Judith Brett (born 1949, Melbourne) is an Emeritus Professor of politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.[1][2] 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 .[3]

Her PhD from Melbourne University’s Politics Department in the 1970s was on Austrian fin-de-siècle poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal.[4]

Brett's 2017 biography of Alfred Deakin won the 2018 National Biography Award.[5] Her next book, From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia got Compulsory Voting,[6] was shortlisted for the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards University of Southern Queensland History Book Award.[7]

Bibliography

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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.[8]
• QE 78 The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia's Future (2020) ISBN 978-1-76064-229-7

References

External links

• Brett's profile at La Trobe University

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