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

Chapters
Ross has contributed chapters to a number of multi-authored books. They are listed here:
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
- “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 - “Witness to War and Misery”, Weekend Australian 25.4.2020
- “A Last Feast Before Entering the Cauldron of Lone Pine”, Weekend Australian 24.4.2021
- “Greatest victory on the Somme: Gallant Doch Mackay led his men over the top”, The Australian 22.4.2023
- “In the First Australian Skirmish of WWI, Brian Pockley Made a Selfless But Fatal Decision”, Sun-Herald 17.9.2023
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 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