CURRICULUM VITAE: RACE MATHEWS
General Information:
Name: The Honourable Dr. Charles Race Thorson Mathews.
Born: Australia, 27 March, 1935.
Nationality: Australian.
Marital Status: Married (five children).
Current Address: 123 Alexandra Avenue,,
South Yarra, Victoria, 3141.
Australia.
Telephone/Fax: (03) 9826 0104.
Email: race@netspace.net.au
Academic Qualifications:
(i) PhD (Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, 1999.
(ii) Master of Arts (Hons.) Department of History, Melbourne University, 1989.
(iii) Bachelor of Education (Sir Isaac Pitman Prize in History of Education), School of Education, Melbourne University, 1977.
(iv) Licentiate of the Australian College of Speech Therapists, Australian Council of Speech Therapy Training School, 1961.
(v) Trained Primary Teacher's Certificate, Toorak Teachers' College, 1954.
Positions Held:
* 2001 -
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Business and Law, Deakin University.
* 2001 -
Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Business and Economics,
Monash University
* 1998 - 2001
Senior Research Fellow in the International Centre for Management in Government, Monash/Mt Eliza School of Business and Government.
* 1992 - 1997
Senior Research Fellow in the Graduate School of Government, Monash University.
* 1990 -1992
Visiting Fellow in the Public Sector Management Institute, Monash University.
* 1979 - 1992
Member forOakleigh in the Victorian Legislative Assembly (Chairman, Ministerial Advisory Committee on Co-operatives, 1988-1992; Member, Economic and Budget Review Committee, 1989-1992, Privileges Committee, House Committee 1988-1992); Minister for Community Services 1987-1988; Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Minister for the Arts1982-1987; Minister Assisting the Premier for the Victorian Sesquicentenary and the Australian Bicentenary 1982-1984; Secretary to the Opposition Shadow Cabinet 1981-1982; Opposition Spokesman on Economic Development 1981-1982; Parliamentary Member of the Victorian Institute of Secondary Education 1981-1982; Deputy Chairman, Public Accounts Committee 1981-1982.
* 1976-1979
Principal Private Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition in the Victorian Parliament (A.C. Holding and F.N. Wilkes).
* 1972-1975
Member for Casey in the Australian Parliament (Chairman, House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties 1974-1975; Chairman, Government Members' Committee on Urban and Regional Development).
* 1967-1972
Principal Private Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition in the Australian Parliament (E.G. Whitlam).
* 1959-1967
Speech Therapist, Victorian Education Department.
* 1953-1958
Primary Teacher, Victorian Education Department.
* 1952
Clerk, Shell Company of Australia.
Principal Publications:
Books:
Sole Author:
Jobs of Our Own: Building a Stakeholder Society. 1999, Sydney, Pluto Press (Australia), and London, Comerford & Miller.
Australia's First Fabians: Middle-Class Radicals, Labour Activists and the Early Labour Movement. 1993, Cambridge University Press.
Joint Editor with Hugh Emy and Owen Hughes:
Whitlam Re-visited: Policy Development, Policies and Outcomes. 1992, Sydney, Pluto Press.
Co-Editor with David Burchall:
Labor's Troubled Times. 1991, Sydney, Pluto Press (Australia).
Monographs, Journal Articles, Chapters and Pamphlets:
Mr Kennett's Contempt: The Parliamentary Superannuation Ultimatum Affair of May, 1991 in AQ: Journal of Contemporary Analysis, Vol. 73 Issue 3 May-June 2001.
Mutuals in Regional Economic Development: Mondragon and Desjardins in Birchall J. 2001, The New Mutualism in Public Policy, London, Routledge.
Turning the Tide: Towards a Mutualist Philosophy and Politics for Labor and the Left, Melbourne, Australian Fabian Society and Arena Publications, 2001.
People Before Profit: The Credit Union Movement in Australia in The Journal of Co-operative Studies, Vol. 33:3 (No. 100), December, 2000.
NRMA Insurance Demutualisation in Journal of Australian Political Economy, Number 44, December, 1999.
Credit Unions and the New Mutualism in The Journal of Co-operative Studies Vol 30:3 (No. 91). January, 1998.
The Fabian Society. Entry for Shafritz J.M. (ed) The International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration. Boulder, Colorado. Westview Press. 1997.
William Morris and Socialism in The Chesterton Review, Vol. XXIII, No. 3, August, 1997.
The Mondragon Co-operative Corporation: Lessons for Australia. Graduate School of Government Working Paper, Monash University, 1997.
Public Trust and Public Deception in Clark G.L., Prior Jonson E and Caldow W Accountability and Corruption: Public Sector Ethics. St Leonards, New South Wales. Allen & Unwin. 1997.
Co-operatives and Regional Economic Development in Co-operatives Managing Change into the Next Century. Sydney, NSW Registry of Co-operatives. 1996.
Shaw and Chesterton: The Reconciliation in Hogan M (ed.) Australian Politics: Catholic Perspectives. Uniya. Sydney. 1994.
Whitlam Re-visited: A Personal Memoir in Emy H., Hughes O and Mathews R (eds) Whitlam Re-visited: Policy Development, Policies and Outcomes. Sydney, Pluto Press. 1994.
Print Media Ownership Concentration: Lessons and Insights from the Victorian Inquiries in Competition and Diversity in Australia's Print Media. Sydney. Australian Centre for Independent Journalism. 1991.
Health Wars. Melbourne. Australian Fabian Society. 1989.
Employee Ownership: Mondragon's Lessons for Australia. Melbourne. Australian Fabian Society. 1987.
Victoria's War Against Whitlam in Grant B. (ed) The Whitlam Phenomenon. Melbourne. McPhee Gribble/Penguin. 1986.
David Bennett: A Memoir. 1985. Australian Fabian Society
Building the Society of Equals: Worker Co-operatives and the ALP. Melbourne. Victorian Fabian Society. 1983.
Expenditure Control in the Victorian Parliament in Nethercote J.R. (ed) Parliament and Bureaucracy. Sydney. Hale & Iremonger. 1982.
Labor Socialist Objective (with Gareth Evans and Peter Wilenski). Melbourne. Victorian Fabian Society. 1982.
Meeting the Crisis: Federal Aid for Education. Melbourne. Victorian Fabian Society. 1967.
Recent Conference Papers, Public Lectures and Magazine and Newspaper Articles:
Making the Break: Co-operative Options for Scholarly Autonomy Paper for the Association for the Public University Conference, Melbourne, 9 December, 2001.
Ethics and Inclusion: Mondragon and the Workplace Relationship, Paper for the Conference on "Ethics and Enterprise: The Project of Ethical Business, the Project of Ethics through Business", Mondragon Unibertsitatea (HUHEZI), Mondragon, Spain, 10 May, 2001
Masters of Their Own Destiny: Autonomy and the Performing Arts, Kenneth Myer Memorial Lecture for the George Fairfax Fellowship, Deakin University, 22 March, 2001
Credit Unions in the New Millennium: The Regional and Rural Economic Development Option. Paper for the Credit Union Historical Co-operative Convention, 20 October, 2000
Mr Kennett's Contempt: The Parliamentary Superannuation Ultimatum Affair of May, 1991, Paper for the Australian Fabian Society/Labour History Society "The Kennett Years: Scorched Earth of Creative Destruction?" conference, 15 October, 2000.
More Than a Guggenheim, Credit Union Management, Spring 2000.
Recovering Our Roots: Mutualism, Mutuals and the ALP, Paper for the Australian Fabian Society/Pluto Press "Unchain My Mind: New Social-Democratic Ideas for Labor in Government" conference, 27 July, 2000.
People Before Profit: A History of the Australian Credit Union Movement, Review Article in Credit Union Management, Autumn, 2000.
Looting the Mutuals: The Ethics and Economics of Demutualisation, Dissent, Number 3, Spring 2000.
Mutualist Options for Regional Economic Development and Empowerment: The Mondragon and Desjardins Cases, Background Paper for an Address to the Brisbane Institute, 5 May, 2000.
Demutualisation: The Credit Union Challenge in Credit Union Management, Summer, 2000.
The Casualties of Cashing In. Feature Article for the Sydney Morning Herald, 28 February, 2000.
Australia Can Take Lead From Mondragon. Feature Article for the Australian Financial Review, 16 February, 2000.
Reinventing the Mutual: the Challenge for Credit Unionism. Paper for the "Mutuality: A Third Way for Australia" conference, Melbourne, 19 November, 1999.
NRMA Insurance Demutualisation: Notes for a Case Study. Paper for the Mutuality Australia Demutualisation Roundtable, Sydney University of Technology, 8 September, 1999.
Its Better to Keep the NRMA for Our Common Good. Feature article for the Sydney Morning Herald, 20 August, 1999.
The NRMA and the Case Against Demutualisation. Arena Magazine, August-September, 1999
Jobs of Our Own: A Distributist Future for Australia. 1999 G.K. Chesterton Memorial Lecture for the G.K. Chesterton Society of Western Australia, Notre Dame University, Perth, 27 May, 1999.
How to Make a Noise in Kennett's State of Silence. Feature Article for the Age, 20 January, 1999.
Credit Unions and Regional Economic Development: The Economics of Empowerment. Paper for the Australian and New Zealand Third Sector Research Ltd Conference on "Community, Citizenship and Enterprise Culture", Deakin University, 19 June, 1998.
Float Sinks Mutual Benefits. Feature Article for the Australian Financial Review, 16 June, 1998.
Re-invigorating Credit Union Mutuality. Paper for the Australasian Credit Union Directors Institute Northern Regional Seminar, Brisbane, 16 May, 1998.
A Science Fiction of Abundance: The Moral and Political Complexities of Utopia. Arena Magazine, February-March, 1998.
Where Credit Is Due. Book Review for Eureka Street, January-February, 1998.
Secret Police Files Cry Out for Swift Judicial Inquiry. Feature Article for the Age, 28 January, 1998.
Future Shock: the Rise of Nanotech. Book Review for the Age, 15 November, 1997.
Credit Unions and the New Mutualism. Paper for the Australian Credit Union Historical Co-operative Ltd Convention, Sydney, 18 October, 1997.
But Is It Socialist: Mondragon Works But How and as What? Arena Magazine. April-May, 1997.
Answering to the Kids. Feature Article for the Sunday Age, 3 November, 1996.
Mondragon Re-visited. Paper for the 1996 Co-operatives Key Issues Conference, Sydney, 25 October, 1996.
William Morris and Socialism. William Morris Centenary Lecture. National Gallery of Victoria, 25 September, 1996.
The Mondragon Phenomenon. Feature Article for the Australian Financial Review, 25 September, 1996.
Other Positions Held
Secretary, Australian Fabian Society 1998- ,1980-88, 1960-67; Chairman 1988-92, 1968.
Board Member, Waverley Credit Union Co-operative Ltd, 1991-1998, Chairman 1996-98.
Board Member, H.V. Evatt Foundation, 1990-992.
Council Member, Victorian Institute of Seconday Education, 1979-81.
Board Member, Labour Resource Centre, 1976-80.
Victorian Board Member, Australian Institute of Political Science, 1976-81.
Councillor, City of Croydon, 1964-66.