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Australia is lagging behind the world's best on judicial appointments reform

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imageAustralia’s method of appointing judges to its highest courts is opaque and informal.AAP/Lukas Coch

Retired judge Kenneth Hayne recently told a conference audience that he had no warning of his appointment to the High Court in 1997. The federal attorney-general simply telephoned one afternoon to offer him the position, confirmed the...

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