Australia's Prime Ministers: Bob Hawke

In the run up to the Federal Election Trevor Chappell has been look at some of Australia’s former Prime Ministers.

Bob Hawke is Australia's longest serving Labor Prime Minister, he was at the helm from 1983 to 1991.

Trevor Chappell spoke to Professor Geoff Robinson, a political historian and lecturer in Australian Studies and Politics at Deakin University about the Bob Hawke years.

Bob Brown: ecology, economy, equality and eternity

"Against a backdrop of advancing neoliberalism and globalisation, this timely book examines nine prominent Australians from diverse backgrounds - ʻglobal citizensʾ who have each enhanced public life through promoting universal values and human rights. The book charts over 50 years of campaigning, and espouses perennial causes such as peace, social justice, ecological sustainability and gender and racial equality. Ultimately, this inspiring volume sends a message of hope for Australian society and provides a benchmark for all proponents of change."--Publisher description.

Portrait of a charismatic leader : putting Bob Brown in context

Australia has a long record of charismatic political leaders and Bob Brown is perhaps the most notable recent example, but unlike other leaders of this style he has demonstrated remarkable political skill.

Bob sweat and tears: you won't be disappointed

Review of Bob Downe (Mark Trevorrow) show at the Atheneum for the 2014 Melbourne Comedy Festival.

Interview with Bob Sugeng Hadiwinata

Bob Sugeng Hadiwinata is an Indonesian who studied at Monash University in 1990-1993. He studied on an Australian International Development Bureau (AIDAB) Scholarship and completed a Masters in International Relations. In 1995 he accepted another scholarship to Cambridge University where he completed his PhD. The interview was conducted in English by Dr. Jemma Purdey of Deakin University on 1 May 2014. This set comprises: a recording of the interview, a photograph, and a timed summary.

Explainer: Are Bob Dylan's Songs 'Literature'?

Bob Dylan has won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. The media has reported on this surprising choice by asking musicians, poets, and writers if Dylan’s songs are indeed “literature”. Irvine Welsh, the author of Trainspotting (1993), made it clear on Twitter that he didn’t think they were: If you’re a ‘music’ fan, look it up in the dictionary. Then ‘literature’. Then compare and contrast. So are song lyrics a type of literature or, more specifically, poetry? The English poet Glyn Maxwell thinks not. In On Poetry (2011), he writes that “Songs are strung upon sounds, poems upon silence”. Inhabiting silence makes poetry the harder and more important art form. Music, Maxwell writes, makes lyrics seem better than when they appear on the whiteness of the page.

Men and gender relations

Discusses theoretical, political and personal perspectives on men's lives within the context of patriarchal gender relations and examines the potential for men to move beyond patriarchy towards egalitarian non-exploitative relations with women.