Despite being a parliamentary candidate in 1969, French'sRobert experience in elected office was limited to a single term on Claremont Town Council in the early 1970s; PellyMichael, ‘Master of the Bench’, The Australian (Sydney), 31 July 2008, 13.
2.
ReevesJohn is also an Additional Judge of the NT Supreme Court.
3.
Names and identities of the individuals interviewed have been kept confidential.
4.
NelsonGarrison, Pathways to the US Supreme Court (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) 5.
5.
GoldmanSheldon, Picking Federal Judges: Lower Court Selection from Roosevelt through Reagan (Yale University Press, 1997) 352–355.
6.
RobinsonNick, The Declining Dominance of Lawyers in US Federal Politics' (Working Paper 2015–10, Harvard Law School, 1 November 2015) 19.
7.
SnellJames GVaughanFrederick, The Supreme Court of Canada (University of Toronto Press, 1985) 199–200.
8.
The seven were WhitlamGoughSneddenBillyEllicottRobertEnderbyKepMurphyLionelGreenwoodIvorEverettMerv.
9.
BrandisGeorge, The Lawyer's Duty to Public Life' (2010–11) Bar News118, 122.
10.
Ibid124.
11.
MenziesRobert, Afternoon Light: Some Memories of Men and Events (Penguin, 2nd ed, 1969) 318.
12.
MaherLaurence W, ‘Menzies, Menzies, Robert Gordon’ in BlackshieldCoperWilliams (eds), Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia (OUP, 2001) 478.
WadeJan, ‘Mistrust, Malice and Misinformation’ in BurchellLeigh (eds), The Prince's New Clothes' (UNSW Press, 2002) 86.
19.
JonesKate, ‘Professional Politicians as the Subjects of Moral Panic’ (2008) 43(2) Australian Journal of Political Science243, 243–244.
20.
Ibid250.
21.
For analysis and debunking of this caricature, see ibid250–251.
22.
CavalierRodney, ‘Could Chifley Win Labor Preselection Today?’ in JonesBarry (ed), Coming to the Party (MUP, 2006) 57.
23.
With regard to this trend within the Australian Labor Party, see, eg, CavalierRodney, ‘The Labor Party’ in CluneSmith (eds), From Carr to Keneally (Allen & Unwin, 2012) 9.
24.
BurchellDavid, ‘Perpetual Disillusionment’ in BurchellLeigh, above n 18, 62.
25.
LeighAndrew, ‘Explaining distrust: Popular attitudes towards politicians in Australia and the United States’ in BurchellLeigh, above n 18, 47.
26.
Brandis, above n 9, 123.
27.
Burchell, above n 24, 62.
28.
Opportunities for ‘patronage’ may also be diminished by attempts to increase transparency and consultation in the appointments process, as with the previous Labor Government's reforms to federal judicial appointments: see HandsleyElizabethLynchAndrew, ‘Facing up to Diversity? Transparency and the Reform of Commonwealth Judicial Appointments 2008–13’ (2015) 37(2) Sydney Law Review187.
29.
GalliganBrian, ‘The Barwick Court’ in DixonWilliams (eds), The High Court, the Constitution one Australian Politics (CUP, 2015) 210; WhitlamGough, The Truth of the Matter (Allen Lane, 1979) 39.
30.
HockingJenny, Gough Whitlam: His TimeVol II (Miegunyah Press, 2012) 209.
31.
See, eg, HallRichardIremongerJohn, The Makers and the Breakers (Wellington Lane Press, 1976) 183–4.
32.
See, eg, BlackshieldAR, ‘The “Murphy Affair’” in ScuttJocelynne (ed), Lionel Murphy: A Radical Judge (McCulloch Publishing, 1987) 230–57.
33.
Galligan, above n 29, 211.
34.
AroneyNicholasPatapanHaig, The Gibbs Court' in DixonWilliams (eds), above n 29, 220.
35.
BlackshieldAR, ‘Judges and the Court System’ in EvansGareth J (ed), Labor and the Constitution1972–1975 (Heinemann, 1977) 119; HockingJenny, Lionel Murphy (CUP, 1997) 247–8.
36.
DixonRosalindWilliamsGeorge, ‘Introduction’ in DixonWilliams (eds), above n 29, 13.
37.
LeeHPCampbellEnid, The Australian Judiciary (CUP, 2nd ed, 2013) 119.
Although many cases with political ramifications have involved constitutional principles (see, eg, Unions NSW v New South Wales (2013) 252 CLR 530), others may turn upon the interpretation of particular statutes (see, eg, Plaintiff M70 v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship (2011) 244 CLR 144) or broader common law principles (see, eg, Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992) 175 CLR 1). The courts' interaction with politics is hence not restricted to the field of constitutional law, or even public law more broadly.
Australian Capital Television Pty Ltd v Commonwealth (1992) 177 CLR 106; Theophanous v Herald and Weekly Times Ltd (1994) 182 CLR 104; Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1997) 189 CLR 520.
61.
Plaintiff M70 v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship (2011) 244 CLR 144.
