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Can the Libs move just a smidgen to the right, please?

The Coalition’s appointments are woeful

14 March 2020

9:00 AM

14 March 2020

9:00 AM

Much has been said of late, not least by me, about the absolute and unequivocal uselessness of this Coalition government when it comes to appointing top judges to the High Court. The last three picks, all made in the Abbott and Turnbull years by one George Brandis QC, have shown not a trace of support for real federalism; done zip, zero, nothing to wind back the judicially made-up ‘implied freedoms’ jurisprudence that allows (or that the judges have decreed allows) these same judges to pass final word judgement on what legislation is reasonable and proportional – as if a Constitution...

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