John A. Tully

John A. Tully is an Australian historian and novelist.

Biography Tully was born on Tyneside in northern England in 1947 and is descended from English and Irish forebears. He is a socialist and was an active trade unionist during the many years he worked as a rigger in construction and heavy industry before gaining his doctorate and becoming an academic. Tully is an Honorary Professor in the College of Arts and Education at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of eleven published books and a number of articles, book reviews and short stories. His books have been reviewed in several notable publications, including the Cleveland Review of Books. Tully lived for many years in the inner western Melbourne suburb of Yarraville. He now lives at Dover in the far south of Tasmania, the state in which he grew up.

Tully is an active supporter of the Kurdish freedom struggle. In 2021, he publicly called for the release of Abdullah Öcalan and for the Kurdistan Workers' Party to be de-proscribed as a terrorist group by the Australian Government.