Judith Brett (born 1949, Melbourne) is an Emeritus Professor of

politics Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studie ...

La Trobe University La Trobe University is a public university, public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. Its main campus is located in the suburb of Bundoora, Victoria, Bundoora. The university was established in 196 ...

, 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 Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (; 1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929) was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist. Early life Hofmannsthal was born in Landstraße, Vienna, the son of an upper-class ...

. Brett's 2017 biography of

Alfred Deakin Alfred Deakin (3 August 1856 – 7 October 1919) was an Australian politician who served as the second Prime Minister of Australia. He was a leader of the movement for Federation, which occurred in 1901. During his three terms as prime ministe ...

won the 2018

National Biography Award The National Biography Award, established in Australia in 1996, is awarded for the best published work of biographical or autobiographical writing by an Australian. It aims "to encourage the highest standards of writing biography and autobiography ...

. Her next book, ''From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia got Compulsory Voting,'' was shortlisted for the 2019

Queensland Literary Awards The Queensland Literary Awards is an awards program established in 2012 by the Queensland literary community, funded by sponsors and administered by the State Library of Queensland. Like the former Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, the QLAs ...

University of Southern Queensland History Book Award.

Bibliography

As author

*Brett, Judith, ''Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class'' (2003), Cambridge University Press, *Brett, Judith and Anthony Moran, ''Ordinary Peoples' Politics'' (2006), Pluto Press Australia, *Brett, Judith, ''Unlocking the History of the Australasian Kuo Min Tang 1911-2013,'' (2013) Australian Scholarly Publishing, *Brett, Judith, ''Robert Menzies' Forgotten People'' (2007), Melbourne University Press, *Brett, Judith, ''The Enigmatic Mr Deakin'' (2018), Text Publishing Company, *Brett, Judith, ''From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting'' (2019), Text Publishing Company,

As editor

*Brett, Judith, ''Political Lives'' (1997) Allen & Unwin,

Journal articles and Quarterly Essays

*''QE 19 Relaxed & Comfortable: The Liberal Party's Australia'' (2005) *''QE 28 Exit Right: The Unravelling of John Howard'' (2007) *''QE 42 Fair Share: Country and City in Australia'' (2011) *Online version is titled "Must we choose between climate-change action and freedom of speech?". *''QE 78 The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia's Future'' (2020)

References

External links

Brett's profile at La Trobe University
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