Michael Cathcart

Melbourne-born Michael Cathcart was educated at Melbourne Grammar, the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University and has worked as a schoolteacher and theatre director and is currently a lecturer in Australian Studies at the University of Melbourne. Cathcart has presented several Radio National programs, including Arts Today and the Radio National Quiz, and for ABC TV presented the history magazine show Rewind and the documentary series Rogue Nation. He is the author of Defending the National Tuckshop (1988) and has published an abridgement of Manning Clark’s epic A History of Australia. His latest book is The Water Dreamers (Text publishing, 2009).