William Macmahon Ball,
AC (29 August 1901 – 26 December 1986) was an Australian academic and diplomat. Born in
Casterton, Victoria, he was educated at
Caulfield Grammar School
Caulfield Grammar School is an Independent school, independent, co-educational, Anglican Church of Australia, Anglican, International Baccalaureate, day school, day and boarding school, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1881 as ...
and the
University of Melbourne
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, where he received a
Bachelor of Arts
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degree, Ball studied both psychology and
political science
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as a research fellow at Melbourne and the
London School of Economics
, mottoeng = To understand the causes of things
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £240.8 million (2021)
, budget = £391.1 millio ...
respectively. He then travelled
Europe
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as a Carnegie Travelling Fellow, and during the
Munich crisis
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was the first foreigner allowed to visit
Sachsenhausen concentration camp
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in several years.
He was a notable diplomat, working as an advisor to the Australian delegation at the San Francisco conference of the
United Nations
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in 1945, Australian Minister to
Japan
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, and
British Commonwealth
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representative to the Allied Conference.
He later became a professor of political science at Melbourne University, and was a regular broadcaster on both the
ABC
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and
BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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. He was made a Companion of the
in 1978 "for service to education and learning particularly in field of political science".
, ''William Macmahon Ball: A Memoir'' (1990)
* Ai Kobayashi, ''W. Macmahon Ball: Politics for the People'' (2013)