Re: Igronance uber alles
medusala said:
This guy is a disgrace. Speaking out against the elected govt and its policies. The media are a bunch of hypocritical muppets. Squealed like stuck pigs when pollies got stuck in to him and others over clueless decisions like Mabo and the concrete leftist McHugh who proclaimed the history of white Australia was "one of unutterable shame". Deafening silence when a high court judge criticises the govt though. He should resign immediately or else never complain again when pollies criticise his hard left dribble he passes off as informed judgement.
I was at the 100th anniversary conference - Alll he said was that Australia is a Country that does not accept extreme ideology and that in such a coutnry an institution that enshrines a "fair go" was only natural.
Your comments on McHugh J are totally ignorant. In that last two years he as consistently made joint judgement with the "Capital C" conservatives on the Bench: namely Gleeson, Gummow,Heydon, Hayne and Callinan - so much for his "hard leftist" stance.
Michael Kirby is one of the most eminent jurists that Australia has ever produced: he was made a Deputy President on the Commission at age 36, became the youngest ever President of the Law Reform Commission, became the youngest ever President of the NSW Court of Appeal and his appointment to the High Court was seen by most lawyers as totally justified on merit.
Your line is similar to that of senator Heffernan who could not attack his judiical record but instead made totally baseless attacks which were thinly vailed prejudice of the most base kind.
For God sake don't waste our time making comments about things you know absolutely nothing about. If you want to talk about judicial activism have a look at the latest judgement of the Court in Electrolux.
The current ideological hegemony empowers tools like you to make attacks based on nothing more than emtpy rhetoric - move over Andrew Bolt and Janet Albrechsen there is a new kid on the block