Garry Sturgess
Garry E. Sturgess
Garry Ellis Sturgess grew up in Melbourne and is a graduate of Monash University. He practised as a barrister in 1985–89, but for most of his career he has worked in the media and publishing. From 1977 to 1980 he was a freelance reporter and documentary-maker in Australia and the United States. He was the legal correspondent for The Age in 1980–84 and was the presenter of The Law Report on ABC Radio National in 1984–85. He worked as a freelance reporter and correspondent in Washington in 1989–91. In 1994 he founded the communications provider Global Vision Media Pty Ltd and in 2000 he established Explore Australia Network Pty Ltd, an online travel and tourism publisher.[1]
Career
Broadcasts
Television
Sturgess was a Senior Researcher for the ABC's five-part television series on the Hawke/Keating governments Labor in Power (1993).[2][3] The series won the 1993 Gold Walkley,[4] and the 1994 Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Factual or Documentary Program.[5] Sturgess also produced the BBC Television's version of Labor in Power.
Publications
Books
Garry Sturgess and Philip Chubb, Judging the World: Law and Politics in the World’s Leading Courts (Australia : Richmond, Vic: Butterworths ; W. Heinemann, 1988).[6][7][8] This includes Judging By What They Say: Interviews with 42 of the World's Leading Judges, (Butterworths Pty. Ltd., William Heinemann, Sydney, London, Singapore, Toronto, Wellington, 1988).
The book was launched in Australia by the Governor General, Sir Ninian Stephen,[9] and in London by Geoffrey Robertson, KC.
"I doubt whether Australian authorship or publishing has seen before any so daring and ambitious a project as the creation of this book, "Judging the World", represents. Certainly nothing like it has ever been attempted before in the realm of legal authorship or publishing on this continent, and I know of no other in the English language with its wide sweep and all-embracing grasp of subject matter..
The remarkable thing about this book is that it does not confine itself either to one broad system of law, the common law courts familiar to us, nor even to national courts but ranges over the whole field of judicial work, covering seventeen major courts world-wide, interviewing judges from each of them and including, in addition to national courts, the international court at the Hague, the European Communities Court of Justice and two international courts of human rights, as well as the European Commission of Human Rights...
The authors modestly describe the book as a work of journalism, conceived as a journalistic exercise. What a wonderful world it would be if all journalism reached these heights. I proudly declare "Judging the World" duly launched.
Sir Ninian Stephen, Melbourne, 15 November 1988.[9]
Garry Sturgess and Bill Birnbauer, The Journalist Who Laughed (Richmond Victoria: Hutchinson, 1983).[10][11]
C. G. Weeramantry, Antony Anghie, and Garry Sturgess, eds., Legal Visions of the 21st Century: Essays in Honour of Judge Christopher Weeramantry (The Hague ; Boston: Kluwer Law International, 1998).[12][13][14]
Garry Sturgess, "Murphy and the Media" in Lionel Murphy: A Radical Judge, an appraisal by eleven prominent Australians, eds. Jocelynne A. Scutt (Carlton, Vic.: McCulloch Pub. in association with the Macmillan Co. of Australia, 1987), 211-229.[15][16][17]
- ^ "Sturgess Collection". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
- ^ Labor in Power (Documentary), Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, Gareth Evans, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), 1993-06-08, retrieved 2024-01-29
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "Labor In Power (1993) - The Screen Guide - Screen Australia". www.screenaustralia.gov.au. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
- ^ "'Labor in Power' takes out Walkley". Canberra Times. 1993-12-02. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
- ^ "Australian Television: 1994-1997 Logie Awards". www.australiantelevision.net. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
- ^ "Judging the world : law and politics in the world's leading courts / Garry Sturgess, Philip Chubb - Catalogue | National Library of Australia". catalogue.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
- ^ Sturgess, Garry; Chubb, Philip (1988). Judging the World: Law and Politics in the World's Leading Courts. Butterworths. ISBN 978-0-409-30116-8.
- ^ "[Judging the World] | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
- ^ a b "JUDGING THE WORLD Address by His Excellency The Right Honourable Sir Ninian Stephen, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, on the occasion of the launching of the book "Judging the World: Law and Politics in the World's Leading Courts" in Melbourne on Tuesday, 15 November 1988" (PDF). Victorian Bar News. 67 (Summer): 41. 1988 – via Victorian Bar News.
{{cite journal}}: line feed character in|title=at position 18 (help) - ^ "The journalist who laughed / Garry Sturgess and Bill Birnbauer ; illustrated by Vane Lindesay - Catalogue | National Library of Australia". catalogue.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
- ^ Sturgess, Garry; Birnbauer, Bill (1983). The Journalist who Laughed. Hutchinson of Australia. ISBN 978-0-09-148470-5.
- ^ Anghie, Antony; Sturgess, Garry (1998-10-29). Legal Visions of the 21st Century: Essays in Honour of Judge Christopher Weeramantry. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. ISBN 978-90-411-1116-6.
- ^ "Legal Visions of the 21st Century: Essays in Honour of Judge Christopher Weeramantry", Legal Visions of the 21st Century: Essays in Honour of Judge Christopher Weeramantry, Brill Nijhoff, 2023-12-11, ISBN 978-90-04-64099-3, retrieved 2024-01-29
- ^ Weeramantry, Christopher Gregory (2012). Towards One World: The Memoirs of Judge C.G Weeramantry Volume II: The Australian Years. Moratuwa: OPRO Printing & Publishing Solutions (Pvt) Ltd. p. 56. ISBN 9789550304066.
{{cite book}}: line feed character in|title=at position 57 (help) - ^ Scutt, Jocelynne A. (1987). Lionel Murphy: A Radical Judge. McCulloch Publishing. ISBN 978-0-949646-17-0.
- ^ "Book on Murphy damns the media". Canberra Times. 1987-06-13. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
- ^ "Lionel Murphy and "The Age Tapes"". Tribune. 1987-09-02. Retrieved 2024-01-29.