History scholar helped define modern Australian identity
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By Matthew Jordan
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NEVILLE KINGSLEY MEANEY: 1932 - 2021
Australia has lost one of its foremost thinkers in the field of foreign and defence policy history. It is difficult not to regard Neville Meaney in such terms given the contribution he made to understanding Australia’s role in the world throughout the 20th century.
“You’re teaching me things,” he would say with infectious delight whenever the research of a colleague or student turned up new insights. Meaney inspired the same attributes in those he taught and moulded the outlook of a great many Australian foreign policy historians and practitioners over several decades.
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