MUP is proud to present these authors, amongst many other quality writers in the MUP stable.

Malcolm Fraser

Malcolm Fraser was born in May 1930 and entered federal parliament in 1955 after graduating from Oxford University. He served first as Minister for Army and later as Minister for Defence, and Education and Science.

He became Prime Minister on 11 November 1975 following the dismissal of the Whitlam Labor Government. He resigned from parliament following the March 1983 election defeat after nearly 28 years as the Member for Wannon.

From 1989, Fraser played a key role in bringing an end to apartheid in South Africa as co-chairman of the Commonwealth appointed Committee of Eminent Persons. He was founding Chairman of CARE Australia from 1987 to December 2001, and also served as President of CARE International. He remains at the forefront of political and social debate.

Jana Wendt

Jana Wendt is one of Australia's best known interviewers, with a career in television spanning nearly thirty years. Wendt was a 60 Minutes correspondent and has worked on a number of public affairs programs on television networks in Australia and overseas. In 2005-06 she wrote The Bulletin magazine's 'Lunch with ...' column while presenting and reporting for the Nine Network's Sunday program. She is the author of A Matter of Principle.

Holly Kerr Forsyth

Holly Kerr Forsyth is a writer, photographer and passionate gardener. She has written about gardens for more than a decade and has been the Weekend Australian garden columnist for ten years. Holly is the author of eight books on gardening, including the bestselling Remembered Gardens: Eight Women and Their Visions of an Australian Landscape, The Constant Gardener: A Botanical Bible and Gardens of Eden.

Liam Houlihan

Liam Houlihan is a multi-award winning journalist and former lawyer. He has reported from New York (for the NY Post), Washington DC (briefly in the White House Press Pool), from Sri Lanka after the Boxing Day tsunami, from Singapore for Mick Gatto's pursuit of missing Opes Prime money, and around the nation. He is Crime Reporter with the Sunday Herald Sun whose police and underworld exclusives are regularly syndicated around the nation.

Hetti Perkins

Hetti Perkins is a member of the Eastern Arrernte and Kalkadoon Aboriginal communities. She is the Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. She has curated major survey exhibitions of Indigenous art, including Australia's representation at the Venice Biennale in 1997, and most recently the Australian Indigenous Art Commission at the Musée du quai Branly in Paris. She edited One Sun One Moon:the most ambitious publication on Australian Indigenous art to date. Hetti is the eldest daughter of Charles Perkins, the esteemed Indigenous activist, and an experienced public spokesperson.

Archie Thompson

Archie Thompson is a high profile A-league soccer player, currently playing for Melbourne Victory. In 2005 Archie played for Dutch team PSV Eindhoven and was selected to play for Australia in the 2006 World Cup. He holds the all time scoring record for most goals, 13, scored in one international match.

Peter van Onselen

Peter van Onselen is Associate Professor in politics and government at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia. He is a contributing editor and columnist at The Australian, writes a weekly column in the News Ltd Sunday papers and hosts a weekly program 'The Contrarians' on Sky News. He is the author of John Winston Howard: The Biography (with Wayne Errington) and Howard's End (with Philip Senior), and editor of Liberals in Power: The Road Ahead.

Tanya Ha

Tanya Ha is an author, television presenter and environmental campaigner. She starred in the award-winning SBS Eco House Challenge and is the host of Warm TV (WIN Tasmania). She has worked for Planet Ark and continues to support and assist the work of other environmental organisations. Her books include the bestselling Greeniology and The Australian Green Consumer Guide.

Michaela McGuire

Michaela McGuire is a columnist for the Sunday Age and writes a blog called Swings and Roundabouts. Originally from Brisbane, she now lives in Melbourne. This is her first book.

Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly is Editor-at-Large of The Australian. He was previously Editor-in-Chief of the paper and he writes on Australian politics, public policy and international affairs. Paul has covered Australian governments from Gough Whitlam to Kevin Rudd and spent two decades in the Canberra Press Gallery. He is a regular commentator on ABC television for the Insiders program. Paul is the author of six books: The Unmaking of Gough, The Hawke Ascendancy, The End of Certainty, November 1975, Paradise Divided and 100 Years: The Australian Story.

Tony Abbott

Tony Abbott is the current Federal Shadow Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. From 2004 to 2007 he was Minister for Health and Ageing in the Howard Government and Leader of the House of Representatives in the Federal Parliament. Since 1994 he has been the Member for Warringah, New South Wales, in the House of Representatives. He has written two books in defence of Australia's existing constitutional system, The Minimal Monarchy and How to Win the Constitutional War.

Michael Leunig

Michael Leunig is known as a cartoonist, philosopher, poet and artist. His commentary on political, cultural and emotional life spans thirty-five years. The Penguin Leunig, his first book of collected cartoons, was published in 1974 and since then he has produced twenty more collections including books of poetry and prayer. In 1999 he was declared a national living treasure by the National Trust and awarded honorary degrees from La Trobe and Griffith Universities for his unique contribution to Australian culture. His work appears regularly in the Melbourne Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Shannon Bennett

Chef Shannon Bennett has been described as the 'enfant terrible' of Australian haute cuisine. He is the chef and owner of the acclaimed Melbourne restaurant Vue de monde.

Peter Costello

Peter Costello was Australia's longest serving Treasurer, delivering twelve Federal budgets in his time as Treasurer, and was Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party from 1994 to 2007. He is currently the Member for Higgins in the Australian Federal Parliament, and his book, The Costello Memoirs, co-authored with Peter Coleman, was published in September 2008.

Antony Loewenstein

Antony Loewenstein is a Sydney-based journalist, author and blogger. His 2006 bestseller, My Israel Question, was short-listed for the 2007 NSW Premier's Literary Award. He has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Age, Crikey, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Haaretz and The Nation, among others. His latest book The Blogging Revolution was published in September. The book's website can be found at http://www.bloggingrevolution.com and Antony's own website is http://www.antonyloewenstein.com

Don Watson

Don Watson is the author of many books, including the bestselling Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM, Death Sentence, Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words, Caledonia Australis and his recent American Journeys. In addition to books and essays, he writes films and gives occasional talks on writing and language. His latest book On Indignation was published by MUP in October as part of the Little Books on Big Themes series.

Anne Summers

Anne Summers has had a long career in politics, the media and the nongovernment sector in Australia, Europe and the United States. She ran the Offi ce of the Status of Women for Prime Minister Bob Hawke from 1983 to 1986 and was a political adviser to Prime Minister Paul Keating prior to the 1993 federal election. From 2000 to 2006 she was chair of the board of Amsterdam-based Greenpeace International. She is a former editor of Ms. magazine (New York) and Good Weekend and is author of several books, including the now classic Damned Whores and God's Police (1975), Gamble for Power (1984), her autobiography Ducks on the Pond (1999) and The End of Equality (2003). Her latest book On Luck was published by MUP in October as part of the Little Books on Big Themes series.

Gay Bilson

Gay Bilson's name is synonymous with the renaissance in Australian food that began in the 1970s, pivotally through her 18 years at the acclaimed Berowra Waters Inn. She has created and directed many events centred on food and community. Her book, Plenty: Digressions on Food was named the 2005 Age Book of the Year and her latest book On Digestion was published by MUP in October as part of the Little Books on Big Themes series.

Gideon Haigh

Gideon Haigh has been a journalist for twenty-five years and a journeyman cricketer even longer. He was recently named the world's best cricket writer by The Guardian, he has won the Australian Cricket Society's Literary Award five times, and the Chewy Onya Boot Award for the most not-outs in a season at South Yarra Cricket Club twice. He works mainly for the Monthly, the Guardian and Cricinfo, and lives with a cat, Trumper. His latest book is Inside Out: Writings on Cricket Culture, to be published by MUP in November.

Blanche d'Alpuget

Blanche d'Alpuget is an award-winning journalist, biographer and novelist. Her work includes biographies of judge and diplomat Richard Kirby and former prime minister Bob Hawke, and the novels Monkeys in the Dark (1980), Turtle Beach(1981)and Winter in Jerusalem (1986). A film adaptation of Turtle Beach was released in 1992.

Jim Sharman

Jim Sharman is an international director of film, musicals and theatre. His credits include the stage production of The Rocky Horror Show, which he later directed for 20th Century Fox. He has worked in Australia, Japan, the UK and USA, and his other early career includes the musicals Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar. His stage work has encompassed more than seventy productions, including opera, classics, international writing, and a large body of original Australian work, including much of the stage and screen work of Nobel Laureate, Patrick White. His acclaimed production of Death in Venice for Opera Australia was remounted in 2005.

David Malouf

David Malouf is the author of the short story collections Dream Stuff (2000)and Every Move You Make (2006), and of acclaimed novels including Johnno (1975), The Great World (1990) and Remembering Babylon (1993), which was nominated for the Booker Prize. Malouf also writes poetry, drama and libretti for operas. Born and brought up in Brisbane, he now lives in Sydney.

Germaine Greer

Australian-born writer, journalist and scholar Germaine Greer is one of the leading feminist voices of our time. Her book The Female Eunuch (1970) was an international bestseller and remains one of the most important feminist works ever published. Greer's other books include Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility (1984), The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause (1991) and Shakespeare's Wife (2007).