Michelle Arrow is Professor in Modern History at Macquarie University. Her books include The Seventies: The Personal, The Political and the Making of Modern Australia (NewSouth, 2019) and Friday on Our Minds: Popular Culture in Australia Since 1945 (2009).

Angela Woollacott (FRHistS, FASSA, FAHA) is the Manning Clark Professor of History at the Australian National University. She is the author of many books, including Settler Society in the Australian Colonies: Self-Government and Imperial Culture (Oxford University Press, 2015) and most recently Don Dunstan: The Visionary Politician who Changed Australia (Allen and Unwin, 2019).