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Judith Brett

Judith Brett

Judith Brett is a political historian and Emeritus Professor of Politics at Latrobe University. Her most recent book is From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia got compulsory voting (Text, 2019). Her biography of Alfred Deakin, The Enigmatic Mr Deakin, won the 2018 National Biography Award (Text, 2017).

Judith Brett reviews 'My Place' by Sally Morgan

Published in August 1987, no, 93
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Judith Brett reviews 'The Ministers’ Minders: Personal advisers in national government' by James Walter

Published in September 1986, no. 84
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Judith Brett reviews 'A Politics of Poetry: Reconstituting social democracy' by Dennis Altman

Published in November 1988, no. 106
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Judith Brett reviews 'A Bigger Picture' by Malcolm Turnbull

Published in June–July 2020, no. 422
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Judith Brett reviews 'From Fraser to Hawke: Australian Public Policies in the 1980s' by Brian Head and Allan Patience and 'The Hawke–Keating Hijack: the ALP in Transition' by Dean Jaensch

Published in October 1989, no. 115
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Judith Brett reviews 'George Seddon: Selected Writings' edited by Andrea Gaynor

Published in December 2019, no. 417
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Judith Brett reviews 'The Politics of the Common Good: Dispossession in Australia' by Jane R. Goodall

Published in October 2019, no. 415
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