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About Professor Geoffrey Blainey
Geoffrey Blainey is one of Australia's most well known social and economic historians and authors. He has written more than thirty books including The Tyranny of Distance, Triumph of the Nomads, A Short History of Australia, Black Kettle and Full Moon, and the best-selling A Short History of the World.
Professor Blainey held chairs in economic history and then in plain history at the University of Melbourne for many years, and for some of those years he chaired the Australia Council. He was a delegate to the 1998 Constitutional Convention and has served on many Commonwealth government agencies, including the Australian War Memorial, the Literature Board, the Australian Heritage Commission, the Australia-China Council, and the National Council for the Centenary of Federation.
He is one of the few Australians whose biography appears in Encyclopaedia Britannica. Some of his keynote topics include: What are Australia's Greatest Mistakes in Recent Years? The New Millennium: A Horizon of Opportunity? Australia in the Next 15 years ? Is the Lucky Country Alive or Dead? How Can We Put Australia On Track Again? Australia's Opportunities and Problems in the Early 2000s and Australia and Asia: The 1000 Billion Dollar Question.
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