Troy Reeves is a historian and writer based in Brisbane and rural Queensland, working on Queensland political and social history. He holds a Master of History from the University of New England, where his thesis on the Nicklin Government (1957-68) remains the only substantive published work on the period.
His research interests span mid-twentieth-century Queensland politics, heritage preservation, agricultural and food security policy, and the intersection of institutional power and local communities. His writing has appeared in the Queensland History Journal and in sector reports for Horticulture Australia Limited.
In 2015 Troy Reeves published a piece of family history in a small journal. Nine years later a woman searching online found it, and a 170-year thread was tied off just in time.
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Troy Reeves remembers his friend Duncan Pegg: the Labor MP for Stretton, the student-politics campaigner, and the Las Vegas pre-selection that became “one for the memoirs”.
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I want to set out, carefully, a piece of arithmetic that I think deserves more attention than it gets. Queensland has roughly 20% of Australia's population and contributes about 19% of national GDP.
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