Deborah Gare completed a PhD in Australian History at the University of Western Australia. She was a Research Associate at Curtin University, a Visiting Fellow of the University of British Columbia and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Manchester. Gare is Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning, Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences and leads the History program in Fremantle at the University of Notre Dame Australia. Her books include When War Came to Fremantle, Fremantle, Tom Stannage and Making Australian History.
Geoffrey Bolton (1931–2015) was Chancellor of Murdoch University and an adjunct professor at Curtin University of Technology. He was a Fellow of the Australian Academies of Humanities and Social Sciences and of the Royal Historical Society, and an Officer of the Order of Australia. His books include Edmund Barton: The One Man for the Job and The Oxford History of Australia. He first met Geoffrey Blainey in 1950. Stuart Macintyre was Ernest Scott Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. His previous works include A Proletarian Science, Winners and Losers: The Pursuit of Social Justice in Australian History, Volume 4 of the Oxford History of Australia and A Colonial Liberalism. Tom Stannage
Charles Stannage (1944–2012) was Professor of History and Executive Dean of the Division of Humanities at Curtin University of Technology. He was a Member of the Order of Australia, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. His books include The People of Perth, Lakeside City, Embellishing the Landscape, and Baldwin Thwarts the Opposition and he edited A New History of Western Australia. He first wrote about Geoffrey Blainey for Historical Studies in April 1982.