List of Australian political memoirs

This is a list of Australian political memoirs:

Labor

• Father of the House: The Memoirs of Kim E. Beazley by Kim Edward Beazley
• A Cabinet Diary: A Personal Record of the First Keating Government by Neal Blewett (1999)
• Through the Wall: Reflections on Leadership, Love and Survival by Anna Bligh (2015)
• As It Happened by John Button (1998)
• Be Just and Fear Not by Arthur Calwell (1972)
• The Cameron Diaries by Clyde Cameron (1990)
• Thoughtlines: Reflections of a Public Man by Bob Carr (2002)
• Diary of a Foreign Minister by Bob Carr (2014)
• I Do Recall: Reflections on a Social and Political Journey by Jeff Carr (2008)
• My Life and Times by Joe Chamberlain (1998)
• Roosters and Featherdusters by Brian Chatterton (2013)
• The Fights of My Life by Greg Combet (2011)
• Cold Tea for Brandy: A Tale of Protest, Painting and Politics by Joan Coxsedge (2007)
• Public Life, Private Grief: A Memoir of Political Life and Loss by Mary Delahunty (2010)
• Felicia: The Political Memoirs of Don Dunstan by Don Dunstan (1981)
• I Had 50,000 Bosses: Memoirs of a Labor Backbencher 1946-1975 by Gil Duthie (1984)
• Inside the Hawke-Keating Government: A Cabinet Diary by Gareth Evans (2014)
• Big Blue Sky: A Memoir by Peter Garrett (2015)
• Sticks and Stones by Arthur Gietzelt (2014)
• My Story by Julia Gillard (2014)
• Hayden, An Autobiography by Bill Hayden (1996)
• Politics, Death and Addiction by Carolyn Hirsh (2013)
• The Hawke Memoirs by Bob Hawke (1994)
• A Thinking Reed by Barry Jones (2006)
• Speaking For Myself Again: Four Years With Labor and Beyond by Cheryl Kernot (2002)
• Matters for Judgment: An Autobiography by John Kerr (1978)
• The Latham Diaries by Mark Latham (2005)
• Machine Rules: A Political Primer by Stephen Loosley (2015)
• The Memoirs of Norman John Oswald Makin by Norman Makin (1982)
• Stirring the Possum: A Political Autobiography by Jim McClelland (1989)
• Tales From The Political Trenches by Maxine McKew (2012)
• Carpenter to Cabinet: Thirty-Seven years of Parliament by George Pearce (1951)
• My Reminiscences by George Reid (1917)
• Living Politics by Margaret Reynolds (2007)
• Whatever It Takes by Graham Richardson (1994)
• Catching the Waves: Life In and Out of Politics by Susan Ryan (1999)
• The Good Fight: Six Years, Two Prime Ministers and Staring Down the Great Recession by Wayne Swan (2014)
• Straight Left by Tom Uren (1995)
• Confessions of a Failed Finance Minister by Peter Walsh (1995)
• Chops for Breakfast: A Lucky Generation in an Age of Accelerating Change by Bob Whan (2014)