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Australian journalist (1941?2003)
Bruce Juddery
(25 September 1941 – 16 January 2003) was an Australian journalist. He wrote primarily for
The Canberra Times
.
Life and career
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Juddery was born in
Tauranga
, New Zealand on 25 September 1941.
[2]
He started his newspaper career writing for New Zealand provincial newspapers, before moving to
Canberra
around 1964 to work at
The Canberra Times
.
[3]
Juddery left
The Canberra Times
on several occasions?on one occasion to work as a public relations adviser at the
Australian National University
and on another to accept a role as secretary of the ACT branch of the
Australian Journalists Association
.
[2]
[4]
During his career he was a regular at the
National Press Club
, where he was well known for his long and involved journalistic questions.
[5]
Juddery opined that the best questions were those that "buggers can't answer and [show] them what bloody bullshit artists they are."
[6]
In 1979, Juddery was awarded the Canadian Award for Journalistic Merit, a national award for Australian journalistic excellence reporting on international affairs in the Pacific region.
[7]
In 1998 Juddery moved to
Iona
in Scotland, with a plan to write his memoirs and travel.
[8]
Juddery died in Canberra on 16 January 2003.
[2]
He was the father of journalist
Mark Juddery
.
Books
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- At the Centre: the Australian Bureaucracy in the 1970s
. Cheshire. 1974.
[9]
- White Collar Power: a History of the ACOA
(1980)
References
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Gorrey, Megan (13 January 2015).
"Canberra author Mark Juddery dies of cancer, aged 43"
.
The Canberra Times
. Fairfax Media. Archived from
the original
on 4 March 2016.
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a
b
c
Waterford, Jack
(11 February 2003). "Hard-bitten scribe of the old school".
The Australian
. News Limited. p. 13.
- ^
Juddery, Bruce
, Australian National University, archived from
the original
on 18 March 2016
- ^
Starck, Nigel (2006).
Life After Death: The Art of the Obituary
. Melbourne University Press. p.
99
.
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Ramsey, Alan (29 January 2003).
"Deadbeats and blimps who were the fierce minds of journalism"
.
The Sydney Morning Herald
. Fairfax Media. Archived from
the original
on 11 November 2012.
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Bird, Megan (7 May 1989).
"Shudders, it's Judders. Chaotic as a person, meticulous as a journalist: that's the abominable Bruce"
.
The Canberra Times
. p. 28.
- ^
"Canadian award for Bruce Juddery"
.
The Canberra Times
. ACT. 15 December 1979. p. 2.
- ^
Cook, Michael (1 May 1998).
"Bruce judders off to Scotland"
.
Woroni
. p. 7.
- ^
"Juddery in book form"
.
The Canberra Times
. 4 April 1974. p. 3.
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