Dr Chris Wallace is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow in the School of History, Australian National University, Canberra, specialising in modern and contemporary political history. She was a longstanding member of the Canberra Press Gallery where she worked for the Australian Financial Review, the Australian, Channel 7 and ABC-TV. Wallace is the author of several books including the biography Greer, Untamed Shrew and The Private Don. She is on Twitter @c_s_wallace and Instagram c_s_wallace
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