Josh BLACK

Joshua Black is a lecturer in Australian Political Studies at the Vice-Chancellor’s Centre of Public Ideas, University of Canberra. In addition to working in government as a ministerial speechwriter, he has taught at several Australian universities and published widely on Australian politics. He has been a Palace Letters Fellow at the Whitlam Institute within Western Sydney University and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Australia Institute.

Joshua is the author of Performance Politics: Australian politicians and the stories they tell (NewSouth, 2026), a new account of the role that politicians' memoirs, diaries and documentaries have played in the creation of a more emotional political culture. Joshua is also co-editor, with Frank Bongiorno and Carolyn Holbrook, of Gold Standard? Remembering the Hawke government (NewSouth, 2026). He has edited or co-edited special issues of the Australian Journal of Politics & History as well as the Australian Journal of Biography and History.