Born in Melbourne? Origins of Australian Political Science

In a pioneering academic discussion of Australian politics written in 1913, William Harrison Moore reinforced the image of Australia as an increasingly autonomous part of a slowly evolving but essentially liberal British empire. In this 34 page account of “Political Systems of Australia” published in George H. Knibbs, ed., Federal Handbook (Melbourne, 1914), the Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Melbourne arguably generated...