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Judith Brett
Australian political scientist
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]