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Sir Ninian Stephen: A tribute edited by Timothy L.K. McCormack and Cheryl Saunders

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April 2007, no. 290

Sir Ninian Stephen: A tribute edited by Timothy L.K. McCormack and Cheryl Saunders

Miegunyah Press, $65 hb, 294 pp

Sir Ninian Stephen: A tribute edited by Timothy L.K. McCormack and Cheryl Saunders

by
April 2007, no. 290

The plans for this book were announced at the time of Ninian Stephen’s eightieth birthday, almost four years ago. Each of the ten contributors focuses on one of his public roles in the last thirty-five years – five of them in Australia, and five on the international stage. The last of the Australian positions, ambassador for the environment, is a bridge between the two. Kenneth Keith’s chapter finds another bridge: in Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen (1982), on Stephen’s last day as a High Court judge, his judgment decisively transformed the issue of racial discrimination in Queensland by recognising its international potency.

Tony Blackshield reviews 'Sir Ninian Stephen: A tribute' edited by Timothy L.K. McCormack and Cheryl Saunders

Sir Ninian Stephen: A tribute

edited by Timothy L.K. McCormack and Cheryl Saunders

Miegunyah Press, $65 hb, 294 pp

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