Brett, Judith

Judith Brett is one of Australia’s leading political commentators and the author of two previous Quarterly Essays, Exit Right and Relaxed and Comfortable. Her books include the award-winning Robert Menzies’ Forgotten People, Ordinary People’s Politics (with Anthony Moran) and Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard. She is professor of politics at La Trobe University.