Indeed, his first major book, Black Australians, concerned the relations between colonists and Aborigines in nineteenth-century Western Australia. The strong interest he would show throughout his career in Aboriginal issues was no doubt influenced by his early interactions with Aboriginal Australians in these towns. The second son of Salvation Army officers, Sir Paul spent his childhood in the small country towns of Western Australia. It honours a great Australian public figure and intellectual, a splendid governor-general, a creative minister of the Crown, an exemplary Liberal and a revered West Australian. When Brett asked me to deliver this lecture I readily agreed. I applaud the establishment of the Hasluck Foundation, through the efforts of its Chairman, Senator Brett Mason, and his parliamentary colleagues Arthur Sinodinos, Michaelia Cash, David Bushby, Mitch Fifield and Cory Bernardi. More importantly, it’s where he met the great love of his life, Lady Alexandra Hasluck, an important historian in her own right. The University of Western Australia is where Sir Paul studied, and later taught history, the great passion of his life. It is a great honour to deliver the inaugural Sir Paul Hasluck Lecture. John Howard OM AC delivered the Sir Paul Hasluck Foundation Inaugural Lecture in Winthrop Hall at the University of Western Australia on September 27, 2012.
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