Gregory Melleuish
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Gregory Melleuish is an Australia
n associate professor of history
and politics
at the University of Wollongong
. Subjects he teaches include Australia
n politics, political theory, world history
and ancient history
http://www.duffyandsnellgrove.com.au/authors/melleuish_g.htm. Previously, he taught Europe
an history at the University of Melbourne
and Australian Studies at the University of Queensland
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/staffinfo/UOW018770.html. He occasionally contributes opinion pieces for The Australian
and On Line Opinion
.
and admires the conservative philosopher Edmund Burke
. He also occasionally writes columns for The Australian
, Australia's national newspaper. In these columns, he often advocates laissez-faire
economic policies http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,22058040-7583,00.html and criticises the way history is often taught in Australian schools and universities. His main personal interests include:
The Packaging of Australia (UNSW Press 1998)
A Short History of Australian Liberalism (CIS 2001)
Union Amongst the Colonies (Australian Scholarly Publishing 2001) (with John West).
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n associate professor of history
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
and politics
Politics
Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...
at the University of Wollongong
University of Wollongong
The University of Wollongong is a public university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, approximately 80 kilometres south of Sydney...
. Subjects he teaches include Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n politics, political theory, world history
World History
World History, Global History or Transnational history is a field of historical study that emerged as a distinct academic field in the 1980s. It examines history from a global perspective...
and ancient history
Ancient history
Ancient history is the study of the written past from the beginning of recorded human history to the Early Middle Ages. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, with Cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of coherent writing, from the protoliterate period around the 30th century BC...
http://www.duffyandsnellgrove.com.au/authors/melleuish_g.htm. Previously, he taught Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an history at the University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...
and Australian Studies at the University of Queensland
University of Queensland
The University of Queensland, also known as UQ, is a public university located in state of Queensland, Australia. Founded in 1909, it is the oldest and largest university in Queensland and the fifth oldest in the nation...
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/staffinfo/UOW018770.html. He occasionally contributes opinion pieces for The Australian
The Australian
The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964. The editor in chief is Chris Mitchell, the editor is Clive Mathieson and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly....
and On Line Opinion
On Line Opinion
On Line Opinion is an electronic opinion journal, founded in 1999 by political commentator and strategist Graham Edward Young, a former president of the Queensland branch of the Liberal Party of Australia, and edited by Susan Prior...
.
Political leanings
Melleuish is a political conservative, who supports liberalismLiberalism
Liberalism is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally, liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights,...
and admires the conservative philosopher Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke PC was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party....
. He also occasionally writes columns for The Australian
The Australian
The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964. The editor in chief is Chris Mitchell, the editor is Clive Mathieson and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly....
, Australia's national newspaper. In these columns, he often advocates laissez-faire
Laissez-faire
In economics, laissez-faire describes an environment in which transactions between private parties are free from state intervention, including restrictive regulations, taxes, tariffs and enforced monopolies....
economic policies http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,22058040-7583,00.html and criticises the way history is often taught in Australian schools and universities. His main personal interests include:
- Australian political culture
- Australian intellectual history with an emphasis on political, cultural and religious ideas
- World history, in particular the role of the state, war and commercial activity
Major publications
Cultural Liberalism in Australia (CUP 1995)The Packaging of Australia (UNSW Press 1998)
A Short History of Australian Liberalism (CIS 2001)
Union Amongst the Colonies (Australian Scholarly Publishing 2001) (with John West).