My Spectator Australia colleagues Ramesh Thakur and James Allan have written in these pages about the perils of an unelected judiciary that seeks to impose its self-righteous progressivism on government and public policy, and how dangerous that is for democracy.

As Allan wrote regarding the High Court’s recent decision in the Yunupingu case, ‘in which our top judges overturned a half-century old precedent that had been affirmed and affirmed and affirmed, the way they overturned Al-Kateb last year to make dealing with illegal immigrants brutally difficult, however dangerous they might be’.