What was your pathway to publishing?

I had been a writer and editor at school and university, I’d worked in the Whitlam government, I’d been a freelance journalist, and I was interested in politics, history, books, and writing, so it was a natural progression – though I didn’t realise it at the time.

What was the first book you ever published?

A small book by an unknown author by the name of Henry Rosenbloom, titled Politics and the Media, in 1976.

Do you edit the books you commission?

Usually.

How many titles do you publish each year?

Around seventy.