Michael D Barr is an Australian academic who is known for his work on the study of Singapore and founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew.
Academic career Barr is a historian of Singapore.Barr, Michael D. "Medical Savings Account in Singapore: A Critical Inquiry." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 26, no. 4 (2001): 715-716
An article written by Barr for the East Asia Forum was issued issued a correction order under Singapore's fake news law, the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA). The publication's website was later blocked in Singapore for non-compliance with the order.
He is currently Associate Professor at Flinders University. He was described in the London Review of Books as "the leading historian of modern Singapore" and in Channel News Asia as an "expert on Singapore politics and history".
Barr was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2018.
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Articles
Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Post-War Singapore (2008), eds Michael D. Barr and Carl A. Trocki, Singapore: NUS Press. Michael D. Barr (2010), "Marxists in Singapore? Lee Kuan Yew's Campaign against Catholic Social Justice Activists in the 1980s", Critical Asian Studies, 43(3), 335–362.
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