Professor Murray Goot
Visiting Professor & ARC Australian Professorial Fellow at Macquarie University
Murray Goot is an Australian Research Council Australian Professorial Fellow and Professor in the Department of Modern History, Politics, International Relations and Security at Macquarie University where he holds a Personal Chair. He is the coordinator of Macquarie's Concentration of Research Excellence in Social, Cultural and Political Change. He is a member of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. And he is a former President of the Australasian Political Studies Association.
Widely recognised as one of Australia's leading academic analysts of public opinion, he is the author or co-author of a number of monographs, most recently Divided Nation? Indigenous Affairs and the Imagined Public (written with Tim Rowse, for Melbourne University Press, 2007). He is editor of a special issue of the International Journal of Public Opinion Research on ‘Public Opinion and The War in Iraq' (2004), and co-editor of Developments in Australian Politics (1994), Make A Better Offer: The Politics of Mabo (1994), Australian Opinion Polls 1977-1990 (1993), Australia's Gulf War (1992), and Australian Opinion Polls 1941-1977 (1978). In addition, he is the author or co-author of over 100 book chapters, contributions to reference works and articles in national and international journals on public opinion and voting behaviour, Australian politics and political parties, and the politics of the media.
Outside Australia, his work has appeared in the Berkeley Journal of Sociology, British Journal of Political Science, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, and the SAGE Professional Papers in Contemporary Political Sociology. In 2005, he was the opening speaker at the plenary session of the Annual Conference of the World Association of Public Opinion Research.
Beyond the academy, he has served as a consultant to several government enquiries, most notably: the Garnaut Review of the Implications for Australia of Economic Growth and Structural Change in East Asia; the FitzGerald Committee to Advise on Australia's Immigration Policy; and the Constitutional Commission chaired by Sir Maurice Byers. He has worked as a consultant on public opinion for a range of government departments - federal, state (NSW and Victoria) and local - and business organisations, including Australian Consolidated Press, Sturgess Australia and John Fairfax & Sons.
As a columnist on public opinion, he has worked for the Times on Sunday, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Financial Review.
