Dr Mark Rolfe

Research Summary

Dr Rolfe lectures & researches in the areas of Australian politics, propaganda & public diplomacy, rhetoric, political satire, Americanisation, the internet & politics, and prime ministers.

Publications

Academic Publications & Conferences

'All the World is a Stage - for speaking at cross purposes', International Studies Association Conference, Montreal March 2011.

'The Pleasures of Political Humour in Australian Democracy', in Journal of Australian Studies, vol.34, no.3, September 2010.

'Clashing Taboos: Danish Cartoons', Life of Brian & Public Diplomacy', in
The Hague Journal of Diplomacy , vol.4, no.3, 2009.

'Pleasures and Perils of Humour in Democratic Politics', Australasian Humour Studies Network February 2009 Colloquium on "The Perils and Pleasures of Humour" held at Women's College, University of Sydney.

'The Ends of Howard & Costello?'. in Australian Review of Public Affairs ,
November, 2008. hyperlink

‘New Wine Into Old Bottles: Ethical Appeals & Democratic Discourse’,
Australian Journal of Political Science , vol.43, no.3, 2008.

'The Classics and Australian Culture Wars'. In Knowledge As Value:
Illumination Through Critical Prisms , Edited by I.Morley & M.Crouch,
Rodopi, Amsterdam 2008

‘From Big to Little Screens: Recurring Images of Democratic
Credibility and the Net’, Scan, vol.5 no.1 May 2008 hyperlink

'Cartoons That Are Danish – Not Such Sweet Confections?',
2008 Australian Humour Scholars Network Colloquium on
“Boundaries and Borders of Humour” The Women’s College
in the University of Sydney

"Days of Wine and Poseurs: Stereotypes of Class, Consumption
& Competition in Democratic Discourse"'. Australian Political
Science Association, Conference, Monash University, 2007. hyperlink

'Culture Wars and the Classics in Australian Rhetoric'.
2nd Global Conference: The Value of Knowledge, Sydney,
Inter-Disciplinary Net, 2007. hyperlink

Review Article: The Rhetorical Prime Minister
in Australasian Parliamentary Review , vol.19, no.1, Spring, 2004

‘Antipodean Fordism: postwar americanisation down under’, in
Henry Ford: Critical Evaluations in Business and Management ,
John Cunningham Wood (ed), Taylor & Francis, 2002.

‘Free Speech, Political Correctness and the Rhetoric of Social
Unity under John Howard’ in Just Policy , no.15, April 1999

'Faraway Fordism: the Americanization of Australia and
New Zealand during the 1950s and 1960s', New Zealand
Journal of History , 1999, vol.33, no. 1: 65-92.

“Suburbia” in AmericaniZation and Australia , Phillip & Roger
Bell (eds), University of NSW Press, 1998.

“The Promise and Threat of America in Australian Politics”,
Australian Journal of Political Science ,
November, 1997, vol.32, no.2.


Non-Academic Publications

Beware a PM strutting his stuff, Sydney Morning Herald , 10 March 2003. hyperlink

John Howard and the death of conservatism, The Age,
16 October 2004. hyperlink

US losing the campaign for hearts and minds, in The Canberra Times ,
11 June, 2007

US losing the campaign for hearts and minds, in Online Opinion ,
20 June 2007, hyperlink

Rudd's Report Card, ABC Unleashed , 24 November 2008, hyperlink

Malibu Kevin, ABC Unleashed , 4 February 2009, hyperlink

Do maltese terriers rule the world?, ABC Unleashed , 23 February 2009, hyperlink

Eulogy for Peter, ABC Unleashed , 17 June 2009, hyperlink

Rudd's Test, ABC Unleashed , 15 July 2009, hyperlink

The Labor Biennale, ABC Unleashed , 3 August 2009, hyperlink

Goodbye and good luck, ABC Unleashed , 26 August 2009, hyperlink

The Coalition's climate of change, ABC Unleashed , 25 November 2009, hyperlink

The Premier is gone. Long live the Premier, ABC Unleashed , 4 December 2009, hyperlink

Timing is everything in politics, ABC Unleashed , 23 February 2010, hyperlink

The Drum Wrap: The Budget 2010, ABC Unleashed , 12 May 2010, hyperlink

The media's hypocritical charges of hypocrisy, ABC Unleashed , 24 May 2010, hyperlink

What Kevin Rudd should learn from Ben Chifley, ABC Unleashed , 15 June 2010, hyperlink

The convenient memories of the coalition, ABC Unleashed , 23 November 2010, hyperlink

The price of whinge-ocracy, ABC Unleashed , 23 February 2011, hyperlink