Articles

Ross has contributed many articles to newspapers and periodicals. Listed below are some of them:

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Chapters

Ross has contributed chapters to a number of multi-authored books. They are listed here:

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Articles

  • “The Impact of Gold on Lawlessness and Crime in Victoria 1851-1854”, Victorian Historical Journal May 1977
  • “C.E.W. Bean, a Man Who Should Be Remembered”, Canberra Times 17.11.1979
  • “The Great, Neglected Will Dyson”, Canberra Times 30.8.1980
  • “A Different Frazer”, Canberra Times 27.9.1980
  • “Will Dyson: The Sentimental Larrikin”, Meanjin October 1980
  • “The Hero Who Chose to Die”, Law Institute Journal June 1982
  • “Wembley, Where Soccer Giants Clash”, Age 18.5.1985
  • “Where the Anzacs Died”, Age 26.10.1985
  • “Villers-Bretonneux and Robinvale: A Tale of Two Towns”, Victorian Historical Journal March 1986
  • “Return to Gallipoli”, Heritage Australia Winter 1986
  • “The Disaster of Fromelles”, Age 19.7.1986
  • “Curtin, the Reluctant Prime Minister”, Australian Society 
    October 1991
  • “Shifting Alliances”, Eureka Street June 1992
  • “Commemorating Labor’s Centenary”, Overland June 1992
  • “The Exhilaration of Rapid Change”, Canberra Times 2.12.1992
  • “The Great Tip-Off Mystery”, Age 30.1.1993
  • “Labor’s Victory the Sweetest of the Century”, Australian 22.3.1993
  • “Turning the Tide of War”, Advertiser 26.4.1993
  • “Voyage to Utopia”, Age 10.7.1993
  • “Researching the ALP History: Some Reflections”, Limited Addition October 1993
  • “Conflict Leaves Legacy of Bitter Divisions”, Weekend Australian 6.11.1993
  • “Ask Not What Your Constitution Can Do for You”, Eureka Street December 1993
  • “The Unknown Anzacs”, Good Weekend 15.4.1995
  • “Daunted by Destiny”, Australian 5.7.1995
  • “The Great Deception”, Weekend Australian 16.12.1995
  • “Pompey Elliott and the Butcher of Fromelles”, Australian Magazine 20.7.1996
  • “The View from the Hill”, Eureka Street April 1996
  • “Obituary: Wayne Condo”, Age 11.8.1998
  • “Digging In”, Australian Magazine 26.9.1998
  • “Tale of Two Brothers”, Age 7.11.1998
  • “The Swinging Forties”, Eureka Street, November 1998
  • “Fini Retreat Madame”, Eureka Street April 1999
  • “Dyson First in a Great Tradition of War Artists”, Age 15.10.1999
  • “Workers Rule, OK”, Age 27.11.1999
  • “How Labor Won the War But Lost the Battle”, Sydney Morning Herald 10.12.1999
  • “Mr Hockey, You’ve Made a Big Mistake”, Age 31.1.2000
  • “A Leap of Faith Put Us on the Philatelic Map”, Age 3.8.2000
  • “Lone Pine, 1915: A Lament from Home Evokes a Different Australia”, Age 9.8.2000
  • “A Friend of the ABC?”, Age 15.11.2000
  • “Remembering the Wit Who Put Bite in the Bull-Ant”, Age 5.3.2001
  • “Australians, Leading the Bloody World”, AFL Record 4.5.2001
  • “Labor’s Favourite Torchbearer”, Australian 12.6.2001
  • “Lessons from Polls Past”, Age 3.8.2001
  • “Grave Situation Discredits Australia”, Age 1.9.2001
  • “When Principle Prevailed”, Age 22.9.2001
  • “National Security? It’s a Job for Beazley”, Australian 25.9.2001
  • “A Curtin Call for the Contenders”, Sunday Age 7.10.2001
  • “War History Sides with Labor”, Courier-Mail 8.11.2001
  • “John Howard and the Politics of Deceit”, Financial Review 10.11.2001
  • “Beazley’s Honoured Place in ALP History”, Age 15.11.2001
  • “Into a Hail of Bullets Went Essendon’s Brave Boys”, Age 25.4.2002
  • “The Forgotten Fallen”, Sydney Morning Herald 19.7.2002
  • “When the War is Over”, Sunday Age 10.11.2002
  • “The Other Anzac Day”, Sunday Age 20.4.2003
  • “George ‘Doc’ Elliott”, AFL Record 25.4.2003
  • “Pompey Elliott: Capacity, Character, Courage”, Agora May 2003
  • “Vigour, Rigour and Charisma: The Remarkable Pompey Elliott, Soldier and Senator”, Papers on Parliament December 2003
  • “When Deakin Went into Bat for Two Elevens”, Age 14.2.2004
  • “Who Says the Tories Win on Security?”, Age 2.4.2004
  • “Working-class Warriors”, Age 24.4.2004
  • “The Birth of Labor”, Australian 27.4.2004
  • “The First National Labour Government in the World”, Recorder 
    June 2004
  • “Tour of Duty”, Age 6.11.2004
  • “Father and Son Enlisted and Died Together”, Canberra Times 25.4.2005
  • “Historian Alexander Downer’s Burmese Daze”, Age 25.5.2005
  • “Woodwork Strikes Provide Shootout Alternative”, Age 1.6.2005
  • “Early Australia in War and Peace: Prime Minister Chris Watson and Brigadier‑General Pompey Elliott”, Sydney Papers September 2005
  • “A Plan to Save Anzac Cove”, Age 15.10.2005
  • “Forget the Theme Park, Save the Real Gallipoli”, Age 19.10.2005
  • “Boys from Bendigo”, Herald-Sun 5.11.2005

Dictionary of Biography entries

  • C.E. Frazer in Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 8
  • J.C. Stewart in Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 12
  • L.L. Cunningham in Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 13
  • E.J. Ward in Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 16
  • N. Lemmon in Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 18
  • H.E. Elliott in Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate Volume 2

Articles for Wartime (magazine of the Australian War Memorial)

Ross has reviewed books and exhibitions:

  • Freedom’s on the Wallaby, exhibition at the National Library of Australia — reviewed in Overland June 1992
  • A.W. Martin, Robert Menzies, A Life: Volume I 1894-1943 – reviewed in Victorian Historial Journal June 1994
  • Michael Cathcart (ed), Manning Clark’s History of Australia — reviewed in Eureka Street November 1993
  • Andrew Spaull, John Dedman: A Most Unexpected Labor Man — reviewed in Australian Historical Studies 112, 1999
  • Craig Wilcox, Australia’s Boer War: The War in South Africa 1899-1902 — reviewed in Australian Historical Studies 122, 2003
  • Michelle Grattan, Back on the Wool Track — reviewed in Age 7.8.2004
  • Anzacs in France 1916, exhibition at the Australian War Memorial — reviewed in Age 8.9.2006
  • E.P.F. Lynch, Somme Mud & Robert Macklin, Jacka VC — reviewed in Australian Literary Review 4.10.2006
  • Lindsay Tanner, Sideshow: Dumbing Down Democracy — reviewed in Age 20.5.2011
  • Glorious Days: Australia 1913, exhibition at the National Museum of Australia — reviewed in Age 7.10.2013
  • Troy Bramston (ed), The Whitlam Legacy — reviewed in Australian Book Review March 2014
  • Jeff Maynard, The Unseen Anzac — reviewed in Royal Australian Historical Society Journal June 2016
  • Chris Bowen, Labor People — reviewed in Recorder November 2021