Elizabeth Teresa Humphrys is an Australian political economist, policy analyst and author at the University of Technology Sydney.
Humphrys is notable for her research on the Australian Labor Party, the Hawke government and trade unions in the implementation of neoliberalism in Australia.
She later undertook a Graduate Certificate in Social Inquiry and a Master of Arts research qualification at the University of Technology Sydney.
Along with her collaborator, Sarah Gregson, Humphrys has received press attention about the history of the West Gate Bridge collapse, which occurred in 1970.
United Workers Union leader Godfrey Moase argues alternatively that the book helps the labour movement come to terms with the Accord period, and that ‘Humphrys writes with the compassion of a comrade and the insight of an intellectual who grew up in a working-class household’.
In 2000 Humphrys helped organise the s11 protest against the meeting of the World Economic Forum in Melbourne, which blockaded the Crown Casino over three days.