Biography
Robert Manne is an Australian academic and political commentator. He is Emeritus Professor of Politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, where he taught until his retirement in 2012. He was educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford.
Manne appeared as himself in the 2013 documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks. He has written or edited numerous books on topics including Australian politics, the Holocaust and 20th-century European history. In 2023 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia.
