Colin Tatz

Colin Martin Tatz (18 July 1934 – 19 November 2019) was a South African-born Australian political scientist and public intellectual. He was the director of the Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and professor of politics at the University of New England, Armidale, and held positions at the Australian National University in Canberra as well as Macquarie University in Sydney. He published prolifically, including on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and politics, cultural anthropology, and racism in sport.

Early life and education Colin Martin Tatz was born on 18 July 1934 in the inner city suburb of Berea in Johannesburg, South Africa, to Jewish parents.

He attended Yeoville Boys School, a primary school in Yeoville in inner-city Johannesburg. He then attended King Edward VII School in the city, where around 30% of the students were Jewish. He funded his studies by working for the local newspaper, The Natal Witness.

Tatz emigrated to Australia at the end of 1960, after the Sharpeville massacre, with his wife, Sandra (who was pregnant with their first child), after being offered a scholarship by Australian National University (ANU) to work on policy and practice in Aboriginal administration, based on work he had done in South Africa.

Career Tatz was employed at Monash University as a senior lecturer of politics and sociology

From 1971 until 1982 he was foundation professor of politics at the University of New England in Armidale. antisemitism, and racism and discrimination in sport.

Areas of expertise Tatz wrote about topics such as The Holocaust, antisemitism, and racism in sport. He had special expertise in:

From 1999 until 2004, Tatz was director of the Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the Shalom Institute at the University of New South Wales. 1997: Officer of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours List, for service to the community through research into social and legal justice for people disadvantaged by their race, particularly the Aboriginal community, and to promoting the equal participation in community life of all Australians 1997: Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa, University of Natal Black Diamonds: The Aboriginal and Islander Sports Hall of Fame, with Paul Tatz (1996). AFL's Black Stars, by Colin Tatz et al., with an introduction by Michael Long (1998). One-Eyed: a View of Australian Sport, with Douglas Booth (2000). Black Gold: the Aboriginal and Islander Sports Hall of Fame, with Paul Tatz (2000). Aboriginal Suicide is Different: a Portrait of Life and Self-Destruction (2001). A Course of History: Monash Country Club, 1931 – 2001 (2002). Worlds Apart: the Re-Migration of South African Jews, with Peter Arnold and Gillian Heller (2007). Genocide in Australia: By Accident or Design? (2011). Genocide Perspectives IV: Essays on Holocaust and Genocide, ed. Colin Tatz (2012). Human Rights and Human Wrongs: A Life Confronting Racism, Melbourne, Monash University Publishing, 2015. The Magnitude of Genocide, with Winton Higgins, Santa Barbara, CA, Praeger Security International, 2016. Australia's Unthinkable Genocide, Bloomington, IN, Xlibris., 2017. Black Pearls: The Aboriginal and Islander Sports Hall of Fame, with Paul Tatz, Aboriginal Studies Press, 2018. The Sealed Box of Suicide: The Contexts of Self-Death, with Simon Tatz, Zug, Switzerland: Springer. 2019.

Editor and co-editor Aborigines in the Economy, eds. Ian Sharp and Colin Tatz (1966). Aborigines and Education, eds. S.S. Dunn and C.M. Tatz (1969). Black Viewpoints: The Aboriginal Experience, ed. C.M. Tatz (1975). Genocide Perspectives I, editor-in-chief (1997). Genocide Perspectives II: Essays in Holocaust and Genocide, eds. Colin Tatz, Peter Arnold and Sandra Tatz (2003). With Intent to Destroy: Reflecting on Genocide (2003). Genocide Perspectives III: Essays in Holocaust and Genocide, eds. Colin Tatz, Peter Arnold and Sandra Tatz (2006).

Personal life Tatz met his wife, Sandra Cecile Melmed, a researcher and editor, in South Africa, and they married on 9 December 9, 1957. They have three children, including Simon,