From the Grave.

I read an article online today from The Australian, by Clive Williams (I think). It was actually published a few days ago. In it he talked about the fact that there's three high court judges who reach the age of 70 in the next couple of years, the first in August (?), the other two next year. From memory, it's the chief justice this year, and Kirby J is one of the ones to go next year. Of course, the significance of this is that honest john gets the chance to appoint at least one more high court judge during his tenure (and possibly three).

When you consider that fact that he has already appointed 6 (?) during his reign, with Menzies being the only top dick to appoint more (9(?)), you can see that he has well and truly had opportunity to stack the highest constitutional court in the land with men (they are all men, again, since the absence of Gaudron J) whom he believes are of his ilk. And johnny's canny enough to know that by getting it right he can influence the future of this country for the long term.

From the grave. So to speak.