"Rumpole" of the Victorian Supreme Court, gaining He was a sound lawyer and a good advocate". Leave your condolences to the family on this memorial page or send flowers to show you care. K Tn : Cuong. The Inaugural G.E. William's father, Mah Ket, was one of Australia's earliest tobacco farmers. NOTE: The author, Toylaan Ah Ket, is the daughter of William Ah Ket. He was born on 20 June 1876 at Wangaratta, Victoria, the only son and fifth child of Mah Ket and Hing Ung. He served his articles under Richard Cross of the firm then known as Maddock & Jamieson (now Maddocks) in 1903. "Obviously there's not a White Australia policy as such against Chinese migrants," she says. '14 Williams focus on reconciliation is reflected in the Second Morrison Lecture that he delivered in 1933. He was a phenomenon at the Victorian Bar, a full-blooded Chinese born in the north-east of Victoria. William Ah Ket was Australia's first barrister of Asian heritage or ethnicity, born in Victoria in 1876. William Ah Ket was Australia's first Chinese Australian lawyer and, later, acting consul-general for China in Australia. [1][2] His daughter Melaan was the mother of the guitarist John Williams. Australia, by putting into practice his personal philosophy [9] (1908) 7 CLR 277. 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AALA celebrates and shares in the respect for elders, land and community and continues to advocate for intersectional diversity and the empowerment of all first nations peoples worldwide. Andrew and MLS would be delighted if any readers have information about William that they would like to share. who had made such a worthy contribution to the history of The marginalised group has shifted but it's not that distant.". Each data center building is the size of a modern day aircraft carrier, nearly four football fields long. would provide all Australians with a better knowledge of the 1John Lack, Ah Ket, William (1876 1936), Australian Dictionary of Biography, available at http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ah-ket-william-4979. could well be achieved if the Morrison Lectureship Foundation Email: cha@latrobe.edu.au. 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. In 1931, William Ah Ket's dedication to foster increased understanding Tel: +61 3 9479 1315 Historians say Mah Ket encouraged his son to study law to help the Chinese community, which was facing discriminatory laws at the end of the 19th century. William married Gertrude Victoria Ah Ket (born Bullock) on month day 1912, at age 36 at marriage place. They had two sons (William and Stanley) and two daughters (Melaan and Toylaan). 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. 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. 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. Ah Ket was born in Wangaratta in 1876 and died in 1936. which he moved. Sir Robert Menzies practised with William in Selborne Chambers. AALA acknowledges the past and continuing trauma caused by mistreatment and displacement. for reciting pithy quotations from either Shakespeare, Robby His father had arrived in Victoria in 1855 and after some years on the goldfields established one of the earliest . Defend yourself nobly but always in a dignified fashion.". Chinese called by Dr. Sun Yat Sen to attend the first National landing at Tarakan. 1John Lack, Ah Ket, William (1876 1936),Australian Dictionary of Biography, available athttp://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ah-ket-william-4979. La Trobe University [8] (1912) 15 CLR 267. In a High Court case called Ingham v Hie Lee,[8] Ah Ket represented a Chinese laundry owner who was charged with an offence under the Factories and Shops Act 1905 in Victoria. "There was definitely a fresh wave of discrimination that was being put in place," she says. 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. light opera or a Gladys Moncrief musical . 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 athttps://static1.squarespace.com/static/54dd81c6e4b074b4a339bb2e/t/5a1409caf9619a97a1396f77/1511262667464/WILLIAM+AH+KET+launch.pdf. Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. He became the leading Chinese in the district and a respected member of the Wangaratta community. "It's about a person's right to identity and the place they were born, so it was pretty important," he says. 16Isabel Carter,Woman in a Wig: Joan Rosanove, QC (Lansdowne Press, 1970), 13. in 1982 and is currently writing the biography of her father. After reading with (Sir) Stewart McArthur, 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. Jamieson in 1903. Your information is being handled in accordance with 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. 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. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the eyewitness of the Test matches between England and Australia. The story of William Ah Ket, the first Chinese-Australian barrister. * Associate Director (Asian Commercial Law), Asian Law Centre, Melbourne Law School. 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. Vivienne Davis, William Ah Ket's great-niece, suspects she actually suffered from post-natal depression. This panel discusses the role of Asian Australians in the legal profession in the past and today, including the challenges faced by Asian Australian lawyers. 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. 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 memory of William Ah Ket (1876-1936), who was born in Wangaratta of Chinese descent and became a prominent Victorian barrister. well as a tobacco-grower, store-keeper, and property owner. "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. One time, boys chased Toylaan and her sister home from Sunday school, throwing stones and calling them "Ching-chong Chinamen". William was particularly active in the fight against racial discrimination. to an end the legal career of a truly remarkable Chinese gentleman "The borders of Australia have always been closed to people who aren't white Australians. 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. The eldest daughter, Melaan, married Len Mah was born circa 1870, in China. youthful experience in 'bridging' the two worlds of East and We will never satisfy our ambitions. Neither of us will ever be made a judge, you because you are a woman. Sir Colin envisaged a lectureship that practice in Selbourne Chambers alongside such famous neighbours 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. Our data centers have been designed from the ground up to be some of the most efficient data centers in the world. 10William Ah Ket Scholarship 2019, Program (9 October 2019). This Australian law-related biographical article is a stub. Williamhad 3 siblings: Toylaan Margaret ALLEN (born AH-KET)and 2 other siblings. 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. Educated in both English andChinese cultures, he agitated against racialintolerance in Victoria and defended the rightsof Victoria`s Chinese community. in Australia ended, he settled in Wangaratta to raise his "And if nobody had stood up, like William Ah Ket, to protest against them then they might've passed.". William was born in 1876, in the north-east Victorian town of Wangaratta one of eight children. by Sir Colin MacKenzie and were brought to fruition through [7] William Ah Ket Scholarship 2019, Program (9 October 2019). alleviation of all unreasonable conditions imposed on the With paternal ancestry from Taishan, southern China, Ah Ket was Australia's first barrister of Asian heritage or ethnicity. [1] Completing this course in 1899, William won the Supreme Court Judges Prize in 1902 and was admitted to practice in 1903. My research into William Ah commencedKet in October 2019. A Paper on the Chinese and the Factories Acts, published in 1906, defended the rights of Chinese workers and factory owners against unfair legislation. 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. Chen, and in 1933 the Chinese language. His father had taken him to China when he was about five years old. 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Published: TueTue 28 Feb 2023 at 12:00am/with Kirsti Melville, Published: 21 Feb 2023Tue 21 Feb 2023 at 12:00am/with Kirsti Melville, Published: 14 Feb 2023Tue 14 Feb 2023 at 12:00am/with Kirsti Melville, Published: 7 Feb 2023Tue 7 Feb 2023 at 12:00am/with Kirsti Melville. 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". William has 1 job listed on their profile. Andrew can be contacted on a.godwin@unimelb.edu.au. William Ah Ket became a leading figure in the Chinese Australian community during the early years of Federation. 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). So commences the biography of William Ah Ket [] in theAustralian 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. Andrew and MLS would be delighted if any readers have information about William that they would like to share. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover William's . 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. Mr Tang says it shows that, despite his talents, he suffered from a level of discrimination. 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 views and 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. kind of lectures at the Australian National University that Fulfilling his fathers wishes, William studied law at the University of Melbourne. William Ah Ket was Australia's first barrister of Asian heritage or ethnicity, born in Victoria in 1876. 6Citing Karin Derkley, William Ah Ket Legacy Recognised (2018) 92(3) Law Institute Journal 83 at 83, 84. 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. 5 Law Students Society Dinner to Sir Harrison Moore, Farrago 5(5), April 23, 1929. 4The Melbourne University Magazine, Volume 1, Number 1, 1907, 20. at the National University in Canberra. First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we 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. Source: MA,VMR 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 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. Sir Robert Menzies practised with William in Selbourne Chambers. including Carole Hinchcliff, helping me with my researchfor into William Ah Ket and also for promoting William's legacy and story generally. He also appeared before Justice Lowe after he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Victoria. We should have done Medicine.16, There are many more interesting stories and facts that one could relate about William and his legacy. Chinese under the umbrella of the White Australia Policy, established their home at No.1 Dandenong Road, Malvern where 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. "If you think about someone who's a first-generation Australian trying to break into a white, Anglo-Saxon dominated legal profession, it would've taken a fair bit of work to build up his reputation, get to be known and respected," he says. He was, by all accounts, a man of Both William Ah Ket and his wife were music-lovers and regular Prior to completing Gertrudewas born on July 11 1887, in Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia. 4The Melbourne University Magazine, Volume 1, Number 1, 1907, 20. The plaque commemorates William Ah Ket (1876 - 1936), who was a lawyer and campaigner for Chinese rights and was born in Wangaratta. William Ah Ket did not ever sit on the Bench, though he would have been a very competent judge. Contact Andrew at a.godwin@unimelb.edu.au. On top of that work, William also had to deal with racism. Australia's first Chinese barrister William Ah Ket was born in the Victorian country town of Wangaratta. family. 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. Neither of us will ever be made a judge, you because you are a woman. There is, however, evidence that William was resigned to the associated barriers and limitations that his life involved. as the local 'mandarin' and Law Courts Interpreter, and prospered 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. New and compelling histories from Australia and around the world. Th my scam n ni ng r xc phm g cu. Association in Australia held at Macquarie University on 5 July 1995. We will never satisfy our ambitions. This article commemorates the life of William Ah Ket, Australias first barrister of Chinese descent. William Marc AH-KETwas born in month1914, at birth place, to William AH-KETand Gertrude Victoria AH-KET (born BULLOCK). He fought against the requirements of the 1907 Factories (Employment of Chinese) Act, which discriminated against . Morrison Lecture was given in 1932 by [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. theatre-goers during the "Gay 20s" before the Depression. 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. community during the early years of Federation. "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.". 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. [14] Karin Derkley, above n 6. 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. Their eldest son William Ket MBBS became Deputy Superintendent Masonic Lodge No.123 and held life-membership of the MCG so After the formalities conclude, enthusiastic discussion ensues among 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. He was a sound lawyer and a good advocate". [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. "That's why his story's so important to us.". l do mun ln n war phuc william khiu chin v xc phm danh tnh ca tao by gi tao yu cu my k vo y tao i bn ci u ch ca my r i ln ci mt ln ca my. Neither of us will ever be made a judge, you because you are a woman. Photographs supplied by Chris McLaughlin / Alistair Boyd / Sandra Brown / John Huth, Monument details supplied by Monument Australia - www.monumentaustralia.org.au, Monument Australia 2010 - 2023 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - Designed by, 100 Murphy Street, Visitor Information Centre, Wangaratta, 3677. William's father, Mah Ket, became highly respected to learn the cultural traditions of ancient China, and to and president of the Nam Pon Soon Society, and a committee Liu in Sydney who both obtained generous financial support He believed his objective William Ah Ket was educated at Wangaratta High School and was also taught at home by a Chinese tutor. Less is known about another person - Wu Ting Fang. 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. Contact Us, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7. 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. arts, sciences, and history of the Chinese people. The International Who's Who: 1984/85, 2004, "William Ah Ket - Building Bridges between Occident and Orient in Australia, 1900-1936*", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Ah_Ket&oldid=1136723876, Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 31 January 2023, at 20:35. 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. Putting into practice his personal philosophy [ 9 ] ( 1912 ) 15 CLR 267 fathers wishes William. Property owner Karin Derkley, above n 6 also appeared before Justice Lowe after he was born 20! Great-Niece, suspects she actually suffered from a level of discrimination in China Students Society Dinner to Harrison. 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