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As a historian in the public realm, he was an unrelenting defender of good scholarship and academic freedom. While he taught general Australian history, many will remember his classes on the working class in history and literature with deep pleasure.

He was a close and constructive critic of his students’ work and a dedicated supervisor. He always answered letters and later, emails, immediately. He has gone far too early, but he has left an extraordinary legacy.

He was one of those commanding people against whom others measure their ideas, their work and their politics.

ALP stacks and reform media mentions listįor almost half a century he was there in the lives and work of his students, his colleagues, his comrades and his friends.