Judith Brett

Judith Margaret Brett
Born	1949 (age 75–76) 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)

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]

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
• Brett, Judith and Anthony Moran, Ordinary Peoples' Politics (2006), Pluto Press Australia, ISBN 978-1-864-03257-4
• Brett, Judith, Unlocking the History of the Australasian Kuo Min Tang 1911-2013, (2013) Australian Scholarly Publishing, ISBN 978-1-925-003 260
• Brett, Judith, Robert Menzies' Forgotten People (2007), Melbourne University Press, ISBN 978-0-522-85391-9
• Brett, Judith, The Enigmatic Mr Deakin (2018), Text Publishing Company, ISBN 978-1-925-60371-2
• Brett, Judith, From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting (2019), Text Publishing Company, ISBN 978-1-925-60384-2

As editor

• Brett, Judith, Political Lives (1997) Allen & Unwin, ISBN 978-1-74269-679-9

Journal articles and Quarterly Essays

• QE 19 Relaxed & Comfortable: The Liberal Party's Australia (2005) ISBN 978-1-86395-094-7
• QE 28 Exit Right: The Unravelling of John Howard (2007) ISBN 978-1-86395-111-1
• QE 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.[10]
• QE 78 The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia's Future (2020) ISBN 978-1-76064-229-7

References

1. "Judith Brett".
2. "The origins of the beloved democracy sausage? It's a long-time love affair" SBS News. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
3. "The end of certainty: Reeling Liberals look to rebuilding from wreckage" Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
4. "Staff profile, La Trobe University". www.latrobe.edu.au. Archived from the original on 23 June 2011.
5. Judith Brett 'Doing Politics: Writing on Public Life' Text Publishing, 2021, p.255
6. Convery, Stephanie (6 August 2018). "Judith Brett wins National Biography award for 'profound' look at life of Alfred Deakin". the Guardian. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
7. "For Australian voters, a meaty decision" Washington Post. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
8. "2019 Queensland Literary Awards Winners and Finalists". State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
9. "Australia Day 2023 Honours: Full list". The Sydney Morning Herald. 25 January 2023. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
10. Online version is titled "Must we choose between climate-change action and freedom of speech?".

External links

• Brett's profile at La Trobe University