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Judith Brett

Judith Margaret Brett (born 1949, Melbourne) is an Emeritus Professor of politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. 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.

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

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

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

Bibliography

As author

  • Brett, Judith, Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class (2003), Cambridge University Press,
  • with Anthony Moran, Ordinary Peoples' Politics (2006), Pluto Press Australia,
  • — 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,
  • — Robert Menzies' Forgotten People (2007), Melbourne University Press,
  • — The Enigmatic Mr Deakin (2018), Text Publishing,
  • — From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting (2019), Text Publishing,
  • — Fearless Beatrice Faust: Sex, Feminism and Body Politics (2024), Text Publishing,

As editor

  • Brett, Judith, Political Lives (1997) Allen & Unwin,

Journal articles and Quarterly Essays

  • Quarterly Essay 19 Relaxed & Comfortable: The Liberal Party's Australia (2005)
  • Quarterly Essay 28 Exit Right: The Unravelling of John Howard (2007)
  • Quarterly Essay 42 Fair Share: Country and City in Australia (2011)
  • (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)

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