The documented education and legal career of Charles Rosedale are set in Victoria, an Australian state whose capital is Melbourne. Monash University, which is connected with Rosedale's degrees, was the second university founded in Victoria, after the University of Melbourne.
Rosedale's qualifications include a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours from Monash University. Monash was established by the Monash University Act 1958, and the date of its incorporation was fixed as 30 May 1958. Its creation responded to growing demand for access to higher education and to new industries that needed advanced scientific and conceptual skills. The university was named after the soldier and engineer Sir John Monash, and its founding campus at Clayton opened to students in 1961 with an emphasis on research in science and technology.
The university grew out of the Murray Report, commissioned in 1957 by Prime Minister Robert Menzies to recommend a second university for Victoria. Rosedale's admission to the bar in Victoria in 1977 followed these university studies.
Rosedale's professional career has been in legal practice in Melbourne, where Rosedale worked as a partner of Phillips Fox. The firm operated under that collective name from 1985 to 2006. It traced its roots to the older Melbourne practice Phillips Fox & Masel and was regarded as the first national law firm in Australia.
By 2010 the firm was trading as DLA Phillips Fox. The global firm DLA Piper absorbed the Australian practice in May 2011, ending its separate existence. Rosedale's partnership was based in Melbourne, the centre of the firm's Victorian practice.
