Geoffrey Bolton AO is the author of numerous books, including A Thousand Miles Away: A history of North Queensland to 1920, The Passing of the Irish Act of Union, A Fine Country to Starve In, the first concise environmental history of Australia, Spoils and Spoilers, and Daphne Street. He has been the general editor of the Oxford History of Australia and author of Volume 5, The Middle Way, 1942-1995. From 1982 to 1985 Geoffrey was foundation professor and head of the Australian Studies Centre at the University of London (now the Sir Robert Menzies Centre). He was the ABC Boyer lecturer for 1992 and has held visiting fellowships at St John's College, Cambridge and All Souls College, Oxford. He is currently senior scholar in residence at Murdoch University and an emeritus professor of Edith Cowan University, having previously held chairs at Western Australia, Murdoch and Queensland.
