degrees of LLD (Sydney) and DLitt (ANU), by exami- nation – and Sydney’s Honorary DLitt. He was twice awarded the State Library’s CH Currey Fellowship; was a Churchill fellow; and received the 2006 NSW History Fellowship. He was appointed a member of the Order of Australia (2005) for services to the law. Frank Bongiorno lectures in Australian History in the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies and Department of History, King’s College London. A graduate of the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University (ANU), he has previously held appointments at the ANU, Grif- fith University and the University of New England, and visiting fellow- ships at the University of Cambridge and University of Texas at Austin. He publishes mainly in the fields of labour and political history. Geoffrey Bolton has held Chairs of History at four Australian Univer- sities and was Foundation Professor at the Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian History at the University of London. His professional associations include Fellowships of the Royal Historical Society, the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Royal Society of Arts. He was Chancellor of Murdoch University from 2002 to 2006. The author of numerous books and articles, he has recently published Land of Vision and Mirage: Western Australia since 1826. He continues to research and write on Australian history, British Commonwealth history, and 18th and early 19th century British and Irish history. Rodney Cavalier was a Minister in the Wran and Unsworth Govern- ments. He has written extensively on NSW politics, political parties and cricket. He is the Chairman of the Committee for the Sesquicentenary of Responsible Government in New South Wales. He has served on the National Council for the Centenary of Federation, the Council of the National Library and the Advisory Committee to the Australian Archives. He is Chairman of the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust. xiv CONTRIBUTORS David Clune is the NSW Parliament’s Historian and an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. He is a member of the Committee for the Sesquicentenary of Responsible Government in New South Wales. He is the co-editor with Michael Hogan of The People’s Choice: electoral politics in twentieth century New South Wales, co-author with Gareth Griffith of Decision and Deliberation: the Parliament of New South Wales, 1856-2003, and the co-editor with Ken Turner of The Premiers of New South Wales, 1856-2005. Chris Cunneen, Senior Research Fellow in Modern History at Mac- quarie University, is the author of Kings’ Men: Australia’s Governors- General from Hopetoun to Isaacs and William John McKell: boiler- maker, Premier, Governor-General. He was previously Deputy General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, to which he has contributed over 70 articles, including eight on NSW Governors. Brian Fletcher was appointed as the foundation Bicentennial Professor of Australian History at the University of Sydney in 1987 and held the Chair until 1999. A Fellow of Australian Academy of the Humanities and of the Royal Australian Historical Society he has published extensively on early colonial New South Wales. Amongst his books is a biography of Governor Darling. Currently he is exploring the impact of Anglicanism on Australia and has recently published a book entitled the Place of Anglicanism in Australia. Graham Freudenberg served Australian Labor Leaders as adviser and speechwriter from 1961 to 2005, including NSW Premiers Wran, Unsworth and Carr throughout their terms. His books include A Certain Grandeur: Gough Whitlam in politics (1977 and 2009), Cause for Power: the official history of the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Labor Party (1991) and Churchill and Australia (2008). Neil Graham is a history graduate of the University of Sydney (New England University College). His postgraduate studies at Macquarie and London Universities concerned 19th century Governors of Eastern Australia. A Senior Lecturer at Balmain Teachers’ College and Ku-ring- gai College of Advanced Education before his retirement, he now works as a volunteer guide at Elizabeth Farm, Parramatta and at Government House, Sydney. Gareth Griffith is the Senior Research Officer in the NSW Parlia- mentary Library. He has worked and written widely in the fields of con- stitutional law and political theory. His publications include Socialism and Superior Brains: the political thought of Bernard Shaw. He is the co-author with David Clune of Decision and Deliberation: the Parliament of New South Wales, 1856-2003. xv CONTRIBUTORS Ian Hancock is an Editorial Fellow of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, a member of the National Archives Advisory Council and of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Documents on Australian Foreign Policy. His most recent book is The Liberals: a history of the NSW Division of the Liberal Party of Australia 1945-2000. Michael Hogan retired in 1997 from teaching in the Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney. He is the author of numerous books, including The Sectarian Strand: religion in Australian history and Local Labor: a history of the Labor Party in Glebe, 1891-2003. He is also a co-editor of three volumes of The People’s Choice: electoral politics in twentieth century New South Wales and a fourth volume, The People’s Choice: electoral politics in colonial New South Wales. Gordon Lang is a postgraduate student at Macquarie University. He is preparing a thesis entitled “Furthering British interests in New South Wales: The Role of the Governors, 1891-1914”. Carol Liston is Associate Professor in History at the University of Western Sydney. Her research and teaching cover early colonial history in New South Wales, with interests in people (convict, colonial born and free immigrant), local history, heritage and the built environment. She is editor of the Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, and a Trustee of the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales. She was a mem- ber of the Committee for the Sesquicentenary of Responsible Government in New South Wales. John Kennedy McLaughlin is an Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (where he has served since 1989, as a Master until 2005). He had previously practised at the NSW Bar for 28 years. He has held part-time academic appointments at the University of Sydney, and at the University of Technology, Sydney, as well as at St Paul’s College within the University of Sydney. He has been a member of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, New South Wales Working Party since 1995, and a member of the Supreme Court Heritage Committee since 2001. At various times he has been a member of the Council, and President, of the Society of Australian Genealogists, and a Member of the Council of the Royal Australian Historical Society. He has contributed articles to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, the Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society and other publications. Martha Rutledge was for 35 years a member of the editorial staff of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, for which she wrote 172 articles. She is presently editing her father’s letters (Thomas Lloyd Forster Rutledge, MLA 1920-25) to her mother during World War I, from Gallipoli to France. xvi CONTRIBUTORS Rodney Smith is an Associate Professor in the Department of Govern- ment and International Relations at the University of Sydney. He has researched widely on NSW politics and public administration. His publi- cations include a history of NSW minor parties and Independents since 1910 (Against the Machines), as well as articles and chapters on topics such as the Premiership of Bob Carr, the NSW Parliament, the NSW elections of 1999 and 2003, and the NSW public sector integrity system. Andrew Tink stepped back from active politics in 2007 after eight years at the Bar and 19 years in the NSW Parliament, including time as Shadow Attorney-General and Shadow Leader of the House. He now concentrates on writing. His biography of William Charles Wentworth was published in 2009. He is a Visiting Fellow at Macquarie University’s Law School. Ken Turner retired in 1988 from the Department of Government at the University of Sydney, where he had taught Australian politics for over 20 years. He is currently an Honorary Research Associate. His interests lie in Australian, particularly NSW, politics in the areas of parliament and political parties. He was a member of the Committee for the Sesqui- centenary of Responsible Government in New South Wales and was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the University of Sydney in 2008. He is the author of House of Review?: the New South Wales Legislative Council 1934-1968, co-author with Jim Hagan of A History of the NSW Labor Party, 1891-1991, co-editor with David Clune of The Premiers of New South Wales, 1856-2005, and co-editor with Michael Hogan of The Worldly Art of Politics. Anne Twomey is a constitutional lawyer and an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney Law School where she teaches Federal Consti- tutional Law and Public Law. She has previously worked for the High Court of Australia, the Commonwealth Parliament and the Cabinet Office of New South Wales.