Greg Lockhart

Greg Lockhart is author of The Minefield: An Australian Tragedy in Vietnam (2007), which was short listed for the New South Wales Premier’s Prize. His essays on Australian historiography include ‘Absenting Asia’ in Australia’s Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian century (2012) and ‘Barrier Thinking’ in Griffith Review 48: Enduring Legacies (2015).

Works By Greg Lockhart

In the House of Stories
Unified by the author’s fine writing and lively, non-judgemental voice, we have a narrative of transience that poses an elemental challenge to the demarcations of fiction and non-fiction and, in that way, to the politics supporting the inhumanity
1 Oct. 2020
At The Limits of Liberalism: The Enigmatic Mr Deakin
Why then is Brett’s new biography important? It is important, because, written with conspicuous skill and economy, it is the leading continuation and affirmation of Deakin’s liberal-progressive life and work in our own troubled times of short parl...
26 Mar. 2019
Into the Jaws of the Monster: Fromelles and Pozières, 1916
Roger Lee’s The Battle of Fromelles and Meleah Hampton’s Attack on the Somme are part of a relatively recent shift in the focus of Australian military history: they revisit big battles on the Western Front, which few works have done since Charles
31 Oct. 2017
Gallipoli Reckoning
On Anzac Day, Australian culture anticipates what it confirms: the sending of long-range military expeditions to encourage and support wars in which British or American forces are engaged. Just as there is no serious parliamentary debate over deci...
21 Apr. 2016
Churchill’s Silver Bullet: The Grand Deception by Tom Curran
‘We all have an idea that the Dardanelles and Gallipoli campaigns did not turn out well. Dealing with that failure has after all helped to shape the Australian identity. It has given us the Anzac tradition, which rests on a story of heroism in def...
15 Apr. 2016
Imperial Romance: Broken Nation & Hell-Bent
Beaumont refers to the expectation that if Britain declared war ‘Australia and the other dominions would follow’. She says, wrongly, that ‘the Cook government accepted the British decision without question’ and uses the term ‘consensus’ to describ...
24 Apr. 2015

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Greg Lockhart

Works By Greg Lockhart

In the House of Stories

At The Limits of Liberalism: The Enigmatic Mr Deakin

Into the Jaws of the Monster: Fromelles and Pozières, 1916

Gallipoli Reckoning

Churchill’s Silver Bullet: The Grand Deception by Tom Curran

Imperial Romance: Broken Nation & Hell-Bent