In 1941 Hasluck was recruited to the staff of the federal Department of External Affairs, and served on Australian delegations to several international conferences, including the San Francisco Conference which founded the United Nations.
Hasluck was briefly Minister for Defence in 1963-64, and then became Minister for External Affairs.
Hasluck retired to Perth where he remained active in cultural and political affairs until his death in 1993.
Freshwater Bay Press was established in 1939 by Paul and AlexandraHasluck at their home in Claremont, Western Australia.
The poet has published with modesty and reticence, and in consequence it is only now with rigorous verse allied to metaphysical speculation that the activities of the private man seem more important than those of the politician and the public dignitary...
The Haslucks of 1984, going about their affairs in a sort of family culture in the Freshwater Bay area of Perth, are one of a kind, at least to my knowledge.
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Hasluck first became a federal seat at the 2001 election and was named after the highly respected and influential Liberals Sir Paul and Dame AlexandraHasluck.
Dame Alexandra was a noted historian and Sir Paul succeeded in several careers, including as a journalist, diplomat, academic and bureaucrat, before being elected as a federal member of parliament in 1949.
The Haslucks were known to people of all political persuasions as deeply intelligent and compassionate people.
Sir Paul Meernaa Caedwalla Hasluck, journalist, government minister and Governor General of Australia, had a long and distinguished career in public life.
Dame Alexandra Margaret Martin Hasluck was born in Perth, Western Australia on 26 August 1908.
Alexandra (or âAlixâ, as she was known) attended Perth College and the University of Western Australia, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree.
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New edition of AlexandraHasluck's classic study of deportation to colonial Australia
The letters written by Myra Sykes to her husband William, who was sentenced to penal servitude, tell a moving tale of heartbreak and longing and give an extraordinary insight into the effect of convict life upon the human spirit.
AlexandraHasluck is the author of many other books including Audrey Tennyson's Vice Regal Days (1978), and Portrait in A Mirror (1981).
Name Derivation: Named after Sir Paul Hasluck 1905-93, Diplomat, Cabinet Minister and the first Western Australian born Governor-General of Australia and his wife Dame AlexandraHasluck 1908-93, a noted author.
Area and Location Description: Hasluck covers an area of approximately 227 sq km from West Swan in the north to Gosnells in the south and is bordered by the foothills of the Darling Range to the east and the Midland to Kwinana freight rail line to the west.
The division includes the majority of the City of Gosnells, the western portion of the Shire of Kalamunda and parts of the Shire of Mundaring and City of Swan.
It was not until 1960 that the first published history of the convict period in Western Australia - 1850-1868 - made its appearance under the title of Unwilling Emigrants (AlexandraHasluck).
AlexandraHasluck, the author of Unwilling Emigrants, and the only published history of the convict period in Western Australia.
There was a time - fifty years ago and less - when, as a people, Australian were ashamed of their beginnings, but today a more sensible attitude has been adopted; so much so that to have a convict forbear is almost a sign of distinction.
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The book is dedicated to the Officers of the Probation Service.
Hasluck reconstructs the life of a convict based on letters sent to the convict and research in Australia and England.
The book includes a bibliography of various references in both countries.
www.kenscott.com /prisons/biblio.htm (530 words)
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The Velvicks had previously been convicted for assaulting Aboriginal people and coloured seamen.
AlexandraHasluck has also argued that a desire to steal the provisions was an important motive in the attack
Since Moore had little knowledge of Yagan's native language, Hasluck suggests that this conjecture is probably more indicative of "a feeling of conscience on the part of the white men" than an accurate rendering of Yagan's state of mind.
