Cameron Hazlehurst

Dr Cameron Hazlehurst FRSL FRHistS, is an honorary professor in the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University and a foundation principal of The Ethicos Group, a specialist consultancy in public sector ethics and governance. He has held fellowships at Nuffield College and The Queen’s College, Oxford, and The ANU’s Research School of Social Sciences. He was foundation professor and head of the School of Humanities at Queensland University of Technology. He served in senior government posts in Urban and Regional Development and Communications, has undertaken numerous policy consulting and advisory roles, and acted as executive producer or research consultant for several television series. Dr Hazlehurst has published widely on Australian government and political history, including biographical studies of Robert Menzies (Menzies Observed) and Gordon Chalk (Gordon Chalk: A Political Life), the official history of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and studies of the advent of commercial television and satellite broadcasting in Australia.

 

Ten Journeys to Cameron's Farm »

An Australian Tragedy

Authored by: Cameron Hazlehurst
Publication date: August 2015
‘In the whole history of government in Australia, this was the most devastating tragedy.’ Three decades after what he called ‘a dreadful air crash, almost within sight of my windows’ Robert Menzies wrote ‘I shall never forget that terrible hour; I felt that for me the end of the world had come…’ Ten Journeys to Cameron’s Farm tells the lives of the ten men who perished in Duncan Cameron’s Canberra property on 13 August 1940: three Cabinet ministers, the Chief…