According to his biographer Geoffrey Serle, in the 1920s Sir John Monash was ‘broadly accepted, not just in Victoria, as the greatest living Australian’. Monash is still, rightly, lauded as our greatest military mind. Less well known is his role in building the energy infrastructure of Victoria, including its coal-fired power plants.
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