MUP is proud to present these authors, amongst many other quality writers in the MUP stable.
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.
Christine Nixon
Christine Nixon was the first woman in Australia to be appointed a police commissioner, a post she held with Victoria Police from April 2001 to February 2009.
Christine has been a police officer for more than thirty years. After cutting her teeth in the New South Wales Police Force, where she attained the rank of Assistant Commissioner, Nixon was appointed Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police in April 2001. She resigned from the role to head Victoria’s bushfire taskforce.
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.
Jana Wendt
Jana Wendt was born in Melbourne in 1956 and began her career as a researcher for the ABC before becoming a reporter for Channel 10. She was the youngest ever, and first female, reporter on 60 Minutes, before moving across in 1988 to host A Current Affair. Jana returned to 60 Minutes in 1994 and became a contributing correspondent to the American edition of the show. Jana has also hosted the Seven Network's Witness, and Nine Network's Sunday. During her career, Jana has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Gold Logie and Penguin award for Best Current Affairs Presenter.
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).
