Justin Harding was born in Townsville, North Queensland, in 1963. He holds first-class honours and doctoral degrees in political science and constitutional history and has worked as a public servant, academic and policy adviser. Now semi-retired, Dr Harding has an online research, writing and editorial consultancy, and is active in Tasmanian politics. His great loves are dogs, cooking, halfway decent Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, electoral systems and constitutions based on Westminster.
