Sean Scalmer

About The Author

Associate Professor Sean Scalmer from the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne is the author and editor of several books on the history of social movements, including How to Vote Progressive in Australia: Labor or Green? with Dennis Altman.

Books by Sean Scalmer

Public Opinion, Campaign Politics & Media Audiences

New Australian Perspectives

Editor Bridget Griffen-Foley
This timely book investigates the fascinating landscape of media-driven politics through the prisms of 'public opinion', political campaigning, and audiences.

From Indigenous voting rights and climate change to talkback radio and right-wing populism, Public Opinion, Campaign Politics &a...
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What If?

Australian History as it Might have been

By Sean Scalmer and Stuart Macintyre
What if key episodes in Australia's past had turned out differently? If France had colonised part of Australia in the eighteenth century? If the ANZACS had played only a minor role in the Gallipoli landing in World War I? If Gough Whitlam's Labor government had been re-...
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