Malcolm Henry Ellis, CMG (21 August 1890 – 18 January 1969) was an Australian journalist, historian and critic.
Ellis won praise during World War II for his column, "The Service Man", which appeared under the pseudonym "Ek Dum".
[1] In the 1930s and '40s he wrote a series of anti-communist tracts (The Red Road (1932), Socialisation in Ten Years (1947) and The Garden Path (1949)) which warned of the growing influence of communism in the Australian labour movement, and of the nationalisation of banks.
[1] Due to his staunch criticism of the writing of Manning Clark, who in Ellis's view was a Communist fellow traveller, he almost subverted the launching of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
"History without facts", his excoriating and now legendary review in the Sydney Bulletin of the first volume of Clark's A History of Australia, is for many the main legacy of his otherwise extensive works, which include biographies of key early Australian colonial figures, Francis Greenway, John Macarthur and Lachlan Macquarie.