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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.

Sturgess was also Associate Producer for the BBC Television program The Republic of Oz with former Primer Minister Bob Hawke.[6]

Sturgess was the Originator, Co-Director, Co-Writer, Interviewer & Researcher for the SBS's three-part television series on the Howard government Liberal Rule: The Politics that Changed Australia (2009).[7] The series won the AFI Award for Best Documentary Series 2010,[8] and won the Australia Directors Guild award for Best Direction in a Documentary Series 2010.[9]

Radio

Notable broadcasts on the ABC:

Judging the World: Law and Politics in the World's Leading Courts 1986, 6 hour-long programs.[10]

Judges on Judging, 1986, 5-part interview series with the world's leading judges.[11]

Prime Minister, 1980, 6-hour investigation of the office of Prime Minister in the post war period.[12]

Federation, 1979, 2-part series examining the political economy of Australian Federation.[13]

The Great Depression, 1977, 8-part oral history account of the 1930s economic crash.[14]

Documentaries on other subjects include:

Nicaragua; Mexican Oil; Chile; Global Corporations; Human Rights; Abortion 'Theolegalogy'; Science Politics & The Bomb; Medical Malpractice; November 11; The Great War; Phar Lap; [15] Ned Kelly; [16][17]Donald Bradman; Aboriginal Land Rights; Unemployment; Alcoholism; Managing the Media.[18]

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).[19][20][21] 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,[22] 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.[22]

Bob Hawke, The Hawke Memoirs (Port Melbourne, Vic: Heinemann Australia, 1994).[23][24] Sturgess was a writer and researcher for The Hawke Memoirs.[25][26]

"Garry Sturgess, was both diligent and patient throughout and I am deeply indebted to him." Bob Hawke[26]

Garry Sturgess and Bill Birnbauer, The Journalist Who Laughed (Richmond Victoria: Hutchinson, 1983).[27][28]

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).[29][30][31]

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.[32][33][34]

Film

Sturgess is the director, editor and creator of Barry Jones In Search of Lost Time – A Film Story (2018)[35][36] about the inspirational Australian polymath, politician and public intellectual Barry Jones. The film had screenings in Canberra, Melbourne (six-week season at Cinema Nova),[37] Jerusalem[38] and London.[39] Barry Jones In Search of Lost Time was screened at the 2019 Portobello Film Festival,[39] and was a finalist for Best Documentary.[40]

Articles

Letter From Washington, Victorian Bar News, No. 79, Summer 1991, about the Justice Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings.[41]

  1. ^ "Sturgess Collection". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  2. ^ 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)
  3. ^ "Labor In Power (1993) - The Screen Guide - Screen Australia". www.screenaustralia.gov.au. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  4. ^ "'Labor in Power' takes out Walkley". Canberra Times. 1993-12-02. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  5. ^ "Australian Television: 1994-1997 Logie Awards". www.australiantelevision.net. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  6. ^ Assignment Special: The Republic of Oz (Documentary), Bob Hawke, Andrew Olle, Bronwyn Bishop, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 1993-09-13, retrieved 2024-01-29{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. ^ Liberal Rule: The Politics That Changed Australia (Documentary), John Howard, Stan Howard, Nick Torrens Film Productions Pty. Ltd., 2009-07-21, retrieved 2024-01-29{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  8. ^ "2010 Australian Film Institute Awards", Wikipedia, 2023-12-22, retrieved 2024-01-29
  9. ^ "Showreelfinder - Australian Directors Guild Awards 2010". www.showreelfinder.com. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  10. ^ "Memories of a year spent in France". Canberra Times. 1986-08-18. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  11. ^ "Sturgess Collection". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  12. ^ "Sturgess Collection". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  13. ^ "Sturgess Collection". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  14. ^ "Sturgess Collection". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  15. ^ "Documentary about Phar Lap recorded by Garry Sturgess for the Garry Sturgess collection - Catalogue | National Library of Australia". catalogue.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  16. ^ "Ned Kelly documentary by Garry Sturgess for the Garry Sturgess collection - Catalogue | National Library of Australia". catalogue.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  17. ^ "Songs and other material related to Ned Kelly including Jerilderie letter in Garry Sturgess collection - Catalogue | National Library of Australia". catalogue.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  18. ^ "Sturgess Collection". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  19. ^ "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.
  20. ^ Sturgess, Garry; Chubb, Philip (1988). Judging the World: Law and Politics in the World's Leading Courts. Butterworths. ISBN 978-0-409-30116-8.
  21. ^ "[Judging the World] | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  22. ^ 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)
  23. ^ "The Hawke memoirs / Bob Hawke - Catalogue | National Library of Australia". catalogue.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  24. ^ Hawke, Bob (1994). The Hawke Memoirs. Penguin Random House. ISBN 978-0-434-31391-4.
  25. ^ Black, Joshua (2020-10-14). "A Life Triumphantly Well Written: Producing the Hawke Legacy, 1979–2019". ANU Historical Journal II. 2: 91. doi:10.22459/anuhjii.2020.05. ISSN 2652-015X.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  26. ^ a b Hawke, Robert James Lee (1994). The Hawke memoirs. Port Melbourne, Vic: Heinemann Australia. pp. xi. ISBN 978-0-85561-502-4.
  27. ^ "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.
  28. ^ Sturgess, Garry; Birnbauer, Bill (1983). The Journalist who Laughed. Hutchinson of Australia. ISBN 978-0-09-148470-5.
  29. ^ 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.
  30. ^ "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
  31. ^ 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)
  32. ^ Scutt, Jocelynne A. (1987). Lionel Murphy: A Radical Judge. McCulloch Publishing. ISBN 978-0-949646-17-0.
  33. ^ "Book on Murphy damns the media". Canberra Times. 1987-06-13. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  34. ^ "Lionel Murphy and "The Age Tapes"". Tribune. 1987-09-02. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  35. ^ Sturgess, Garry (2018-04-22), Barry Jones in Search of Lost Time: A Film Story (Biography), GKCE Media, retrieved 2024-01-29
  36. ^ "Barry Jones In Search of Lost Time - A Film Story (2018) - The Screen Guide - Screen Australia". www.screenaustralia.gov.au. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  37. ^ web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20180503035633/http://cinemanova.com.au/films/barry-jones-in-search-of-lost-time-a-film-story. Retrieved 2024-01-29. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  38. ^ Sturgess, Garry (DEC 20, 2018, 9:54 PM). "Play it Sam – Political Film Stories". The Times of Israel. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  39. ^ a b "PORTOBELLO FILM FESTIVAL 2019" (PDF). Portobello Film Festival.
  40. ^ "PORTOBELLO FILM FESTIVAL LONDON". www.portobellofilmfestival.com. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  41. ^ Sturgess, Garry (November 16, 1991). "Letter From Washington" (PDF). Victorian Bar News. 79 (Summer): 66–70 – via Victorian Bar News.
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