Jamie Mackie (academic)

James Austin Copland Mackie (27 September 1924–21 April 2011), known as Jamie Mackie,^[1] was an Australian academic, described by The Australian as one of the country's "pioneers of its post-war engagement with Asia"^[2] and by The Age as having had a "distinguished academic career to the study of post-colonial south-east Asia."^[2] Born in Kandy to the Australian manager of a tea plantation,^[3] he studied in Melbourne and Oxford before working "with the Colombo Plan in Jakarta from 1956 to 1958, working with the newly established National Planning Bureau."^[2] He taught at the University of Melbourne (1958–1967)^[4] and Monash University (1968–1978)^[4] and edited the ASAA Review. He is also credited with playing a major role in the dismantling of the White Australia policy, which severely restricted non-White migration.^[5] After his death, the J.A.C. Mackie Memorial Endowment was established by the Australian National University to fund travel scholarships to Southeast Asia for undergraduate or graduate students.^[6][7]