Judith Margaret Brett | |
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| Born | 1949 (age 76–77) 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 Altman1 |
| 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.23 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
Bibliography
As author
- Brett, Judith, Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class (2003), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-53634-9
- with Anthony Moran, Ordinary Peoples' Politics (2006), Pluto Press Australia, ISBN 978-1-864-03257-4
- — 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, ISBN 978-1-925-003 260
- — Robert Menzies' Forgotten People (2007), Melbourne University Press, ISBN 978-0-522-85391-9
- — The Enigmatic Mr Deakin (2018), Text Publishing, ISBN 978-1-925-60371-2
- — From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting (2019), Text Publishing, ISBN 978-1-925-60384-2
- — Fearless Beatrice Faust: Sex, Feminism and Body Politics (2024), Text Publishing, ISBN 978192305831610
As editor
- Brett, Judith, Political Lives (1997) Allen & Unwin, ISBN 978-1-74269-679-9
Journal articles and Quarterly Essays
- Quarterly Essay 19 Relaxed & Comfortable: The Liberal Party's Australia (2005) ISBN 978-1-86395-094-7
- Quarterly Essay 28 Exit Right: The Unravelling of John Howard (2007) ISBN 978-1-86395-111-1
- Quarterly Essay 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. (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) ISBN 978-1-76064-229-7
References
References
- "Judith Brett". La Trobe University.
- "The origins of the beloved democracy sausage? It's a long-time love affair", SBS News. Retrieved 7 June 2022..
- "The end of certainty: Reeling Liberals look to rebuilding from wreckage", The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 7 June 2022..
- "Staff profile". La Trobe University. Archived from the original on 23 June 2011.
- Judith Brett. Doing Politics: Writing on Public Life. Text Publishing, 2021, p. 255
- 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.
- "For Australian voters, a meaty decision" by Michael E. Miller and Frances Vinall, 18 May 2022, The Washington Post. Retrieved 7 June 2022..
- "2019 Queensland Literary Awards Winners and Finalists". State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
- "Member of the Order of Australia (AM) entry for Dr Judith Margaret Brett". Australian Honours Database. Canberra, Australia: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 26 January 2023. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
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- Brett, Judith (2024). Fearless Beatrice Faust: Sex, Feminism and Body Politics. Text Publishing. ISBN 9781923058316. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
- Judith Brett. "Meet the woman who turned female votes into political dynamite" (edited extract). ABC News (Australia). Retrieved 20 April 2025.