Justice michael kirby biography of mahatma

In he was appointed as a Deputy President of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and from was also inaugural chairman of the Australian Law Reform Commission. In he was appointed as one of the seven Justices of the High Court. During his first year, Kirby was plunged into the Wik Peoples vs The State of Queensland case, the first major Indigenous land title case following the Mabo decision of In December Kirby was among the judges who ruled that the grant of certain Queensland pastoral leases under past Land Acts did not extinguish Indigenous people's rights and interests in the land involved — referring personally to the 'duty which the Crown owed, in honour, to native people who were under the Crown's protection'.

In response to the Wik decision, in the Australian Government amended the Native Title Act, which had arisen out of the Mabo case. Kirby was President of the International Commission of Jurists from to ; during this period, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by his alma mater, the University of Sydney. Functional Functional Always active The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the visitor, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.

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But Michael Kirby said there was no doubt it was an intimate one. It's a philosophy the Honourable Michael Kirby himself has always lived by. Discover more podcasts Download the ABC listen app to hear more of your favourite podcasts. Back to top. Footer ABC listen. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Charles Sturt University D. Curtin University D.

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