Michael Cathcart

Michael is a writer and broadcaster with a long association with the Australian Centre and the ABC. As a historian, he is best-known for his acclaimed abridgment of Manning Clark's six-volume classic, A History of Australia (1993). His latest book is The Water Dreamers: The Remarkable History of Our Dry Continent (Text, August 2009). It tells the story of how settler Australians attempted to transform this dry continent and how it, in turn, changed them. It is, he says, “a story of how we learned to belong.”