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Dr H. V. ("Doc") Evatt, 1894-1965

Biography

HERBERT VERE EVATT was the most academically honoured politician Australia has produced. He was also one of the most controversial. He was a genius who made outstanding contributions to Australian legal and historical writing and a statesman whose name was respected throughout the world. Yet many people saw his life as being a tragic failure, the story of a man who came within an ace of being Prime Minister but who ended his days depicted by the media as disloyal and a communist sympathizer. Those who knew him, however, saw that the many fine achievements of his life more than outweighed the lost Prime Ministership. They see him, not as a tragic figure, but as one of the greatest Australians. 

He always said, "If you have enemies, forget their names. Don't remember them at all." 

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Evatt was born on 30 April 1894, on the coalfields of East Maitland in the New South Wales Hunter Riv