13 Facts About Robert Manne

Robert Michael Manne was born on 31 October 1947 and is an Emeritus Professor of Politics and Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Robert Manne was born in Melbourne to parents who were Jewish refugees from Europe.

Robert Manne was educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford.

Robert Manne joined La Trobe University in Melbourne in its early years.

Robert Manne served there as a professor in politics and culture until retirement in 2012.

Robert Manne has two daughters, including Kate Manne, a philosopher and an associate professor at Cornell University.

Robert Manne has undertaken research in areas such as censorship, antisemitism, asylum seekers and mandatory detention, Australia's involvement in the Iraq War, the Stolen Generations, and the "history wars" of the 1990s.

Robert Manne has aligned at various times within the Australian political scene from left to right, then back to left again; he titled a compendium of his political essays Left, Right, Left.

Between 1989 and 1997 Robert Manne edited the conservative magazine Quadrant, resigning when his editorial policies diverged from the views of the magazine's management committee.

Robert Manne had originally been appointed based on his previous anti-communist publications and his reputation as a conservative.

Robert Manne edited the 2003 anthology, Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History, as a rebuttal to Keith Windschuttle's claims disputing there was genocide against Indigenous Australians and guerrilla warfare against British settlement on the continent.

Robert Manne was Chairman of the editorial board of The Monthly, a national magazine of politics, society and the arts, from February 2006 until his resignation on 18 August 2011.

Robert Manne is Chair of the Australian Book Review, a board member of The Brisbane Institute, and a member of the board of the Stolen Generations Taskforce in Victoria.