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Australia urgently needs an independent body to hold powerful judges to account
As a female legal academic, former practising lawyer, and judge’s associate, I hope the explosive allegations raised by the inquiry into former High Court judge...
It is my professional culture. I have lived it and observed it.
- Gabrielle Appleby
- The Conversation
We need a moment to expose, examine and fundamentally change a culture that tolerates sexual predation.
In addition, as a legal academic who has studied the systems for complaints against judges for almost a decade, I also hope that these allegations provide a…
It is a vacuum that has allowed sexist, racist and other troubling conduct to go largely unaddressed…