Paul Strangio

About The Author

Paul Strangio is one of the country’s leading scholarly commentators on politics and emeritus professor of politics in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University, specialising in political leadership. He is the author and editor of a dozen books, including Keeper of the Faith: A Biography of Jim Cairns; winner of the 2013 Australian Political Studies Association Henry Mayer Prize for the best book on Australian politics,  Neither Power Nor Glory: 100 Years of Political Labor in Victoria; with Paul ’t Hart and James Walter, Settling the Office: The Australian Prime Ministership from Federation to Reconstruction; and with Paul ’t Hart and James Walter winner of the  2019 Australian Political Studies Association Henry Mayer Prize for the best book on Australian politics, The Pivot of Power: Australian Prime Ministers and Political Leadership, 1949–2016.

Books by Paul Strangio

The Alchemy of Leadership

Seven Australian Prime Ministers in a Turbulent Twenty-First Century

By Paul Strangio
For most of the twenty-first century, Australia’s national politics has been characterised by tumult and disruption: seven prime ministers; stagnation in key policy areas; dwindling support for the established parties; insurgencies on the left and right flanks; and declining public trust in gover...
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