Carolyn with former Minister for Defence Industry, Kim Carr and former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Gareth Evans at the launch of ‘The Blackburns’.

Labour Movement History

  • ‘Paulus Johannes Brandt’, Recorder, No. 311 - March 2025, pp. 7-8.

  • The Blackburns: Private Lives, Public Ambition, MUP, Carlton, 2019. History Publication Award Winner, Victorian Community History Awards, 2019.

  • ‘Maurice Blackburn and the Seaman’s Strike in Australia’, in John Lack (ed.) 1919 The Year Things Fell Apart?, History Fellows & Associates Group, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne, 2019, pp. 70-85.

  • ‘Two lives, One Sheet of Paper and the “Great War”: A Moment in the Lives of Doris and Maurice Blackburn’, Labour History, no. 108 (May 2015), pp. 165-172.

  • Brian Fitzpatrick, Maurice Blackburn and the quest for the ‘honest’ man in politics’, in S. Fitzpatrick and S. Macintyre (eds), Against the Grain: Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark in Australian history and politics, MUP, 2007, pp. 141-162.

  • ‘The “Lone Wolf” in sheep’s clothing?: Maurice Blackburn, the Australian Labor Party and the limits to mateship’, History Australia, Vol. 3, No. 2, December 2006, pp. 40.1-40.11.

  • ‘Doris Blackburn MHR: Radical Representative’, in M. Lake & F. Kelly (eds), Double Time: Women in Victoria – 150 years, Penguin 1985, pp. 353-63.

  • Maurice Blackburn - the Man and the Legend, Fifth Maurice Blackburn Memorial Lecture, Coburg City Council/Blackburn Bequest Committee, 1991.

  • ‘Doris Blackburn’, 1889-1970, politician, peace campaigner & civil rights activist, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 13, MUP, Carlton, 1993, pp. 191-2.

  • ‘Doris Blackburn’, in Heather Radi (ed.), 200 Australian Women A Redress Anthology, Women’s Redress Press, 1988.

  • ‘‘Doris Blackburn’, Arm in Arm: Indigenous and non-Indigenous Women Working Together, http://www.womenshistory.org.au/, March 2007

  • ‘Maurice and Doris Blackburn, Private Lives, Public Ambition’, RHSV Lecture, 16 July 2019.

     ‘Doris Blackburn’, address to Coburg Historical Society, 20 March 2019.

    ‘“Oh, Woman Awake”: Doris Blackburn’s message to women’, Maurice Blackburn & Co, International Women’s Day lunch, 8 March 2019.

    “Maurice and Doris Blackburn: the struggle for freedom 1914-1970’, Public lecture, Brunswick Library, 13 March 2018.

  • ‘“Challenging the Centre”: The Coburg ALP Branch in the 1930s’, Labour History, No. 54, May 1988, pp. 47-63.

    ‘Concepts and Theories’ and ‘The Accord: A Case Study’ in An Introduction to Australian Society: Study Guide and Readings, Part A: Australia: A Mixed Economy. Deakin University 1987, pp. 1.1-1.21; 2.21-2.44.

    ‘Frank Keane’, Recorder, no. 96, October 1978.

    ‘George McGowan’, Recorder, no 87, April 1977.  For a recently extended version of this see https://www.academia.edu/10522061/George_McGowan_Labor_Stalwart_1872-1931

  • Charles (Charlie) Mutton (1890–1989) Biographical Register of the Australian Labour Movement, 1788-1975, On-line (2024) https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/mutton-charles-charlie-15099/text43399

  • ‘Charles Mutton, 1890-1989, iron worker, poultry farmer and politician’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 18, MUP, Carlton, 2012, p. 205.

  • MA Thesis, ‘Labour Politics in Coburg 1919-1940’, University of Melbourne, 1978.  Supervisor, Dr Joy Parnaby.

  • MA (Prelim) Thesis, ‘Charles Mutton and the By-Election for the Victorian Legislative Seat of Coburg, 14 July 1940’, University of Melbourne, 1975.  Supervisor: Weston Bate.

In her introduction, Rasmussen states that one of her goals in writing this joint biography was to release Maurice and Doris Blackburn from other people’s footnotes. In presenting this fleshed out, likeable portrait of two vital, influential people who deserve to be more famous than they are, she has succeeded admirably.”

JACQUELINE KENT, AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW