Judith Brett is an Emeritus Professor of Politics at La Trobe University. Her books include The Enigmatic Mr Deakin (2017) and Doing Politics: Writing on Public Life (2021).
      
    
  
  
          
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      Captains unpicked
    
    
      Judith Brett 
    
    
      3 February 2023    
    
      What impact do biographies of living politicians have on their subjects?
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
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      Twin passions
    
    
      Judith Brett 
    
    
      8 July 2020    
    
      Books | Internationally renowned Australian archaeologist V. Gordon Childe was also deeply involved in labour politics
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      How Hamer made it happen
    
    
      Judith Brett 
    
    
      27 October 2014    
    
      Dick Hamer’s election as Victorian Liberal leader was a seachange in the state’s politics and culture, writes Judith Brett    
  
                
          
          
  
    
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