Liam Byrne

About The Author

Liam Byrne is a biographer and political historian, and has written on Australian politics and history for the Guardian, The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the South China Morning Post, The Conversation and many others. Byrne’s first book, Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin: the Making of the Modern Labor Party, was published by Melbourne University Press in 2020.

Books by Liam Byrne

No Power Greater

A History of Union Action in Australia

By Liam Byrne
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Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin

Their early political careers and the making of the modern Labor Party

By Liam Byrne
Before becoming the prime ministers who led Australia in moments of extraordinary crisis and transformation, John Curtin and James Scullin were two young working-class men who dreamt of changing their country for the better. Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin tells the tale of their in...
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