Judith Brett
Australian political scientist and writer (born 1949)
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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]
Member of the Order of Australia (2023)
University of Oxford (DipSocAnth)
Judith Margaret Brett | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1949 (age 76–77) Melbourne, Australia |
| Awards | Ernest Scott Prize (1993, 2004) Member of the Order of Australia (2023) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne (BA) (PhD) University of Oxford (DipSocAnth) |
| Thesis | The Milk of Language: A Psycho-Analytic Interpretation of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Chandos Crisis (1980) |
| Influences | Dennis Altman[1] |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | La Trobe University (1989–2012) |
| Main interests | Cultural history, political history |
| Notable works | Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class (2003) Robert Menzies' Forgotten People (1992) |
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]
Bibliography
As author
- Brett, Judith, Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class (2003), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-53634-9
- with Anthony Moran, Ordinary Peoples' Politics (2006), Pluto Press Australia, ISBN 978-1-864-03257-4
- — 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, ISBN 978-1-925-003 260
- — Robert Menzies' Forgotten People (2007), Melbourne University Press, ISBN 978-0-522-85391-9
- — The Enigmatic Mr Deakin (2018), Text Publishing, ISBN 978-1-925-60371-2
- — From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting (2019), Text Publishing, ISBN 978-1-925-60384-2
- — Fearless Beatrice Faust: Sex, Feminism and Body Politics (2024), Text Publishing , ISBN 9781923058316[10]
As editor
- Brett, Judith, Political Lives (1997) Allen & Unwin, ISBN 978-1-74269-679-9
Journal articles and Quarterly Essays
- Quarterly Essay 19 Relaxed & Comfortable: The Liberal Party's Australia (2005) ISBN 978-1-86395-094-7
- Quarterly Essay 28 Exit Right: The Unravelling of John Howard (2007) ISBN 978-1-86395-111-1
- Quarterly Essay 42 Fair Share: Country and City in Australia (2011) ISBN 978-1-86395-526-3
- — (August 2014). "Freedom, or nothing left to lose". The Nation Reviewed. The Monthly. 103: 8–10. (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) ISBN 978-1-76064-229-7
