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the Consul-General for China, Dr. W.P. After completing his training as a lawyer in 1899, William won the Supreme Court Judges Prize in 1902, and was admitted to practice in 1903. in Australia ended, he settled in Wangaratta to raise his
C. F. Yong, The Chinese in New South Wales and Victoria, 1901-1921 (Ph.D. thesis, Australian National University, 1966). He added, "A certain prejudice among clients against having a Chinese barrister to an extent limited his practice, though instructing solicitors thought very well of him". [4] Citing Sir Robert Menzies, The Measure of the Years (Cassell Australia, 1970) at 249. He also appeared before Justice Lowe after he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Victoria. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the After living in China for many years, he returned to Australia as an adult, but was treated as a prohibited immigrant because he failed a dictation test imposed by the immigration legislation at the time. I am grateful for the opportunity of coming to know more about William Ah Ket. or a night of comedy at the Tivoli with Stiffy & Mo. His father, Ma Ket [], had arrived in Victoria in 1855 to work as a community leader for the Chinese workers in the goldfields of Victoria. 10William Ah Ket Scholarship 2019, Program (9 October 2019). Toylaan, the youngest daughter, died in 2015 at the age of 94. Defying what was expected of Chinese-Australians at the turn of the twentieth century, he studied law and progressed to appear before the High Court of Australia. was a founding member and Grand Master of the East Caulfield
ROMEO Ha az lom hzelked emnek Hinnem lehet, mindjrt rm knt rm. Celebrating Asian Australian Lawyers: From William Ah Ket to Today, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ah-ket-william-4979, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54dd81c6e4b074b4a339bb2e/t/, https://arrow.latrobe.edu.au/store/3/4/5/5/1/public/stories/wahket.htm, https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/145813/2/Morrison%20Oration%2002.pdf. Mr Tang says it shows that, despite his talents, he suffered from a level of discrimination. invited scholars from interstate and overseas to deliver the
. His father had taken him to China when he was about five years old. who had made such a worthy contribution to the history of
William's client, James Minahan, was born in Australia to an Anglo-Australian mother and Chinese father. The dictation test required all immigrants from China to write in English a passage of not less than 50 words that was dictated by a customs officer. Menzies, Owen Dixon, James Tait, and
There is, however, evidence that William was resigned to the associated barriers and limitations that his life involved. Email: [email protected]. Mah was born circa 1870, in China. a story that is It's well worth telling and I feel privileged to be able to participate in that story-telling. master the Confucian skills of reading and writing in the
Andrew Godwin is researching the life and times of William Ah Ket and is working with the descendants of the Ah Ket family for this purpose. Andrew Godwin is researching the life and times of William Ah Ket and is working with the descendants of the Ah Ket family for this purpose. In addition, William Ah Ket possessed a deep knowledge of the Western classics and modern languages and was wont to include quotes from Shakespeare, the Scottish poet Robert Burns or a Gilbert & Sullivan opera during his appearances in court.[14]. Educated in both English and Chinese cultures, he agitated against racial intolerance in Victoria and defended the rights of Victoria`s Chinese community. Ah Ket appeared in another High Court case calledPotter v Minahan.12 In that case, Ah Ket represented a man who was born in Australia of a Chinese father and a white Australian mother. a full primary and secondary education in Wangaratta's public
His father had arrived in Victoria in 1855 and after some years on the goldfields established one of the earliest tobacco-farms on the King River. "In the mid-1880s the colonies decided they were no longer going to naturalise Chinese, and then in 1903 that was enshrined in federal legislation. Despite these achievements, William Ah Ket's story is little-known. and educators against racial discrimination in Australia. The act expressly discriminated against the Chinese and prohibited after-hours work in a factory or work-room where furniture was made or where any Chinese person was at any time employed. "[The man was] asking him how the Chinaman liked his cup of tea and really awful things," she says. The Asian Australian Lawyers Your help would be greatly appreciated. By Andrew GodwinAssociate Director (Asian Commercial Law), Asian Law Centre, Melbourne Law School. well as a tobacco-grower, store-keeper, and property owner. He was also co-founder and
"That's why his story's so important to us.". On top of that work, William also had to deal with racism. Ah Ket appeared in another High Court case called Potter v Minahan.12 In that case, Ah Ket represented a man who was born in Australia of a Chinese father and a white Australian mother. Parliament for the new Republic in 1912. We should have done Medicine.16, There are many more interesting stories and facts that one could relate about William and his legacy. theatre-goers during the "Gay 20s" before the Depression. His father had arrived in Victoria in 1855 and after some years on the goldfields established one of the earliest tobacco-farms on the King River. William Ah Ket [] was born in Wangaratta in the state of Victoria, Australia, in 1876. A former partner of Linklaters Shanghai, Andrew Godwin teaches law at Melbourne Law School in Australia, where he is an associate director of its Asian Law Centre. William Ah Ket as a young man Source: by kind permission of the Ah Ket family, William Ah Ket (1876-1936), barrister, was born on 20 June 1876 at Wangaratta, Victoria, only son and fifth child of Ah Ket, storekeeper and grower and buyer of tobacco, and his wife Hing Ung, who were married in Melbourne in 1864. Your information is being handled in accordance with the. Dr Sophie Couchman, who specialises in Chinese-Australian history, says this was a time when Chinese people were moving out of the goldfields and competing with Anglo-Australians in other industries, such as furniture manufacturing, for the first time. 4The Melbourne University Magazine, Volume 1, Number 1, 1907, 20. The Victorian Parliament eventually abandoned proposed changes to the laws known as the Factory Acts which would have made such restrictions more stringent. He was an excellent after-dinner speaker, a prominent Freemason and a keen punter and golfer. for China in Melbourne in 1913-14 and again in 1917. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. at Saturday's race-meetings in Melbourne, never missing his
His great grand-daughter, Blossom Ah Ket, recalls a family story of a white Australian man taunting the barrister on a train on the way to court. "William Ah Ket is in his teens at this time and he's being brought up to be a smart, educated young man, so he would've seen all this going on.". Life. In the 1970 book The Measure of the Years by Australia's longest-serving prime minister, Robert Menzies, he referred to his colleague and friend Ah Ket as "a phenomenon at the Victorian Bar" but that "a certain prejudice among clients against having a Chinese barrister to an extent limited his practice . His father, Ah Ket, and mother, Hing Ung, had established one of the first tobacco farms on the King River. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Each August since 2017, the William Ah Ket Scholarship committee has accepted applications for the most outstanding research paper on a topic dealing with equality, diversity, and the legal profession or the law from legal trainees, graduates, final year students and lawyers with less than five years of practice. He is also believed to be the first Chinese barrister to practise in Australia. Blossom says. William Ah Ket - A Life of Diversity and Service, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ah-ket-william-4979, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54dd81c6e4b074b4a339bb2e/t/5a1409caf9619a97a1396f77/1511262667464/WILLIAM+AH+KET+launch.pdf, https://arrow.latrobe.edu.au/store/3/4/5/5/1/public/stories/wahket.htm, https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/145813/2/Morrison%20Oration%2002.pdf. opinions expressed in these stories do not necessarily reflect those of La Trobe University
'14 Williams focus on reconciliation is reflected in the Second Morrison Lecture that he delivered in 1933. West enabled him to become one of the few Chinese Australians
[7] William Ah Ket Scholarship 2019, Program (9 October 2019). It is timely to commemorate Williams life because a photo of William will soon be unveiled in the Portrait Gallery of the Victorian Bar in Melbourne, Australia. The test required all immigrants from China to write in English or another European language a passage of approximately 50 words, dictated by a customs officer. This included a number of cases, Bishop v Chung Brothers, Potter v Minahan and Ingham v Hie Lee, that involved challenges to legislation that discriminated against those of Chinese origin. So commences the biography of William Ah Ket [] in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.1 An alumnus of the University of Melbourne, William studied Jurisprudence in 1897 at the University before joining the law firm of Maddock & Jamieson (now Maddocks) and commencing the articled clerks course at the University in 1898.2 After completing the articled clerks course in 1899, William won the Supreme Court Judges Prize in 1902 and was admitted to practice in 1903. In the lecture, William reflected on whether there was a real difference between the culture of the East and that of the West and drew parallels between Western culture and Confucianism. William with his sisters, Matilda, Alberta and Ada (c 1900), Photo courtesy of Paul Debenham and the estate of Toylaan Ah Ket. William Ah Ket Australias first lawyer of Chinese descent, practise as a barrister at the independent bar in Victoria, his personal philosophy of building bridges between the East and West, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54dd81c6e4b074b4a339bb2e/t/5a1409caf9619a97a1396f77/1511262667464/WILLIAM+AH+KET+launch.pdf, https://arrow.latrobe.edu.au/store/3/4/5/5/1/public/stories/wahket.htm, https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/145813/2/Morrison%20Oration%2002.pdf. It is fitting and proper that this scholarship is named for him.9, In the program notes, the recipient of the 2019 William Ah Ket Scholarship, Ms Tienyi Long, Legal and Governance Officer at Glen Eira City Council, Victoria writes that [l]awyers, courts and legislators continue to grapple with the question of how equal justice can be achieved for diverse communities in a multifaceted and increasingly complex societydiversity intelligence is an essential skill to facilitate equal access to justice for diverse communitiesit should be included as part of mandatory continuing professional development requirements under the Legal Profession Uniform Law.10. The rise of China has everyone talking. for reciting pithy quotations from either Shakespeare, Robby
William Ah Ket was born on month day 1876, at birth place, to Mah Ah Ket and Hing Ah Ket (born Ung). Crossing Time: Australia's transgender historypart 1. William Ah Ket (, 20 June 1876 - 6 August 1936) was a noted Australian barrister. He was a co-founder of the Australian-Chinese Association and one of two delegates from the Chinese community in Australia to the opening of the Chinese national parliament of 1912. [3] He was neither appointed Silk nor a judge. president of the Australian-Chinese Association, co-founder
including Carole Hinchcliff, helping me with my researchfor into William Ah Ket and also for promoting William's legacy and story generally. Noting that music had a peculiar charm for Confucius, he mused that had Confucius lived then, it is quite likely that he would have found in the music of the bagpipes something particularly stirring and satisfying to the soul.[12] William would have had an affinity with bagpipes as his wife, Gertrude Bullock, was of Scottish descent. Sir Colin envisaged a lectureship that
"It's about a person's right to identity and the place they were born, so it was pretty important," he says. My research into William Ah commencedKet in October 2019. Andrew and MLS would be delighted if any readers have information about William that they would like to share. in 1982 and is currently writing the biography of her father. His father Mah Ket had arrived in Australia in the 1850s, during the gold rush era, and his mother in the 1860s. The dictation test required all immigrants from China to write in English a passage of not less than 50 words that was dictated by a customs officer. AALA acknowledges the past and continuing trauma caused by mistreatment and displacement. William Ah Ket - A Life of Diversity and Service Andrew Godwin* William Ah Ket (1876-1936), barrister, was born on 20 June 1876 at Wangaratta, Victoria, only son and fifth child of Ah Ket, storekeeper and grower and buyer of tobacco, and his wife Hing Ung, who were married in Melbourne in 1864. That in itself was an "impressive feat", says Reynah Tang, the founding president of the Asian-Australian Lawyers' Association. In addition, the gallery is currently hosting an exhibition of memorabilia about him. Andrews new book is a compilation of China Business Law Journals popular Lexicon series, entitled China Lexicon: Defining and translating legal terms. Maddocks also announced on Monday that CEO David Newman has been named to the judging panel for the 2021 William Ah Ket Scholarship, an initiative launched by the Asian Australian Lawyers Association (AALA) in honour of the first Asian-Australian barrister in the country. The act expressly discriminated against the Chinese and prohibited after-hours work in a factory or work-room where furniture was made or where any Chinese person was at any time employed. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), abc.net.au/news/william-ah-ket-the-first-chinese-australian-barrister/10160198. Imagined by, Understanding internal and external evidence in interpretation of claims, Legal risks and strategies for ending a tenancy early, Tips for insolvency administration of NEEQ-listed companies, Applying estoppel, dedication rules in drug patent linkage dispute, Ongoing developments with follow-on antitrust lawsuits, Legal risks of one-day trip into SCSZs for deemed exports, Fees to please: Flexible and innovative fee structure for Hong Kong arbitration, Prerequisites, exemptions for fledgling personal bankruptcy system, Bankruptcy reorganisation: revealing an investment window, Save time and money with pre-reorganisation rescue planning. That includes our servers. The Asian Australian Lawyers Association (AALA) offers our respects to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the true and traditional owners and custodians of the lands we gather on to live, work and learn. 5 Law Students Society Dinner to Sir Harrison Moore, Farrago 5(5), April 23, 1929. William Ah Ket fought social prejudice in and out of court. He went to the bar the following year and is widely understood to have become the first Australian lawyer of Chinese descent to practise as a barrister at the independent bar in Victoria. He built up a successful
The toast was proposed by Charles Lowe (later Sir Charles Lowe), then a justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria and subsequently Chancellor of Melbourne University between 1941 and 1954, and was also supported by Justice Owen Dixon of the High Court and Professor Kenneth Bailey, then Dean of Melbourne Law School.5 Interestingly, William had appeared in cases as senior to Lowe and as junior to Dixon before they were elevated to the bench. His father Mah Ket had arrived in Australia in the 1850s, during the gold rush era, and his mother in the 1860s. Ah Kets legal team successfully proved that the Chinese man was not an employee of the laundry but instead a boarder at the laundry and that he had simply been ironing his own shirt! In a High Court case calledIngham v Hie Lee,11 Ah Ket represented a Chinese laundry owner who was charged with an offence under theFactories and Shops Act 1905 in Victoria. Despite his high profile and achievements, it would seem that others were advanced while he was not. Neither of us will ever be made a judge, you because you are a woman. 16Isabel Carter,Woman in a Wig: Joan Rosanove, QC (Lansdowne Press, 1970), 13. His mother, Hing Ung, had bound feet and spoke no English. Their youngest
Both William Ah Ket and his wife were music-lovers and regular
[10] (1908) 7 CLR 277 at 307. and their only son, John Williams, has been acclaimed as one
William Marc AH-KETwas born in month1914, at birth place, to William AH-KETand Gertrude Victoria AH-KET (born BULLOCK). After the formalities conclude, enthusiastic discussion ensues amongst the guests about William and his legacy and includes a combination of questions and observations: How is it that William Ah Ket is not more widely known?; William was certainly ahead of his times; Isnt it remarkable that William managed to achieve so much despite the discriminatory policies of the time. "That's even before we have female lawyers coming into the profession.". 4The Melbourne University Magazine, Volume 1, Number 1, 1907, 20. in China and towards the Pacific nations including Australia. In addition, he had the advantage
[3], Ah Ket fought against the requirements of the 1907 Factories (Employment of Chinese) Act, which discriminated against Chinese residents,[4] and successfully opposed legislative amendments in 1904, 1905, and 1907 which would have specifically discriminated against Chinese residents in the furniture industry. [13] Isabel Carter, Woman in a Wig: Joan Rosanove, QC (Lansdowne Press, 1970), 13. 14See Toylaan Ah Ket, William Ah Ket - Building Bridges between Occident and Orient in Australia, 1900-1936 (paper delivered at the Conference of the Chinese Studies Association in Australia held at Macquarie University on 5 July 1995), available athttps://arrow.latrobe.edu.au/store/3/4/5/5/1/public/stories/wahket.htm. He said that "William Ah Ket did not ever sit on the Bench, though he would have been a very competent judge. The eldest daughter, Melaan, married Len
"But when it came to law, he knew very well what it was like to struggle and be poor and oppressed, so his sympathies were always on the side of the underdog.". 16Isabel Carter, Woman in a Wig: Joan Rosanove, QC (Lansdowne Press, 1970), 13. to Australia, William Ah Ket was appointed as Acting Consul-General
Australia's first Chinese barrister William Ah Ket was born in the Victorian country town of Wangaratta. It is named after William Ah Ket who became the first Australian barrister of Chinese origin in 1904. Chinese language. of 'building bridges between the East and West.'. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. daughter Toylaan gained her BA(hons) degree at Sydney University
He joined the Victorian Bar in 1904, reading with Stewart McArthur who later went on to be a Supreme Court judge and became the first Chinese barrister to practise in Melbourne. [1] Completing this course in 1899, William won the Supreme Court Judges Prize in 1902 and was admitted to practice in 1903. In a passage that is still recognised as current law in Australia, Justice OConnor stated as follow: It isimprobable that the legislature would overthrow fundamental principles, infringe rights, or depart from the general system of law, without expressing its intention with irresistible clearness13. [5], His answer to the difficulties he faced appears to have been to succeed in what he did; to be a real part of the legal profession; to help others and to act at all times righteously, with courage and with kindness. Prior to completing
Vivienne Davis, William Ah Ket's great-niece, suspects she actually suffered from post-natal depression. With paternal ancestry from Taishan, southern China, Ah Ket was Australia's first barrister of Asian heritage or ethnicity.He was born on 20 June 1876 at Wangaratta, Victoria, the only son and fifth child of Mah Ket and Hing Ung.He was an alumnus of the University of Melbourne.On 16 November 1912 he married Gertrude Victoria Bullock at the . 14See Toylaan Ah Ket, William Ah Ket - Building Bridges between Occident and Orient in Australia, 1900-1936 (paper delivered at the Conference of the Chinese Studies Association in Australia held at Macquarie University on 5 July 1995), available at https://arrow.latrobe.edu.au/store/3/4/5/5/1/public/stories/wahket.htm. such as the Dictation Test and Limitation of Residence. "Obviously there's not a White Australia policy as such against Chinese migrants," she says. He was born on 20 June 1876 at Wangaratta, Victoria, the only son and fifth child of Mah Ket and Hing Ung. At that time, people born in Australia were British citizens by right, regardless of their parents origins. Less is known about another person - Wu Ting Fang. He fought against the White Australia policy and racist laws targeting Chinese workers as Australia's first barrister of Chinese descent. The first barrister of Chinese descent practising at the Victorian Bar was William Ah Ket. His father had
William was born in the Victorian country town of Wangaratta in 1876, the son of Mah Ket, who arrived from Canton during the gold rush, and his wife Hing Ung. migrated from Canton in the 1850s, and when the Gold Rush
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