The story of William Ah Ket, the first Chinese-Australian barrister. Sir Robert Menzies practised with William in Selbourne Chambers. 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. 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. specifically exclude the Chinese from gaining a livelihood father employed a resident tutor for his 'seven little Australians' [3] Citing Karin Derkley, William Ah Ket Legacy Recognised (2018) 92(3) Law Institute Journal 83 at 83, 84. He died on 6 August 1936 of arteriosclerosis and renal failure at Malvern, Victoria. "And if nobody had stood up, like William Ah Ket, to protest against them then they might've passed.". He is also believed to be the first Chinese barrister to practise in Australia. C. F. Yong, The Chinese in New South Wales and Victoria, 1901-1921 (Ph.D. thesis, Australian National University, 1966). Your information is being handled in accordance with the. and their only son, John Williams, has been acclaimed as one "That's why his story's so important to us.". in Wangaratta, William Ah Ket continued his regular attendance 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. of the AIF in World War II and was killed during the Allied We will never satisfy our ambitions. Wu was born in the Straits Settlement in 1842. The Inaugural G.E. 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. Less is known about another person - Wu Ting Fang. Asian Australians have played a vital role in the legal profession since the late 1800s, starting with the first barrister of Chinese origin to join the independent bar in Victoria, William Ah Ket. 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. 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. He [7] William Ah Ket Scholarship 2019, Program (9 October 2019). at the National University in Canberra. William was educated in Wangaratta, and on gaining his matriculation Educated in both English and Chinese cultures, he agitated against racial intolerance in Victoria and defended the rights of Victoria`s Chinese community. William was particularly active in the fight against racial discrimination. 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. He said that "William Ah Ket did not ever sit on the Bench, though he would have been a very competent judge. 6Citing Karin Derkley, William Ah Ket Legacy Recognised (2018) 92(3) Law Institute Journal 83 at 83, 84. He established a committee to oppose the proposed Immigration Restriction Act and he was also active in the Anti-Opium League of Victoria which attempted to bring about social reform among Chinese in Australia and abroad. William Penrod Davis, age 80+, lives in Eagle Mountain, UT. 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. Crossing Time: Australia's transgender historypart 1. 2Helen Penrose,To Build a Firm: The Maddocks Story (Maddocks, 2010), 11. Fax: +61 3 9479 1880 Andrew and MLS would be delighted if any readers have information about William that they would like to share. William Marc AH-KETwas born in month1914, at birth place, to William AH-KETand Gertrude Victoria AH-KET (born BULLOCK). Ben Dunn who all gained renown in that era as KCs, or Justices that he could maintain his enthusiasm for cricket as a ball-to-ball 1901. all born in Australia to his Chinese parents. "Rumpole" of the Victorian Supreme Court, gaining 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. 10William Ah Ket Scholarship 2019, Program (9 October 2019). Chinese language. Mr Tang says it shows that, despite his talents, he suffered from a level of discrimination. He advocated and promoted peaceful coexistence. in the furniture-making trade. Despite these achievements, William Ah Ket's story is little-known. of 'building bridges between the East and West.'. 15William 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. Association in Australia held at Macquarie University on 5 July 1995. community during the early years of Federation. My father, William Ah Ket rose to prominence in the 1900s-1930s New and compelling histories from Australia and around the world. William's personal interests were widely diversified. Sir Robert Menzies wrote that he and Mr Ah Ket "were great friends". [4], Despite, or perhaps because of, having himself been discriminated against, Mr Ah Ket devoted his life to fighting against unfair discrimination. Sir Robert Menzies practised with William in Selbourne Chambers. 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. arts, sciences, and history of the Chinese people. We should have done Medicine.16, There are many more interesting stories and facts that one could relate about William and his legacy. William Ah Ket (, 20 June 1876 6 August 1936) was a noted Australian barrister. [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. 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. Mah was born circa 1870, in China. For group subscribers, please click here to access.Interested in group subscription? of Australia and the people of China - albeit at the academic Australias first Chinese barrister William Ah Ket was born in the Victorian country town of Wangaratta. We will never satisfy our ambitions. 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!17. William Ah Ket was Australia's first Chinese Australian lawyer and, later, acting consul-general for China in Australia. 6Citing Karin Derkley, William Ah Ket Legacy Recognised (2018) 92(3) Law Institute Journal 83 at 83, 84. migrated from Canton in the 1850s, and when the Gold Rush 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. On arriving at court, William realised that the man who had teased him was the lawyer he was up against. 7Citing Sir Robert Menzies, The Measure of the Years (Cassell Australia, 1970) at 249. 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Victoria, and the increasing protests of influential clergymen The Asian Australian Lawyers In 191314 and 1917, he acted as Consul-General for China in Melbourne.[1][5]. He went on to live in China for several years. 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. 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. Their father said "the boys were teasing her and boys tend to do that". Fulfilling his fathers wishes, William studied law at the University of Melbourne. Contact Andrew at a.godwin@unimelb.edu.au. [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. 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. He supported the creation of a committee to Wangaratta Primary School, which William Ah Ket attended as a child.Source: Andrew Godwin. He was, by all accounts, a man of He was born on 20 June 1876 at Wangaratta, Victoria, the only son and fifth child of Mah Ket and Hing Ung. Defend yourself nobly but always in a dignified fashion.". 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. While there he won a prize of 40 pounds from the Supreme Court in 1902. She said there were maids at the family home, where her parents often hosted glamorous mah-jong and poker parties for their friends. It was customary for them to celebrate the various anniversaries 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 the past we have borne all the costs associated with maintaining the website but we are now having difficulties in paying the monthly expenses. Leave your condolences to the family on this memorial page or send flowers to show you care. Ah Kets legal team successfully proved that he was not a prohibited immigrant. Despite this, between 1905 and 1928, he appeared before the High Court on at least 12 occasions. William Ah Ket in Selborne Chambers, Melbourne circa 1933.Source: http://monumentaustralia.org.au/. Williams, founder of the Spanish Guitar Centre in London, Toylaan remembered his final words: "Unity is strength.". Chinese people. "Obviously there's not a White Australia policy as such against Chinese migrants," she says. . 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. youthful experience in 'bridging' the two worlds of East and "He played the game of affluence and gambling and carding and living it up," she recalled. On 16 November 1912 he married Gertrude Victoria Bullock at the Kew Methodist Church. in 1982 and is currently writing the biography of her father. After reading with (Sir) Stewart McArthur, He believed his objective In a special series, RN examines Australia's relationship to China, and its rising prominence in global affairs. Over time the costs of maintaining this website have risen substantially (in fact they are probably larger than those of many companies who exist for profit). opinions expressed in these stories do not necessarily reflect those of La Trobe University and Cambridge respectively. 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. ROMEO Ha az lom hzelked emnek Hinnem lehet, mindjrt rm knt rm. 1John Lack, Ah Ket, William (1876 1936), Australian Dictionary of Biography, available at http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ah-ket-william-4979. William later married English-Australian typist Gertrude Bullock, courting her for four years before her father would accept him. N. 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. of their happy marriage with a small party at a Chinese banquet He acquired a considerable reputation as a negotiator of settlements. He said that "William Ah Ket did not ever sit on the Bench, though he would have been a very competent judge. of Germany's fascism and Japan's expanding military aggression His mother, Hing Ung, had bound feet and spoke no English. William was well regarded as a barrister. He was a sound lawyer and a good advocate". Blossom says. Please contact us. Occasionally their Guidelines for the Lectureship had been initially proposed 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. such as the Dictation Test and Limitation of Residence. James_Michael, Hm qua, lc 22:28. 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. On returning to Australia, he was threatened with deportation when he failed the dictation test that the law required "prohibited immigrants" to take. William was survived by his wife Gertrude Victoria (nee Bullock) and four children Dr. William, Stanley, Melaan and Toylaan. The reason why the Chinese laundry owner had been charged was that a Chinese man had been found in the laundry between 9 and 10pm at night ironing a shirt, apparently in breach of the after-hours work prohibition. In addition, the gallery is currently hosting an exhibition of memorabilia about him. agitate against the Immigration Restriction Act in Captain Stanley Ket (LLB) served with the Intelligence Unit [1] Helen Penrose, To Build a Firm: The Maddocks Story (Maddocks, 2010), 11[2] See William Lye OAM, Introduction to William Ah Ket at the Victorian Bar and Scholarship (William Ah Ket Inaugural Scholarship Launch at Maddocks, 21 November 2017), available at https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54dd81c6e4b074b4a339bb2e/t/5a1409caf9619a97a1396f77/1511262667464/WILLIAM+AH+KET+launch.pdf. 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. kind of lectures at the Australian National University that If Monument Australia is useful to you, please make a donation to keep this historical and educational resource available. Parliament for the new Republic in 1912. Mantova, utca. Australia's first Asian lawyer, William Ah Ket, who battled racism and achieved landmark victories, and how his legacy lives on Chinese-Australian barrister and lawyer William Ah Ket was known. William Ah Ket was a noted Australian barrister. He was a sound lawyer and a good advocate". 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. Sir Robert Menzies wrote that he and Mr Ah Ket "were great friends". 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. 16Isabel Carter, Woman in a Wig: Joan Rosanove, QC (Lansdowne Press, 1970), 13. 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. The eldest daughter, Melaan, married Len 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 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. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. 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. 5 Law Students Society Dinner to Sir Harrison Moore, Farrago 5(5), April 23, 1929. Tel: +61 3 9479 1315 to learn the cultural traditions of ancient China, and to 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. 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 was particularly active in the fight against racial discrimination and appeared in many 'public interest' cases. Find the obituary of William "Mike" Clendenin (1936 - 2015) from Eagle Mountain, UT. Morrison Lecture was given in 1932 by 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). Even though the laws he fought against no longer exist, she says Australia continues to treat new migrant groups with suspicion. He fought against the requirements of the 1907 Factories (Employment of Chinese) Act, which discriminated against . He also appeared before Justice Lowe after he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Victoria. 3See William Lye OAM, Introduction to William Ah Ket at the Victorian Bar and Scholarship (William Ah Ket Inaugural Scholarship Launch at Maddocks, 21 November 2017), available at https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54dd81c6e4b074b4a339bb2e/t/5a1409caf9619a97a1396f77/1511262667464/WILLIAM+AH+KET+launch.pdf. He fought against the requirements of the 1907 Factories (Employment of Chinese) Act, which discriminated against . Dr Couchman says the changes William spoke out against were "very invasive". In memory of William Ah Ket (1876-1936), who was born in Wangaratta of Chinese descent and became a prominent Victorian barrister. 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