Dr Chris Wallace is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at the School of History, Australian National University, Canberra, specialising in modern and contemporary political history. She was a longstanding member of the Canberra Press Gallery where she worked for the Australian Financial Review, The Australian, Channel 7 and ABC TV. Chris is the author of several books including the biography Greer, Untamed Shrew and The Private Don. Her most recent book is How to Win an Election.