Dr Stephen Wilks is a Research Fellow and Editor for the Australian Dictionary of Biography and the Biographical Dictionary of the House of Representatives.
He holds a 2018 doctorate in Australian history from the ANU about national economic and social development in the twentieth century, focussed on the career of Earle Page.
He has had a varied career in the Commonwealth Government, including in AusAID, the Departments of Infrastructure, Regional Australia, Innovation, Immigration, Trade and Foreign Affairs, and at Australian overseas missions in Jakarta and Hong Kong.
If you have ever seen footage of Question Time in the House of Representatives on the news, you…