Book Launch: Joseph Cook – The Chameleon: Australia's sixth prime minister

Date & time

Wed 12 Feb 2025, 11am–12.30pm

Location

Level 1, Members’ Hall, Australian Parliament House

Speakers

Senator the Hon Sue Lines, President of the Senate

Hon Milton Dick MP, Speaker of the House of Representatives

Dr David Headon AM

Event series

The First Eight Project

Contacts

Louise McKay

Send email

(02) 6277 8702

Image: © No. 006 Cook, Alison Alder, 2016.

Book launch
Joseph Cook – The Chameleon: Australia's sixth prime minister

Wednesday, 12 February 2025, 11:00 am (AEDT)
Location: Level 1, Members' Hall adjacent to the 'I am Woman' exhibition
RSVP: by Monday 10 February to parliamentary.librarian@aph.gov.au

Please join us as Senator the Hon Sue Lines, President of the Senate, and the Hon Milton Dick MP, Speaker of the House of Representatives, launch Joseph Cook — The Chameleon, the latest monograph in the First Eight series authored by Prof David Headon AM.

The launch will be followed by a book signing with the author.
For a copy of Joseph Cook – The Chameleon, see the Parliamentary Shop.

About the author
Prof David Headon AM is a cultural consultant and historian. Formerly Director of the Centre for Australian Cultural Studies, Cultural Adviser to the National Capital Authority and History and Heritage Adviser for the Centenary of Canberra, he is now a Foundation Fellow at the Australian Studies Institute (ANU), a Parliamentary Library Associate and the Canberra Raiders club historian.