John Warhurst (academic)

John Lewis Warhurst, AO, (born 29 February 1948) is a noted Australian academic and a prominent leader within the Australian Republican Movement. He currently holds the positions of Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University[1] and Deputy Chair of the Republican Movement.[2]

Biography

Warhurst graduated from Saint Ignatius' College, Adelaide in 1965 and studied politics and economics at Flinders University, graduating in 1972. He left South Australia soon after, working in a number of different states, before teaching overseas at the University of London. He moved back to Australia in 1985 to teach at the University of New England, where he was professor of politics for 8 years. In 1993, Warhurst took up the prestigious post of Professor of Political Science at ANU, a position he held until 2008. He currently teaches there, as Emeritus Professor.

Republicanism

Warhurst is probably best known as one of Australia’s most prominent republicans. He began advocating a republic in the early 1970s as a young academic and joined the Australian Republican Movement in the mid-1990s. He first became significantly active as part of the ACT ARM campaign team for the 1997 Constitutional Convention elections. Within the leadership of the ARM, he served first as ACT Convenor (2001–2004), and then as national Chair of the Movement (2002–2005).

In 2005, Warhurst stood aside as Chair. In 2007, he was elected as Deputy Chair and in 2008 was again elected as Convenor of the ACT branch. He currently holds both positions. Additionally, for several years he has been – along with the current Chair – one of the ARM’s two main media spokespersons, with regular appearances on television and radio. He also writes a weekly column on public affairs for the Canberra Times.

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gollark: Self-driving cars should probably not be using the mobile/cell network just for communicating with nearby cars, since it adds extra latency and complexity over some direct P2P thing, and they can't really do things which rely on constant high-bandwidth networking to the internet generally, since they need to be able to not crash if they go into a tunnel or network dead zone or something.
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References
  1. "Emeritus Professor John Warhurst". School of Politics & International Relations - ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences.
  2. "John Warhurst - Author and political commentator". Compass. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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