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Race Mathews is a post-doc student currently undertaking research into Social Catholicism and Distributism. He is a former Federal MP, State MP and Minister, Municipal Councillor and Chief of Staff to Opposition Leaders in the Australian and Victorian Parliaments.

He has written and spoken widely on topics including Mutualism, Distributism, Labour Movement History and Public Policy. His books include:

• Jobs of Our Own: Building a Stakeholder Society (1999, Pluto Press (Aust) and Comerford and Miller (UK)
• Australia's First Fabians: Middle-Class Radicals, Labour Activists and the Early Labour Movement (1993, Cambridge University Press)
• Whitlam Re-visited: Policy Development, Policies and Outcomes. (Ed with Hugh Emy and Owen Hughes, 1992, Pluto Press)
• Labor's Troubled Times. (With David Burchall,1991, Pluto Press).