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Photograph: Damien McDonald. Portrait of Ian Hancock. PIC NLA 39435. National Library of Australia.
Ian Hancock is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian Dictionary of Biography in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. A graduate of Melbourne and Oxford Universities, he has researched, taught and published in several areas, including African and Australian history and politics, and British imperial history.
For ten years he was the historical consultant to the National Archives for the annual release of Cabinet records and is presently a member of the National Archives Advisory Council and of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Documents on Australian Foreign Policy.
His two most recent books are National and Permanent? The Federal Organisation of the Liberal Party of Australia (2000) and John Gorton: He Did It His Way (2002), and he has published chapters on Sir Robert Askin in The Premiers of NSW (Vol 2 ), 1901-2005 (2006) and Sir John Carrick in The Worldly Art of Politics (2006) both commissioned by the Committee for the Sesquicentenary of Responsible Government in NSW, 1856-2006.
Titles by Ian Hancock:
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