Robert Manne

Robert Manne is the author or editor of twenty-seven books. The Petrov Affair won the Washington National Study Center's Prize in 1988 for books in the field of intelligence published by a non-American author. In Denial won the Queensland Premier's Prize in 2001 for a work advancing public debate. Between 1987 and 2005 he was a columnist on public affairs for all the main Australian newspapers--the Melbourne Herald , the Australian , the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald . Manne has also been...See more

Robert Manne is the author or editor of twenty-seven books. The Petrov Affair won the Washington National Study Center's Prize in 1988 for books in the field of intelligence published by a non-American author. In Denial won the Queensland Premier's Prize in 2001 for a work advancing public debate. Between 1987 and 2005 he was a columnist on public affairs for all the main Australian newspapers--the Melbourne Herald , the Australian , the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald . Manne has also been a frequent contributor to Australia's public radio and television corporation, the ABC, over several decades. Between 1990 and 1997 he was editor of one of Australia's most significant magazines of ideas, Quadrant . He has also served as the editorial board chair of Australian Book Review and The Monthly magazine. In two surveys of peers conducted in 2005 he was voted Australia's leading public intellectual. Manne is presently Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, Emeritus Professor and Convenor of the Ideas & Society Program at La Trobe University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. See less