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John Bryson reviews 'From Moree to Mabo: The Mary Gaudron Story' by Pamela Burton

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April 2011, no. 330

John Bryson reviews 'From Moree to Mabo: The Mary Gaudron Story' by Pamela Burton

by
April 2011, no. 330

Australia’s feisty first female High Court judge

John Bryson

 

From Moree to Mabo: The Mary Gaudron Story
by Pamela Burton
UWA Publishing, $49.95 pb, 511 pp, 9781742580982

 

H.V. Evatt, on the hustings during an election campaign, was asked by an eight-year-old girl, ‘What is the Constitution?’ and later mailed her a copy. The girl was Mary Gaudron, whose path to the High Court was set from that moment.

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