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Features Australia

Business/Robbery etc

16 February 2019

9:00 AM

16 February 2019

9:00 AM

Who needs parliament to make laws when there are clever judges who reckon they can do a far better job without having to put up with the inconvenience of having to be democratically elected and accountable for their actions by risking the sack at the ballot box every three or four years? But when judges, like NSW Land and Environment chief judge Brian Preston choose to enter a highly controversial political law-making arena, they leave the privileged state of judges being a protected species; they have to cop justified political attack on their political pontificating – in this case a...

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