Chapters
Ross has contributed chapters to a number of multi-authored books. They are listed here.
Articles
Ross has contributed many articles to newspapers and periodicals. Listed below are some of them:
“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 Burmeze 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
“Debacle at Anzac Cove”, Courier Mail 23.12.2005
“First in the World: Australia’s Watson Government”, Papers on Parliament January 2006
“Drawn into the Conflict”, Australian 22.4.2006
“The Art of War”, Age 25.4.2006
“Fromelles Casualties Should Be Honoured”, Australian 18.7.2006
“National Security is Now Anyone’s Issue”, Age 3.3.2007
“Will Dyson: Australia’s Forgotten Genius”, Sydney Papers June 2007
“Trade Unions are Not the Bogeyman”, Age 19.10.2007
“The Great Deceiver is in a Class of His Own”, Age 13.11.2007
“Why a French Town Never Forgets Us”, Age 25.4.2008
“Australia’s Deadliest Ever Day”, Age 29.5.2008
“Time to Recognise and Remember a Brilliant Fighter Pilot”, Age 31.5.2008
“Melbourne’s Twin Marks Mateship of Fromelles”, Canberra Times 19.7.2008
“Diggers Did It All on Their Own at Chipilly”, West Australian 23.8.2008
“Archive a Rich Narrative of Bloodiest Battle”, Age 29.8.2008
“New Dog Uses Same Old Tricks”, Age 17.9.2008
“Beware as Abbott Follows Howard’s Way”, Sydney Morning Herald 20.8.2010
“Will the Labor Party Let the Leader Pick Her Own Frontbench?” Age 25.2.2011
“Pompey Elliott: Our Most Revered Fighting General?”, Age 22.4.2011
“The ALP’s Climate of Concern”, Age 20.6.2011
“Farewell, Dear People: Biographies of Gifted Australians Who Died in the Great War”, Sydney Papers October 2012
“Earlier ALP Leadership Wars Offer Solace — for Optimists”, Age 27.2.2012
“Adventurer, Soldier, Hero”, Weekend Australian 21.4.2012
“A Tale Lost in No Man’s Land”, Canberra Times 21.4.2012
“Stray Bullet Claimed Life of a Doctor with Great Promise”, Sydney Morning Herald 25.4.2012
“Fromelles, Friendship and Fate”, Age 19.7.2012
“The Barrister, the Farmer and the Rhodes Scholar”, Weekend Australian 28.7.2012
“Bluebloods Through the Ages”, Age 25.8.2012
“Insidious Leaks from the Past Still Bedevil Gillard”, Age 7.9.2012
“True Love, War and Football”, Age 27.9.2012
“The Madness of War”, Weekend Australian 10.11.2012
“Rhodes Scholar a Tragic Casualty”, West Australian 10.11.2012
“An Epic Journey into the Icy Wastes”, Age 19.12.2012
“Will Dyson: Australia’s Radical Genius”, Papers on Parliament April 2013
“Napthine’s East-West Tunnel, It’s Just Not Cricket”, Age 12.8.2013
“Abbott is Benefiting from Selective Amnesia”, Age 23.10.2013
“Remembrance Day: Forgotten Hero Ted Larkin”, Sydney Morning Herald 11.11.2013
“Tom Elliott at Duntroon, 1912-1914”, Canberra Historical Journal March 2014
“Daddy Wrote Letters from the War”, Age 19.8.2014
“Pompey Elliott Enjoyed Horsing Around with Cup-Mad WWI Soldiers”, Age 18.10.2014
“Abbott’s Lost Credibility: No Surprises, No Excuses”, Age 10.11.2014
“Bendigo Enlists”, catalogue essay for Bendigo Art Gallery exhibition, December 2014
“What Was Lost: More than Battle Casualties”, Griffith Review April 2015
“Gallipoli’s Three Musketeers”, The Australian Magazine 25.4.2015
“‘Heartstrings Aching for the Absent Boy’: Years of Anguish — The Losses of War”, Victorian Historical Journal June 2015
“Gallipoli: Dawn of Death at the Nek”, Australian 7.8.2015
“Anzac Day 2016: Australia’s Finest War Artist is Missing in Action”, Age 25.4.2016
“Diggers on the Western Front: Disaster at Fromelles”, Weekend Australian 16.7.2016
“Will Dyson’s Compassionate Pen Captured Our Faces at the Front”, Weekend Australian 20.8.2016
“Bill Leak and Will Dyson“, Honest History 10.4.2017.
“Disaster to Triumph: The Battle of Polygon Wood“, Remembrance April 2017
“How Pompey Prevailed in the Battle of Polygon Wood”, Australian 26.9.2017
“The Truth Behind Australia’s ‘100 Years of Mateship’ with the US“, Age 1.4.2018
“H.E. ‘Pompey’ Elliott: Man of Uncommon Valour”, Australian 9.4.2018
“Turnbull Made an Astonishing Error at Villers-Bretonneux“, Age 30.4.2018
“Transformation at Villers-Bretonneux”, Remembrance April 2018
“He ran into Matthews and that was the end of him“, Age 11.8.2018
“How a Fledgling Democracy Won a War at Home”, Weekend Australian 27.7.2019
“The True Story of Gallipoli”, Weekend Australian 9.11.2019
“Audiences Should Know That We Were There Too in 1917”, Weekend Australian 8.2.2020
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)
“’Perhaps the Greatest Individual Feat of the War’: The Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, 1918”, Wartime 2, April 1998
“The Black Day of the German Army”, Wartime 3, Spring 1998
“Norman Dalgleish”, Wartime 4, Summer 1998
“Bendigo’s Original Anzac”, Wartime 8, Summer 1999
“Pompey Elliott in the Boer War”, Wartime 10, Autumn 2000
“‘Such is Glory’: The 7th Battalion at Lone Pine”, Wartime 11, Spring 2000
“Escape from Gallipoli”, Wartime 12, Summer 2000
“Ultimate Sacrifice”, Wartime 17, Autumn 2002
“Lumbago Jack: Minister for Austerity”, Wartime 18, 2002
“A True Leader”, Wartime 19, 2002
“Australia’s Lost ‘Kitchener’”, Wartime 24, 2003
“The Butcher of Fromelles”, Wartime 27, 2004
“One of a Kind”, Wartime 29, 2005
“Disaster at Fromelles”, Wartime 36, 2006
“Bringing Cobbers to Australia”, Wartime 45, 2009
“A Divided Australia”, Wartime 80, 2017
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 Historical 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