Paul Strangio is an emeritus professor of politics at Monash University. A political historian, he is the author and editor of more than a dozen books on Australian politics specialising in the field of political leadership. Paul is a dual winner of the biennial Henry Mayer Prize for the best book on Australian politics. His most recent book is The Alchemy of Leadership: Seven Australian Prime Ministers in a Turbulent Twenty-first Century. For many years, Paul has also been one of the country’s leading scholarly commentators on politics.