David Lee is Director of the Historical Publications and Research Unit of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and General Editor of the Documents on Australian Foreign Policy series. He is co-author with Russell Parkin of Great White Fleet to Coral Sea: Naval Strategy and the Development of Australia-United States Relations, 1900–1945 (2008) and author of Stanley Melbourne Bruce: Australian Internationalist (2010) and The Second Rush: Mining and the Transformation of Australia (2016).