Nick Dyrenfurth

About The Author

Nick Dyrenfurth is the author or editor of seven books, including Mateship: A Very Australian Story and A Little History of the Australian Labor Party. Nick is a leading media commentator, has worked as a Labor Party speechwriter and advisor, and is presently Executive Director of the John Curtin Research Centre.

Books by Nick Dyrenfurth

Powerful Influence on Australian Affairs

A New History of the AWU

By Nick Dyrenfurth
In this new history of the Australian Workers' Union, prominent author Nick Dyrenfurth traces the fortunes of the nation's oldest continuously operating trade union from its origins in the shearing sheds of the late nineteenth century through to it present-day representation of modern Australia's...
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Confusion

The Making of the Australian Two-Party System

Editor Paul Strangio and Nick Dyrenfurth
In Confusion, some of Australia's foremost political historians including Judith Brett and Stuart Macintyre revisit the seminal moment when liberals threw in their lot with the conservatives. In May 1909, Alfred Deakin, the radical liberal doyen, struck an agreement for a controversial 'fusion' w...
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