Nicholas Economou is an Australian political scientist. He is a regular commentator in the media on Australian politics, being published in a wide range of Australian and international newspapers. He has also done commentary work for the

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(ABC) and the

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(BBC).

Career and Education

Economou has a

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(with honours), a Master of Arts and a PhD from the

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. In his youth, he was heavily involved in student politics at both Melbourne and Monash universities. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Politics at

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in Clayton. Prior to this, he taught at the then Swinburne Institute and the former Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education (now Monash Gippsland). During 1995 and 1996, he was Monash University Lecturer in Australian Studies at the Sir Robert Menzies Centre at the

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. Economou was critical of former Labor leader

Kim Beazley Kim Christian Beazley (born 14 December 1948) is an Australian former politician and diplomat. He was leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and leader of the opposition from 1996 to 2001 and 2005 to 2006, having previously been a cabinet ...

's performance during 2006 and 2007, and called for the party to replace Beazley with now former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Economou once played bass guitar in a band called Desperate Alliance that, as the Monash University entrant, won the 3RRR Victorian Battle of the Bands competition in 1986.

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