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Cameron Hazlehurst is a Foundation Principal of The Ethicos Group, a specialist consultancy  in public sector governance and corporate integrity. Since 1998 he has been Principal of his own public affairs consulting, media production, and communications management company (Flaxton Mill House).

Previously Dr Hazlehurst was Foundation Professor and Head of the School of Humanities at Queensland University of Technology (1992-97), a Teaching Fellow in History, Monash University (1964-65), Junior Research Fellow, Nuffield College (1968-70) and The Queen’s College, Oxford (1970-72), Lecturer in Politics, University College, Oxford (1969-72), Fellow and Senior Fellow in the Research School of Social Sciences at ANU (1972-92), and Academic Adviser to the ANU Vice Chancellor (part-time 1979).

Dr Hazlehurst’s limited term academic appointments include Visiting Fellow, Institute of Modern Biography, Griffith University (1978-80); Visiting Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences ANU (1992-2000); Visiting Fellow, Trevelyan College and Society of Fellows, University of Durham (1990, 1993); Albert M. Greenfield Fellow, The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, New York (1990-93); Adjunct Professor of Government, The Hawke Research Institute, University of South Australia (2002-05); Adjunct Professor then Honorary Professor, Humanities Research Centre ANU (2005-26); Fellow, Australian Prime Ministers Centre (2011-12); Archives By-Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge (2015); Sassoon Visiting Fellow, the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (2016).

Dr Hazlehurst has served in Australian government posts as Assistant Secretary, Information Service, Department of Urban and Regional Development (1973-75), First Assistant Secretary, Communications Strategy, Department of Communications (1984-86), and National Campaign Director, AIDS Education and Information, Department of Community Services and Health (1988-89). He was Chairman of the Community Consultative Committee of the National Registration Authority for Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (1996-2003) and chaired the New South Wales Pesticides Implementation Committee (1999-2004). He was  a member of the NSW Radiation Advisory Council as the representative of community interests (2005-11) and chaired the NSW Environmental Trust Environmental Hazards Subcommittee (2014-19).

Among Dr Hazlehurst’s policy consulting roles have been assignments with the Queensland Electoral and Administrative Reform Commission, the Commonwealth Department of Health, and the Queensland Corrective Services Commission (in conjunction with the Ministry of Justice, the Department of Community Services, and the Queensland Police Service), Broadcom, and TVW Enterprises. With The Ethicos Group he is currently developing a Workplace Help-Key – an App on a secure USB drive to assist in combatting Workplace Bullying, Sexual Harassment, and Whistleblower Retaliation.>

Hazlehurst’s articles and books on Australian government and political history, include biographical studies (Menzies Observed, Allen & Unwin, 1979 and Gordon Chalk: A Political Life, DDIP, 1987), Australian Conservatism (ed. ANU Press, 1979), Reforming Australian Government (ed. with John Nethercote, ANU Press for RIPA, 1977), ‘Australian Statisticians and Australian Official Statistics’ (with Colin Forster, Yearbook Australia, 1988), Ten Journeys to Cameron’s Farm: an Australian Tragedy (ANU E Press 2013, revised ed. 2015), and essays on ‘The Dawn of the Satellite Era in Australia’ (Media Information Australia, Nov. 1990) and ‘The Advent of Commercial Television’, Australian Cultural History, 1982-83).  

His major books on British political history are Politicians at War July 1914 to May 1915 (Jonathan Cape and Alfred Knopf, 1971), A Liberal Chronicle, Journals and Papers of J. A. Pease, 1st Lord Gainford, 1908-1910 (ed. with Christine Woodland, The Historians’ Press, 1995), and A Guide to the Papers of British Cabinet Ministers 1900-1964 (with Sally Whitehead and Christine Woodland, Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 1996). With Christine Woodland he is currently completing an edition of the 1911-15 political journals of the British Cabinet Minister J. A. (Jack) Pease, 1^st Lord Gainford, for publication by Oxford University Press.

Essays and reviews in British political history have appeared in History, English Historical Review, Irish Historical Studies, Twentieth Century British History, Historical Studies, Journal of Modern History, Victorian Studies, The International History Review, The Times, The Sunday Times, The New Statesman, The Observer (of which he was Historical Correspondent 1971-72), The Washington Post, The Canberra Times, and contributions to collections of essays, encyclopaedias, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004), introductions to editions of Winston S. Churchill, The People’s Rights (Jonathan Cape,1970),The Lloyd George Liberal Magazine (Harvester Press, Brighton, !974), and The History of the Ministry of Munitions (Harvester Microform Publications, 1976).

Another strand of Dr Hazlehurst’s work, in collaboration with Dr Kayleen Hazlehurst, has embraced Aboriginal community justice issues including ‘Race and the Australian conscience: Investigating Aboriginal deaths in custody’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol.16, 1989; and studies of criminal gangs, most notably their edited volume Gangs and Youth Subcultures: International Explorations (Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ,1998). His research on gangs and public order in New Zealand is distilled in ‘Observing New Zealand “Gangs”, 1950-2000: learning from a small country’, in John M. Hagedorn (ed.), Gangs and the Global City: Exploring Alternatives to Traditional Criminology (University of Illinois Press, 2007).

As a consultant on historical and archival matters, Dr Hazlehurst has been engaged  by Australian Airlines, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the Commonwealth Department of Health and Human Services, the Seven Television Network, and the British publishers Jonathan Cape and Paladin Books, for whom he was Advisory Editor of the Paladin History of England. He was Keeper of the Archives of Business and Labour (now the Noel Butlin Archives Centre) at the ANU 1988-92, director of the Leverhulme Foundation funded U.K. Political Records Project, and a consultant to the Bodleian Library on modern political papers. From 1990 to 1999 he was a member of the editorial board of the Australian Dictionary of Biography and its Commonwealth Working Party chairman; he has contributed 12 entries to the ADB. He was a foundation member of the Commonwealth Government’s Museums Advisory Board 1980-81 and Secretary of the Australian Historical Association 1990-92.

In addition to his academic and government appointments, Hazlehurst has been executive producer or research consultant on several major television series, including the BBC’s British Empire, Peach’s Australia (ABC), The Last Bastion (Network Ten Australia), Close-Up (ABC), and Mastermind (ABC). He was a co-director with Noni Hazlehurst of Lionheart Productions, 1999-2005. In collaboration with Howard Whitton, he produced a Public Sector Ethics Resource Series on CD-ROM. The package, originally commissioned by government authorities in Australia and New Zealand, has been licensed and adapted for use in the United Kingdom, and by anti-corruption agencies in Lithuania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Poland, Estonia, Nigeria, and Vietnam.

Dr Hazlehurst was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1971 and the Royal Society of Literature in 1973.