Geoff Robinson - Profile

Dr Geoff Robinson is in an Australian political scientist and historian. He teaches at the Warrnambool campus of Deakin University and blogs on Australian and international politics at  geoffrobinson.info/blog .

Geoff's book When the Labor Party Dreams: Class, Politics and Policy in New South Wales 1930-32 is to be published in September 2008. Futher information and an order form here.

He provides regular political commentary for ABC radio, and for a wide range of other media outlets, including SBS, the BBC, The Bulletin and The Age. Geoff is able to provide comment on Australian state and federal politics, elections, American and international politics. He has published widely on these topics, and has presented to conferences in Australia, United States and India.

Geoff has undergraduate degrees in politics, history and law from the Universities of Sydney and Melbourne, a PhD in Australian history from Monash University and a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education from Deakin University. Geoff teaches Australian history, politics and tourism at Deakin University. He has taught at Monash University, and worked in higher education policy development and research management. His research interests include:

• Australian political and economic history
  American history and politics
• Labour and business history
  Quantitative methods in history
  Socialist thought and practice
• Law and politics
  Australian political thought

Geoff was born in Sydney. He lives with his partner in Warrnambool.