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to an end the legal career of a truly remarkable Chinese gentleman "Rumpole" of the Victorian Supreme Court, gaining of Australia and the people of China - albeit at the academic [13] Isabel Carter, Woman in a Wig: Joan Rosanove, QC (Lansdowne Press, 1970), 13. William Ah Ket became a leading figure in the Chinese Australian community during the early years of Federation. He said that "William Ah Ket did not ever sit on the Bench, though he would have been a very competent judge. He advocated and promoted peaceful coexistence.8 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. Despite Ah Ket's legal nous, he still faced prejudice, often from his own clients. in China and towards the Pacific nations including Australia. Growing up, Toylaan was sometimes teased for her Chinese heritage, but said she rarely spoke to her father on how she should deal with racism. At that time, people born in Australia were British citizens by right, regardless of their parents origins. 4The Melbourne University Magazine, Volume 1, Number 1, 1907, 20. 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. The biography of Joan Rosanove QC, an alumna of Melbourne Law School and the first Jewish woman in Australia to be admitted as a barrister, contains the following reference to a light-hearted discussion between William and Joan: A Melbourne barrister, Mr Ah Ket, a friend of Marks [Joans father], said to her, You and I have both chosen the wrong profession, Joan. That includes our servers. Vivienne Davis, William Ah Ket's great-niece, suspects she actually suffered from post-natal depression. 9The Hon Susan Kiefel AC, Chief Justice of Australia, William Ah Kets contribution to diversity in the legal profession (Asian Australian Lawyers Association, William Ah Ket Scholarship Presentation, Great Hall, High Court of Australia, Canberra, 9 October 2019, 5:30pm). Th my scam n ni ng r xc phm g cu. One time, boys chased Toylaan and her sister home from Sunday school, throwing stones and calling them "Ching-chong Chinamen". We should have done Medicine.16, There are many more interesting stories and facts that one could relate about William and his legacy. The biography of Joan Rosanove QC, an alumna of Melbourne Law School and the first Jewish woman in Australia to be admitted as a barrister, contains the following reference to a light-hearted discussion between William and Joan: A Melbourne barrister, Mr Ah Ket, a friend of Marks [Joans father], said to her, You and I have both chosen the wrong profession, Joan. William Ah Ket was a noted Australian barrister. Williams focus on reconciliation is reflected in the Second Morrison Lecture that he delivered in 1933, where he discussed 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. . Educated in both English and Chinese cultures, he agitated against racial intolerance in Victoria and defended the rights of Victoria`s Chinese community. 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.15 William would have had an affinity with bagpipes as his wife, Gertrude Bullock, was of Scottish descent. [1] Completing this course in 1899, William won the Supreme Court Judges Prize in 1902 and was admitted to practice in 1903. 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. 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. a keen if not always successful punter. For group subscribers, please click here to access.Interested in group subscription? or the editors of the website. Ah Kets colleagues remembered him with warmth and affection as an amiable and gregarious man, greatly respected for his ability and integrity. to Australia, William Ah Ket was appointed as Acting Consul-General of the world's most talented classical guitarists. Sir Colin envisaged a lectureship that He died on 6 August 1936 of arteriosclerosis and renal failure at Malvern, Victoria. The story of William Ah Ket is a significant one in the history of the Australian legal profession. of 'building bridges between the East and West.'. "William Ah Ket's contribution to diversity in the legal profession" The Hon Susan Kiefel AC Chief Justice of Australia I am pleased to speak this evening and honoured to present the William Ah Ket Scholarship for 2019. Prior to completing landing at Tarakan. Church to a young Australian woman, Gertrude Bullock, whose He specialised in civil law and acquired a considerable reputation as a negotiator of settlements. Victoria, and the increasing protests of influential clergymen William Marc AH-KETwas born in month1914, at birth place, to William AH-KETand Gertrude Victoria AH-KET (born BULLOCK). specifically exclude the Chinese from gaining a livelihood 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. 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. president of the Australian-Chinese Association, co-founder He became the leading Chinese in the district and a respected member of the Wangaratta community. OK BAGUS nama galih ayuningtyas nim 202210631013327 kelas pgsd09 elaborasi pemahaman topik teknologi baru di sini, adalah materi disajikan dalam bentuk lisan all born in Australia to his Chinese parents. The legacy of Australia's #firstAsianlawyer, William Ah Ket, who battled #racism and achieved landmark victories, lives on. established their home at No.1 Dandenong Road, Malvern where We will never satisfy our ambitions. He has the lucky number of 88 on the Victorian Bar roll. Neither of us will ever be made a judge, you because you are a woman. We should have done Medicine.16, There are many more interesting stories and facts that one could relate about William and his legacy. 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In addition to lobbying against discriminatory legislation, such as the Immigration Restriction Bill of 1901, William appeared in many cases that we would describe today as public interest cases. Despite his high profile and achievements, it would seem that others were advanced while he was not.6 He was neither appointed Silk nor a judge. William Ah Ket also wrote articles and gave lectures in support Less is known about another person - Wu Ting Fang. Crossing Time: Australia's transgender historypart 1. Guineas and the Melbourne Cup, where he was recognised as 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". The keynote address is delivered by the Honourable Susan Kiefel AC, Chief Justice of The High Court of Australia, who makes the following comments: By all accounts, Mr Ah Ket was a remarkable man. My father, William Ah Ket rose to prominence in the 1900s-1930s Last night, things came full circle when I attended the launch of the 2019 William Ah Ket Scholarship at the Chinese Museum in Melbourne. Indeed, as his daughter Toylaan noted in a paper on her father, this was an issue that he was passionate about, having been involved in forming a committee to agitate against the Immigration Restriction Act 1901 and the unreasonable conditions imposed, such as the infamous dictation test. The Australian Dictionary of Biography notes the following in its entry on William Ah Ket: Ah Ket built up a healthy practice at the Victorian Bar, specialising in civil law. One case he was involved in successfully challenged the Immigration Restriction Act better known as the White Australia policy in 1908. 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! She was sent to the Beechworth Lunatic Asylum and diagnosed with mania when William was five, and she lived there until she died in 1896. Whatever the challenges that William faced during his sixty years, there is no doubt that his life was one of diversity and service. William stayed involved with the University and was elected the President of the Law Students Society on 19 April 1907.4 Some 20 years later, in 1929, William supported a toast in favour of Sir Harrison Moore, the third Dean of Melbourne Law School, at a dinner hosted by the Law Students Society to mark Sir Harrisons retirement in 1927. He fought against the requirements of the 1907 Factories (Employment of Chinese) Act, which discriminated against . After reading with (Sir) Stewart McArthur, Your help would be greatly appreciated. Neither of us will ever be made a judge, you because you are a woman. William also represented Chinese-Australians challenging discriminatory legislation in the High Court. '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. [2] William stayed involved with the University and was elected the President of the Law Students Society on 19 April 1907. Chen, and in 1933 the [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. So begins the biography of William Ah Ket [] in the Australian Dictionary of Biography. For example, in addition to a busy life at the bar, William Ah Ket spent time as a diplomat, serving as acting consul-general for China in 1913-1914 and in 1917. Fast forward 90 years to 9 October 2019 when an audience of some 50 persons are gathered in the Great Hall of the High Court of Australia to attend the third award ceremony for the William Ah Ket Scholarship a scholarship established by the Asian Australian Lawyers Association in 2017 and supported by Maddocks. [11] See 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. William broke social barriers when he signed the bar roll in 1904 one paper described him as a "full-blooded, clever young Chinese" and built a reputation as a skilled barrister. He fought against the requirements of the 1907 Factories (Employment of Chinese) Act, which discriminated against . 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. As the first #ChineseAustralian to join the Victorian Bar, William was born. For example, in addition to a busy life at the bar, William Ah Ket spent time as a diplomat, serving as acting consul-general for China in 1913-1914 and in 1917. 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. 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 . After his return Despite the bamboo ceiling that William must have encountered during his life and career, it appears that his mission was to remove barriers and, as his daughter Toylaan Ah Ket wrote, to implement his personal philosophy of building bridges between the East and West. in the furniture-making trade. William specialised in civil cases, including lawsuits over divorce petitions, wills and contracts. He served his articles under Richard Cross of the firm then known as Maddock & Jamieson (now Maddocks) in 1903. William was born in 1876, in the north-east Victorian town of Wangaratta one of eight children. William had 4 sisters: Alberta Young (born Ah Ket) and 3 other siblings. schools. Ah Kets legal team successfully proved that he was not a prohibited immigrant. Associate Professor Andrew Godwin is researching the life and times of MLS alum William Ah Ket and is working with the descendants of the Ah Ket family for this purpose. 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".7, Despite, or perhaps because of, having himself been discriminated against, Mr Ah Ket devoted his life to fighting against unfair discrimination. The reason why the Chinese laundry owner had been charged was that a Chinese man had been found in the laundry between 9 and 10 pm at night ironing a shirt, apparently in breach of the after-hours work prohibition. After completing his secondary education, he studied law at the University of Melbourne, and joined the law firm of Maddock & Jamieson (now Maddocks). William's client, James Minahan, was born in Australia to an Anglo-Australian mother and Chinese father. the Consul-General for China, Dr. W.P. 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Following his youthful introduction to country horse-racing 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. There is little doubt that William Ah Ket's [3] Citing Karin Derkley, William Ah Ket Legacy Recognised (2018) 92(3) Law Institute Journal 83 at 83, 84. Despite his high profile and achievements, it would seem that others were advanced while he was not. 4The Melbourne University Magazine, Volume 1, Number 1, 1907, 20. 2Helen Penrose, To Build a Firm: The Maddocks Story (Maddocks, 2010), 11. 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. Chinese under the umbrella of the White Australia Policy, William Penrod Davis, age 80+, lives in Eagle Mountain, UT. Andrew and MLS would be delighted if any readers have information about William that they would like to share. He fought against the White Australia policy and racist laws targeting Chinese workers as Australia's first barrister of Chinese descent. Fast forward 90 years to 9 October 2019 when an audience of some 50 persons are gathered in the Great Hall of the High Court of Australia to attend the third award ceremony for the William Ah Ket Scholarship a scholarship established by the Asian Australian Lawyers Association in 2017 and supported by Maddocks. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. Mantova, utca. Williams, founder of the Spanish Guitar Centre in London, could well be achieved if the Morrison Lectureship Foundation [7] William Ah Ket Scholarship 2019, Program (9 October 2019). William was educated in Wangaratta, and on gaining his matriculation The biography of Joan Rosanove QC, an alumna of Melbourne Law School and the first Jewish woman in Australia to be admitted as a barrister, contains the following reference to a light-hearted discussion between William and Joan: A Melbourne barrister, Mr Ah Ket, a friend of Marks [Joans father], said to her, You and I have both chosen the wrong profession, Joan. 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 the state of Victoria.3. 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. My research into William Ah commencedKet in October 2019. He was also a delegate to the first interstate Chinese convention held at Melbourne in 1905 and was co-founder and president of the Sino-Australian Association, considered to be the first Australian-Chinese club. Their eldest son William Ket MBBS became Deputy Superintendent Chinese language. "He famously won the case that day and then went over afterwards and put on a stereotype Chinese accent and said: 'How you likey my cross-examination?'" I am proud to have been part of this fantastic initiative. [14] Karin Derkley, above n 6. The Melbourne Chinese Chamber of Commerce asked him to represent Australian Chinese at the opening of the first Chinese Parliament in Beijing in December, 1912 and he was Acting Consul for China in 19131914 and 1917. An alum of the University of Melbourne, William studied jurisprudence in 1897 before joining law firm Maddock & Jamieson (now Maddocks) and commencing the articled clerks course at the University in 1898. His father Mah Ket had arrived in Australia in the 1850s, during the gold rush era, and his mother in the 1860s. The younger son of their happy marriage with a small party at a Chinese banquet He advocated and promoted peaceful coexistence. I haven't yet established who exactly it was that organised James Minahan's legal representation; the Chinese consulate began its operations the following year. level and not merely through trade. the efforts of William Ah Ket in Melbourne and William J. 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. Not a prohibited immigrant because you are a woman [ 14 ] Karin Derkley, n... Their parents origins the north-east Victorian town of Wangaratta one of diversity and service, UT known another! William Penrod Davis, age 80+, lives in Eagle Mountain, UT Law Students Society on 19 william ah ket... 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