Judith Brett

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Judith Margaret Brett
Born1949 (age 76–77)
Melbourne, Australia
AwardsErnest Scott Prize (1993, 2004)
Member of the Order of Australia (2023)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne (BA) (PhD)
University of Oxford (DipSocAnth)
ThesisThe Milk of Language: A Psycho-Analytic Interpretation of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Chandos Crisis (1980)
InfluencesDennis Altman[1]
Academic work
InstitutionsLa Trobe University (1989–2012)
Main interestsCultural history, political history
Notable worksAustralian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class (2003)
Robert Menzies' Forgotten People (1992)

Judith Margaret Brett AM (born 1949, Melbourne) is an Emeritus Professor of politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.[2][3] She retired from La Trobe in 2012, after a restructuring of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in which the School of which she was head was dismantled.[4]

Her PhD from Melbourne University's Politics Department in the 1970s was on Austrian fin-de-siècle poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal.[5]

Brett's 2017 biography of Alfred Deakin won the 2018 National Biography Award.[6] Her next book, From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia got Compulsory Voting,[7] was shortlisted for the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards University of Southern Queensland History Book Award.[8]

Brett was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2023 Australia Day Honours.[9]

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As author

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  • Brett, Judith, Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class (2003), Cambridge University Press, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • with Anthony Moran, Ordinary Peoples' Politics (2006), Pluto Press Australia, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • — 百年回顧: 中國國民黨駐澳洲總支部歷史文物彙編 [A century of review: A collection of historical relics of the Chinese Kuomintang's Australian branch] / Unlocking the History of the Australasian Kuo Min Tang 1911–2013 (2013), Australian Scholarly Publishing, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • — Robert Menzies' Forgotten People (2007), Melbourne University Press, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • — The Enigmatic Mr Deakin (2018), Text Publishing, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • — From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting (2019), Text Publishing, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • — Fearless Beatrice Faust: Sex, Feminism and Body Politics (2024), Text Publishing , Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[10]

As editor

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  • Brett, Judith, Political Lives (1997) Allen & Unwin, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).

Journal articles and Quarterly Essays

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  • Quarterly Essay 19 Relaxed & Comfortable: The Liberal Party's Australia (2005) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • Quarterly Essay 28 Exit Right: The Unravelling of John Howard (2007) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • Quarterly Essay 42 Fair Share: Country and City in Australia (2011) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  • Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (Online version is titled "Must we choose between climate-change action and freedom of speech?".)
  • Quarterly Essay 78 The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia's Future (2020) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).

References

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  2. ^ "The origins of the beloved democracy sausage? It's a long-time love affair", SBS News. Retrieved 7 June 2022..
  3. ^ "The end of certainty: Reeling Liberals look to rebuilding from wreckage", The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 7 June 2022..
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  5. ^ Judith Brett. Doing Politics: Writing on Public Life. Text Publishing, 2021, p. 255
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  7. ^ "For Australian voters, a meaty decision" by Michael E. Miller and Frances Vinall, 18 May 2022, The Washington Post. Retrieved 7 June 2022..
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