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1 ‘(Re)making History : Kevin Rudd’s Approach to Political Autobiography and Memoir’ Josh Black , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Biography and History , April no. 3 2020; (p. 149-159) 'On 25 October 2018, Kevin Rudd headlined a function at Sydney Town Hall entitled ‘After the Crash: Australia in the World Ten Years on from the Global Financial Crisis’ (GFC). Following a panel conversation, Rudd dutifully signed copies of his new book, The PM Years, which had been officially launched just days earlier at Parliament House. Noticing my relative youth, he asked whether or not I was studying. I replied that I had just written an Honours thesis about Labor political memoirs, including his earlier work, Not for the Faint-hearted. He paused for a moment, prompting an immediate fear that I had made a faux paus. Eventually, he settled on an uncharacteristically succinct reply: ‘You poor bastard’.' (Introduction)
1 Ten Doors Down : The Story of an Extraordinary Adoption Reunion by Robert Tickner Josh Black , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 420 2020;
— Review of Ten Doors Down Robert Tickner , 2020 single work autobiography

'Twenty years ago, Robert Tickner tried his hand at the nuanced art of political memoir. Taking a Stand (2001) was, he said, ‘an insider’s account of momentous initiatives’ in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs portfolio in the 1990s. A portrait of the politician as a young man, son, father, and husband was not in the offing. Cabinet diarist Neal Blewett, a man not renowned for political flamboyance, described Tickner’s narrative as ‘remorselessly impersonal’. Privately, it seems, Tickner also protested that ‘the public me is not the real me!’' (Introduction)
1 [Review] Tiberius with a Telephone : The Life and Stories of William McMahon Josh Black , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Biography and History , October no. 2 2019; (p. 187-192)
— Review of Tiberius with a Telephone : The Life and Stories of William McMahon Patrick Mullins , 2018 single work biography
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