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Books
Brett, J. (2007) Exit Right: The Unravelling of John Howard, Black Inc, Melbourne.

Brett, J. (2007) Robert Menzies' Forgotten People (preprint version pdf - 83 KB: any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden.) This is a revised edition with new Introduction, Melbourne University Press.
First published 1992, Macmillan, Melbourne. Winner 1993 Ernest Scott prize for best book of Australasian History, the 1993 Victorian Premier's Prize for Australian Studies. Shared the 1993 NSW Premier's prize for non-fiction.

Brett, J. and Moran, A. (2006) Ordinary People’s Politics: Australians Talk about Life, Politics and the Future of their Country, Melbourne, Pluto Australia.

Brett, J. (2005) Relaxed and Comfortable: The Liberal Party's Australia, Quarterly Essay number 19, Black Inc, Melbourne. Short-listed 2006 Victorian Premier's Alfred Deakin prize for essay influencing public debate.

Brett, J. (2003) Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Winner Earnest Scott Prize for Australasian History. Short-listed Queensland Premier's prize for non-fiction. http://www.cambridge.edu.au/australianliberals

Brett, J. (2002) Robert Menzies' Forgotten People, Macmillan, Melbourne. This won the 1993 Erenst Scott prize, the 1993 Victorian Premier's Prize for Australian Studies, and shared the 1993 NSW Premier's prize for non-fiction.

Brett, J. (ed.) (1997) Political Lives, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.

Brett, J., Gillespie, J. and Goot, M. (eds) (1994) Developments in Australian Politics, Macmillan Education Australia.

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Refereed Journal Articles
Brett, J. (2007) ‘The Country, the City and the State in the Australian Settlement’, Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol.42, No.1: 1-17. (Preprint version pdf - 98 KB: any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden.)

Brett, J. (2002) 'Class, Party and the Foundations of the Australian Party System: A Revisionist Interpretation', Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol.37, No.1: 39-56.

Brett, J. (2002) 'Meetings, Parliament and Civil Society', Senate Occasional Lecture, Papers on Parliament, No.38, March, pp.43-160.

Brett, J. (2001) 'Retrieving the Partisan History of Australian Citizenship', Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol.36, No.3: 423-437. (Henry Mayer Prize for best article in AJPS.)

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Book Chapters
Brett, J. (2007) 'Introduction to New Edition', in J. Brett Robert Menzies' Forgotten People, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, pp.1-16.

Brett, J. (2007) 'The Turning Tide', in D. Modjeska (ed.) The Best Australian Essays 2007, Black Inc, Melbourne, pp.321-328.

Brett, J. (2007) ‘Political Culture’, in Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts (eds) Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

Brett, J. (2006) 'The Liberal Party', in Andrew Parkin, Government, Politics, Power and Policy in Australia, Pearson Education Australia, pp.206-225.

Brett, J. (2006) ‘Pride’, in Peter Beilharz and Robert Manne (eds) Reflected Light: La Trobe Essays, Black Inc, Melbourne, pp.225-241.

Brett, J. (2006) ‘The Chook in the Australian Unconscious’, in Peter Beilharz and Robert Manne (eds) Reflected Light: La Trobe Essays, Black Inc, Melbourne, 327-332.

Brett, J. (2004) 'The New Liberalism', in Robert Manne (ed.) The Howard Years, Black inc Press, Melbourne, pp.74-93.

Brett, J. (2003) ‘The Tasks of Political Biography’, in Joy Damousi and Robert Reynolds (eds) History on the Couch: Essays in History and Psychoanalysis, Melbourne University Press. Republication of revised version of an essay first published in Judith Brett (ed.) Political Lives, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1997.

Brett, J. (2000) 'Competition and Collegiality', in Tony Coady (ed.) Why Universities Matter, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, pp.144-55.

Brett, J. (2000) 'Stanley Melbourne Bruce', in Michelle Grattan (ed.) Australian Prime Ministers, New Holland Press, Sydney, pp.126-138.

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Non-refereed Articles
Brett, J. (2007) 'Political Culture', in Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts (eds) Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, Melbourne.

Brett, J. (2007) 'Howard Undone', The Monthly, Dec-Jan, No.30.

Brett, J. (2007) 'Why Howard will lose', The Age, special Election Feature, 31 October, pp.12-13.

Brett, J. (2007) 'It's Bennelong Time', The Monthly, September, No.27: 20-26.

Brett, J. (2007) 'Comment: Adversarial politics', The Monthly, July, No.25: 10-13.

Brett, J. (2007) '1949 and all that', The Monthly, May, No.23: 10-13.

Brett, J. (2007) 'The turning tide', The Monthly, March, No.21.

Brett, J. (2007) ‘Life in the Suburbs and the inner city’. Sydney Papers, Sydney Institute.

Brett, J. (2006) ‘Truly, deeply ordinary’, Age Insight, 16 September. Also in SMH of same date.

Brett, J. (2006) 'The contours of the everyday', The Monthly, September, No.16: 50-54.

Brett, J. (2005) 'Response to Correspondence on Quarterly Essay', No.19, Quarterly Essay No.20, pp.90-93.

Brett, J. (2002) 'Meetings, Parliament and Civil Society', Senate Occasional Lecture, Papers on Parliament, No.38, March, pp.43-160.

Brett, J. (1998) ‘Paul Keating’, ‘The Petrov Affair’  in  Graeme Davison, John Hirst and Stuart Macintyre (eds),  Oxford Companion to Australian History, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp.361-2; 502-3.

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