Source: MA,VMR Their eldest son William Ket MBBS became Deputy Superintendent
William Penrod Davis, age 80+, lives in Eagle Mountain, UT. We will never satisfy our ambitions. Victoria 3086
would increase friendship and understanding between the people
In an interview with the National Library of Australia in 1993, she remembered her affluent childhood. Keblem kirja ken l a trnjn S eg nap oj okatlan, jti jkedv Emelget a fldrl, vg rzetekkel. In a special series, RN examines Australia's relationship to China, and its rising prominence in global affairs. "Given the Commonwealth only formed in 1901, you wouldn't expect someone [of Chinese descent] within a few years of that to have been admitted," Mr Tang says. Th my scam n ni ng r xc phm g cu. 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. This
Victoria, and the increasing protests of influential clergymen
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. daughter Toylaan gained her BA(hons) degree at Sydney University
times, William Ah Ket was affectionately regarded as the Chinese
He is also believed to be the first Chinese barrister to practise in Australia. 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. 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. barrister to practice in Melbourne. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the by Sir Colin MacKenzie and were brought to fruition through
Vivienne Davis, William Ah Ket's great-niece, suspects she actually suffered from post-natal depression. government's repeated attempts in 1904, 1905 and 1907 to make
From this summary of his early achievements, it is clear that William was a gifted student and lawyer, who succeeded in a time rife with racial discrimination. William had 4 sisters: Alberta Young (born Ah Ket) and 3 other siblings. Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. 10William Ah Ket Scholarship 2019, Program (9 October 2019). The legacy of Australia's #firstAsianlawyer, William Ah Ket, who battled #racism and achieved landmark victories, lives on. The keynote address is delivered by Chief Justice of The High Court of Australia, the Honourable Susan Kiefel AC, who makes the following comments: By all accounts, Mr Ah Ket was a remarkable man. and educators against racial discrimination in Australia. Special thanks to Jennifer Wood, Kate Bagnall, Pauline Rule and the National Library of Australia for helping with research. such as the Dictation Test and Limitation of Residence. father employed a resident tutor for his 'seven little Australians'
"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.". community during the early years of Federation. We will never satisfy our ambitions. Ah Ket was born in Wangaratta in 1876 and died in 1936. He was in the front rank of pleaders and became renowned as a fine cross-examiner quietly spoken, courteous and shrewd and as an outstanding jury man. Andrews new book is a compilation of China Business Law Journals popular Lexicon series, entitled China Lexicon: Defining and translating legal terms. Email: cha@latrobe.edu.au. William Ah Ket was chosen as delegate by the Chinese Chamber
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. 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. So begins the biography of William Ah Ket [] in the Australian Dictionary of Biography. It also discusses the importance of cultural diversity in the workplace and within the community, particularly during a time when racism has become more prominent since COVID-19. William Ah Ket in Selborne Chambers, Melbourne circa 1933.Source: http://monumentaustralia.org.au/. Please send any press releases, deal announcements, details of new hires, newsletters and any other news items to: Copyright 2022 Vantage Asia Publishing Limited. joint Trusteeship with Sir Colin MacKenzie in the founding
It is named after William Ah Ket who became the first Australian barrister of Chinese origin in 1904. 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). William Ah Ket (, 20 June 1876 - 6 August 1936) was a noted Australian barrister. 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. Ah Ket appeared in another High Court case called Potter v Minahan,[9] where he represented a man born in Australia of a Chinese father and a white Australian mother. Our data centers have been designed from the ground up to be some of the most efficient data centers in the world. At that time, people born in Australia were British citizens by right, regardless of their parents origins. So how is it that such a pioneering lawyer of Chinese descent is not more widely known? in Chisholm Street. He also appeared before Justice Lowe after he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Victoria. His father, Ah Ket, and mother, Hing Ung, had established one of the first tobacco farms on the King River. they raised a family of two sons and two daughters. He was an alumnus of the University of Melbourne. '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. in China and towards the Pacific nations including Australia. All rights reserved. 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! Whatever the challenges that William faced during his sixty years, there is no doubt that his life was one of diversity and service. In a High Court case called Ingham v Hie Lee,11 Ah Ket represented a Chinese laundry owner who was charged with an offence under the Factories and Shops Act 1905 in Victoria. 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. The younger son
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. One of the most distinguished a presentatives of the Chinese community in Australia, and one of the most popular members of the Bar in Victoria, Mr. William . He supported the creation of a committee to
In his more-than 30-year career, William was never promoted to the rank of senior barrister or appointed judge. One case he was involved in successfully challenged the Immigration Restriction Act better known as the White Australia policy in 1908. On 16 November 1912 he married Gertrude Victoria Bullock at the Kew Methodist Church. He fought against the requirements of the 1907 Factories (Employment of Chinese) Act, which discriminated against . for reciting pithy quotations from either Shakespeare, Robby
Ah Kets colleagues remembered him with warmth and affection as an amiable and gregarious man, greatly respected for his ability and integrity. 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. ways of thinking, with particular reference to Confucius'. The eldest daughter, Melaan, married Len
[13] Isabel Carter, Woman in a Wig: Joan Rosanove, QC (Lansdowne Press, 1970), 13. 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. 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. He died on 6 August 1936 of arteriosclerosis and renal failure at Malvern, Victoria. president of the Australian-Chinese Association, co-founder
to learn the cultural traditions of ancient China, and to
"Winning the inaugural William Ah Ket Scholarship brings me great pride and satisfaction, owing to the scholarship's underlying purpose of fostering the development and promotion of cultural diversity in the Australian legal profession. James_Michael, Hm qua, lc 22:28. In 1921, William and Gertrude
During his career Ah Ket battled the harsh effects of the White Australia Policy in 1908. Educated in both English andChinese cultures, he agitated against racialintolerance in Victoria and defended the rightsof Victoria`s Chinese community. The award is sponsored by Maddocks where William Ah Ket was an articled clerk prior to joining the Victorian Bar, which is also a new sponsor this year along with the University of Melbourne Law School, where Mr Ah Ket studied. 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. 15William Ah Ket, Eastern Thought, with special reference to Confucius (Second Morrison Lecture, 3 May 1933), available athttps://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/145813/2/Morrison%20Oration%2002.pdf. of the George Ernest Morrison Memorial Lectureship in Ethnology
for China in Melbourne in 1913-14 and again in 1917. At the age of 35, William was married at the Kew Methodist
Blossom says. Association in Australia held at Macquarie University on 5 July 1995. Morrison Lecture was given in 1932 by
Your help would be greatly appreciated. William later married English-Australian typist Gertrude Bullock, courting her for four years before her father would accept him. at the National University in Canberra. a keen if not always successful punter. But his family is being deported because he has Down syndrome, 'An untold history': Chinese and Indigenous Australians share a strong cultural bond, Sticky Fingers removed from Bluesfest line-up following backlash, New Easter Island Moai statue discovered in volcano crater, Major tour operator pulls pin on Alice Springs due to 'external challenges' facing region, 'Sickening, callous and brazen': Sydney man dies in hail of bullets in front of 12yo son, Mining giant offers help to rebuild flood-damaged town in lieu of payment for radioactive capsule search, MP Monique Ryan and chief of staff Sally Rugg fail to settle dispute after four-week mediation, Outside her tent, next to a popular city walking track, homeless Tasha is past caring what people think, WA environmental watchdog says 'real' chance Alcoa pipeline could leak toxic chemicals into drinking water dam, Vietnam's parliament elects the nation's next president amid anti-corruption campaign. 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. Their youngest
But he added: "But do not ever be intimidated or pushed down or give into people who would harass you or tease you and laugh at you. 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. [12] William Ah Ket, Eastern Thought, with special reference to Confucius (Second Morrison Lecture, 3 May 1933), available at https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/145813/2/Morrison%20Oration%2002.pdf. or the editors of the website. 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. Leave your condolences to the family on this memorial page or send flowers to show you care. 5 Law Students Society Dinner to Sir Harrison Moore, Farrago 5(5), April 23, 1929. William Ah Ket became a leading figure in the Chinese Australian
schools. Sir Robert Menzies wrote that he and Mr Ah Ket "were great friends". of Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital. live, learn and work. His father Mah Ket had arrived in Australia in the 1850s, during the gold rush era, and his mother in the 1860s. He was born in Victoria in 1876, the only son among six daughters
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. It was customary for them to celebrate the various anniversaries
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. He said that "William Ah Ket did not ever sit on the Bench, though he would have been a very competent judge. Despite Ah Ket's legal nous, he still faced prejudice, often from his own clients. 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. Both William Ah Ket and his wife were music-lovers and regular
He was a sound lawyer and a good advocate". William Ah Ket (, 20 June 1876 6 August 1936) was a noted Australian barrister. Guidelines for the Lectureship had been initially proposed
"That's even before we have female lawyers coming into the profession.". 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". respect, not only within his legal fraternity, but within
well as a tobacco-grower, store-keeper, and property owner. 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. "He played the game of affluence and gambling and carding and living it up," she recalled. [14] Karin Derkley, above n 6. Parliament for the new Republic in 1912. 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. Popular among the press reporters and cartoonists of his
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. kind of lectures at the Australian National University that
Ah Kets legal team successfully proved that he was not a prohibited immigrant. 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. Neither of us will ever be made a judge, you because you are a woman. He made several successful submissions opposing the Victorian
"Rumpole" of the Victorian Supreme Court, gaining
or a night of comedy at the Tivoli with Stiffy & Mo. 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. Prior to completing
La Trobe University
"[The man was] asking him how the Chinaman liked his cup of tea and really awful things," she says. His father had taken him to China when he was about five years old. William was a member of the Chinese Empire Reform Association of 1904 and the Anti-Opium League of Victoria, organisations which supported modernisation and social reform among Chinese at home and abroad. 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. Prior to completing his tertiary studies at Melbourne University, William received a full primary and secondary education in Wangaratta's public schools. He fought against the requirements of the 1907 Factories (Employment of Chinese) Act, which discriminated against . 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. "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?'" Defend yourself nobly but always in a dignified fashion.". 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. William was survived by his wife Gertrude Victoria (nee Bullock) and four children Dr. William, Stanley, Melaan and Toylaan. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. English-born forebears had migrated to Australia from Cheshire
Life [ edit] With paternal ancestry from Taishan, southern China, Ah Ket was Australia's first barrister of Asian heritage or ethnicity. [3] He was neither appointed Silk nor a judge. However, as Sir Robert Menzies, who was a friend and practised with Mr Ah Ket in Selbourne Chambers, observed [a] certain prejudice among clients against having a Chinese barrister to an extent limited his practice. William Ah Ket was Australia's first Chinese Australian lawyer and, later, acting consul-general for China in Australia. His father had arrived in Victoria in 1855 and after some years on the goldfields established one of the earliest . I because I am Chinese. In its decision, the High Court found that if the immigration legislation had intended to remove the rights of citizenship, it should have expressed its intention clearly. He was also the acting consul-general for China in 1913-14 and in 1917. I am proud to have been part of this fantastic initiative. he moved to Melbourne to study Law at Melbourne University. 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. Wangaratta Primary School, which William Ah Ket attended as a child.Source: Andrew Godwin. Captain Stanley Ket (LLB) served with the Intelligence Unit
I because I am Chinese. 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. In addition, the gallery is currently hosting an exhibition of memorabilia about him. Andrew can be contacted ona.godwin@unimelb.edu.au. I because I am Chinese. In 1931, William Ah Ket's dedication to foster increased understanding
2Helen Penrose,To Build a Firm: The Maddocks Story (Maddocks, 2010), 11. Three years later, the untimely death of William Ah Ket brought
"She never saw her children raised, she never was never able to live in the community like her husband or anything," Vivienne says. William Ah Ket did not ever sit on the Bench, though he would have been a very competent judge. . "And if nobody had stood up, like William Ah Ket, to protest against them then they might've passed.". Supplied: William Ah Ket's descendants Topics: history , laws , melbourne-3000 Top Stories 'Total deviousness': Witnesses recount 'suspicious' inferno in the Luna Park Ghost Train 'If you're offered it, take it': Government backs AstraZeneca despite blood clot concerns [9] (1908) 7 CLR 277. Each data center building is the size of a modern day aircraft carrier, nearly four football fields long. He was a phenomenon at the Victorian Bar, a full-blooded Chinese born in the north-east of Victoria. 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. Chinese under the umbrella of the White Australia Policy,
He was, by all accounts, a man of Menzies, Owen Dixon, James Tait, and
Crossing Time: Australia's transgender historypart 1. 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. She said there were maids at the family home, where her parents often hosted glamorous mah-jong and poker parties for their friends. community, such as Quong Tart in Sydney and Cheok Hong. It is fitting and proper that this scholarship is named for him.[6], The recipient of the Scholarship, Tienyi Long, notes 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 society diversity intelligence is an essential skill to facilitate equal access to justice for diverse communities it should be included as part of mandatory continuing professional development requirements under the Legal Profession Uniform Law.[7]. opinions expressed in these stories do not necessarily reflect those of La Trobe University
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