1. Alexandra Hasluck published a number of works on the history of Western Australia.
14 Facts About Alexandra Hasluck
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Alexandra Hasluck was the wife of Sir Paul Hasluck, Governor-General of Australia.
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Alexandra Hasluck was the only child of Evelyn Margaret and John William Darker.
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Alexandra Hasluck's father was an engineer and her mother was one of the first female graduates of the University of Sydney.
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Alexandra Hasluck attended Ormiston College from 1914 to 1918 and Perth College from 1919 to 1925.
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Alexandra Hasluck went on to attend the University of Western Australia, graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1929.
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Alexandra Hasluck was a sub-editor of the university magazine Black Swan and enrolled in an honours course, but had to discontinue her research on the Arthurian legend for financial reasons.
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Alexandra Hasluck subsequently taught English and French at a small private school and later at St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls.
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In 1974 he was offered an extension of his term by the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, and he was willing to serve an extra two years, but Lady Alexandra Hasluck refused to remain at Yarralumla longer than the originally agreed five years.
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Historians of the period are certain that if Alexandra Hasluck had still been Governor-General in 1975, as he would have been had his wife not intervened, the constitutional crisis of that year would have ended differently.
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Alexandra Hasluck himself implied this in his book, The Office of Governor-General and in the Queale Lecture.
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Alexandra Hasluck developed an interest in the history of Western Australia at university, which she shared with her husband, and in 1934 she replaced him as honorary secretary of the Western Australian Historical Society.
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Alexandra Hasluck published eleven books on history as well as a collection of short stories and an autobiography.
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Alexandra Hasluck's writing was targeted at general readers and "brought the history of Western Australia to a popular audience at a time when the State's historiography was in its infancy".