Bruce Juddery (25 September 194116 January 2003) was an Australian journalist. He wrote primarily for ''

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''.

Life and career

Juddery was born in

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, New Zealand on 25 September 1941. He started his newspaper career writing for New Zealand provincial newspapers, before moving to

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around 1964 to work at ''The Canberra Times''. Juddery left ''The Canberra Times'' on several occasions—on one occasion to work as a public relations adviser at the

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and on another to accept a role as secretary of the ACT branch of the

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. During his career he was a regular at the

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, where he was well known for his long and involved journalistic questions. Juddery opined that the best questions were those that "buggers can't answer and

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them what bloody bullshit artists they are." In 1979, Juddery was awarded the Canadian Award for Journalistic Merit, a national award for Australian journalistic excellence reporting on international affairs in the Pacific region. In 1998 Juddery moved to

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in Scotland, with a plan to write his memoirs and travel. Juddery died in Canberra on 16 January 2003. He was the father of journalist

Mark Juddery Stanford Mark Juddery (8 March 197113 January 2015) was an Australian freelance journalist, author, humorist and columnist for ''The Canberra Times''. His work also appeared in such newspapers as ''The Australian'' and ''The Sydney Morning Herald ...

Books

* *''White Collar Power: a History of the ACOA'' (1980)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Juddery, Bruce 1941 births 2003 deaths New Zealand emigrants to Australia Australian National University alumni The Canberra Times people 20th-century Australian journalists