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Summer Series 2022-3 Part 6: David Furse-Roberts & Lyndon Megarrity

In this special summer series of the Afternoon Light podcast you can enjoy the presentations delivered at our November 2022 conference entitled ‘Coming to Power, Learning to Govern and Gathering Momentum 1943-1954’. This sixth episode features David Furse Robert’s paper looking at ‘Percy Spender: the Colombo Plan, the ANZUS Treaty and the Japanese Peace Treaty’ and Lyndon Megarrity’s paper exploring ‘International Students before and after Colombo’ (begins at 18:30).

Dr David Furse-Roberts is a Research Fellow at the Menzies Research Centre. He holds a PhD in history from the University of NSW and is the editor of Howard: The Art of Persuasion (2018) and Menzies: The Forgotten Speeches (2017). Since joining the MRC in 2016, he has written for Quadrant, Spectator Australia, and other publications on the history and contemporary relevance of liberalism in Australia. In 2021 he published God and Menzies: The Faith that Shaped a Prime Minister and his Nation.

Lyndon Megarrity has published widely on many historical topics, including Queensland political history, race relations, local government and Northern Australia. He is the author of Northern Dreams: The Politics of Northern Development in Australia (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2018), which won the 2019 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award. Megarrity completed his PhD in history at the University of New England (awarded in 2002) and has since been employed as an historical researcher and tertiary teacher. He is currently an adjunct lecturer at the College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University in Townsville. With Carolyn Holbrook and David Lowe, he is the co-editor of Lessons from History (NewSouth, 2022) in which historians tackle contemporary problems using an historical lens. In October 2022 he also published his latest single authored monograph, Robert Philp and the Politics of Development (Australian Scholarly Publishing), which focuses on the life and times of Queensland Premier Sir Robert Philp (1851-1922).