1. Addresses
The Hon Justice Murray GLEESON, AC was educated at St Joseph's College and the University of Sydney (Arts/Law, 1961). Admitted to the NSW Bar in 1963, he practised as Barrister-at-Law while tutoring in Law at St Paul's College, University of Sydney (1963--65) and lecturing in Law part-time at the University of Sydney (1965--74) before becoming Queen's Counsel in 1974. He was a member of the Council of the NSW Bar Association (1979--86) (President 1984--86). In 1988 he was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of NSW, serving in that post (and as President of the Judicial Commission of NSW) until his appointment, in 1998, as Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.
The Hon Justice Lloyd WADDY was educated at Cranbrook School, The Kings School Parramatta and the University of Sydney (LLB, 1962). He was admitted to the NSW Bar in 1963 and practised there as Barrister-at-Law (Queen's Counsel, 1988) until his appointment, in 1998, as a Judge of the Family Court of Australia. He was the Foundation President (1963--65) of the University of Sydney Law Graduates Association; Foundation Director of the Australia-Britain Society of NSW (1971--97); a Fellow of St Paul's College, University of Sydney since 1971; Director of the Marionette Theatre of Australia (1974--88); and Chairman of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust since 1992, among many other such activities. In 1992 he became the Foundation National Convenor of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy, attending in that capacity (as an appointed delegate) the 1998 Constitutional Convention in Canberra, but resigning from that role on his judicial appointment later that year.
2. Conference Contributors
Piers AKERMAN was educated at Christchurch Grammar School
and Guildford Grammar School (Perth) before embarking on a lifelong
career in the media commencing at The West Australian in
1968. After working in Melbourne, Sydney and New York, he became
Foreign Editor of The Australian in 1983, Special Projects
Editor of The Times, London in 1987 and then, successively,
Editor of The Advertiser, Adelaide (1988) and The Sunday
Herald, Melbourne (1990). During 1990--92 he was Editor-in-Chief
of The Herald and Weekly Times group in Melbourne before becoming
a Vice-President of Fox News, USA in 1993. Since 1994 he has been
a regular columnist for The Daily Telegraph and The
Sunday Telegraph in Sydney.
Dr Janet ALBRECHTSEN was educated at Seacombe High School, Adelaide
and the University of Adelaide (LLB Hons, 1987). After admission
to the NSW Bar in 1988 she worked as a solicitor with Freehill,
Hollingdale and Page (1988--91), and as a tutor at the University
of Sydney Law School while studying for her PhD in Law which she
completed in 2000. Subsequently, as a journalist, she has written
for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The
Australian Financial Review. Nowadays, she contributes a regular
weekly column to The Australian.
Dr Nicholas ARONEY was educated at Wahroonga Christian Academy,
at the Universities of New South Wales (BA, Political Science,
1988) and Queensland (LLB Hons, 1992; LLM, 1994), and at Monash
University (PhD, 2001). As a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University
of Queensland, he teaches constitutional law, human rights and
equal opportunity law, and legal theory, and has published widely
in constitutional law, including his book Freedom of Speech
in the Constitution (1988). His prize-winning PhD thesis was
on the topic The Federal Commonwealth of Australia: A Study
in the Formation of its Constitution, and his next book, Federal
Constitutionalism: Theory and Practice, will be published
in 2003.
Professor David FLINT,
AM was educated at Sydney Boys
High School, at the Universities of Sydney (LLB, 1961; LLM, 1975)
and London (BScEcon, 1978), and at L'Université de Droit,
de l'Économie et des Sciences Sociale, Paris (DSU, 1979).
After admission as a Solicitor of the NSW Supreme Court in 1962,
he practised as a solicitor (1962--72) before moving into University
teaching, holding several academic posts before becoming Professor
of Law at Sydney University of Technology in 1989. In 1987 he
became Chairman of the Australian Press Council, and in 1992 Chairman
of the Executive Council of the World Association of Press Councils.
Since October, 1997 he has been Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting
Authority. He is the author of numerous publications and in 1991
was honoured as World Outstanding Legal Scholar by the World Jurists
Association. During the 1999 Referendum campaign on the Republic
issue, he played a prominent part in the "No" Case Committee,
and he remains today the National Convenor of the Australians
for Constitutional Monarchy.
Steven FRANKS, MP (NZ) was educated at Taihape College, central
North Island, and Victoria University, Wellington (BA/LLB (Hons),
1974; Dip.Acc., 1979). He was admitted to the New Zealand Bar
in 1975, spent two years in the Office of the Ombudsman (1977--79),
and in 1979 joined the national law firm Chapman Tripp, of which
he subsequently became Chairman (1993--95). His law career was
chiefly in the area of company and securities law, which in turn
involved acting in an advisory capacity to numerous governmental
and industry bodies and appointment as a member of the New Zealand
Stock Exchange's Market Surveillance Panel (1989--1998; Deputy
Chairman 1994--95). A widely reported commentator on company and
securities law, he became a Member of the New Zealand Legislative
Assembly in 1999, representing the ACT Party (being re-elected
for that party on 27 July, 2002).
The Rt Hon Sir Harry
GIBBS, GCMG, AC, KBE was educated
at Ipswich Grammar School and Emmanuel College at the University
of Queensland (BA Hons, 1937; LLB, 1939; LLM, 1946) and was admitted
to the Queensland Bar in 1939. After serving in the AMF (1939--42),
and the AIF (1942--45), he became a Queen's Counsel in 1957, and
was appointed, successively, a Judge of the Queensland Supreme
Court (1962--67), a Judge of the Federal Court of Bankruptcy (1967--70),
a Justice of the High Court of Australia (1970--81) and Chief
Justice of the High Court (1981--87). In 1987 he became Chairman
of the Review into Commonwealth Criminal Law, and since 1990 he
has been Chairman of the Australian Tax Research Foundation. In
1992 he became, and remains, the founding President of The Samuel
Griffith Society.
Dr Stephen HALL was educated at Mt Carmel College, Charters
Towers and at the University of Queensland (LLB, 1987), the University
of Technology, Sydney (LLM, 1991) and Oxford University (D.Phil,
1994). A Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of New South
Wales, he was formerly the Director there of its European Law
Centre, but now publishes and teaches in the area of European
Union law and international law. He has recently been appointed
Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong's School
of Law, where he took up his duties in August, 2002.
The Hon Justice Kenneth
HANDLEY, AO was educated at
Cranbrook School and the University of Sydney (BA, 1954; LLB Hons,
1957). After admission to the NSW Bar in 1959 he spent 30 years
as a Barrister-at-Law (Queens Counsel, 1973), becoming President
of the NSW Bar Association (1987--89) and President of the Australian
Bar Association (1988--89). In 1990 he was appointed to his present
post as Judge of the Court of Appeal of the NSW Supreme Court.
In 1980 he became Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney,
and in 1986 a member of Lincoln's Inn (London). Among his publications
are Res Judicata (1996) and Actionable Misrepresentation
(2000).
Professor John McMILLAN was educated at Canberra High School and the
Australian National University (ANU) (Arts/Law, 1972), and became
Associate to the then Chief Justice of the High Court in 1973.
After lecturing in Law at the University of NSW (1974--77) and
some time in private legal practice, he worked in the Office of
the Commonwealth Ombudsman (1979--80) before returning to lecturing
at the ANU. In 2000 he became Professor of Law there, holding
the Alumni Chair in Administrative Law. He is currently President
of the Australian Institute of Administrative Law, a consultant
to the national law firm Clayton Utz, and a frequent commentator
on developments in immigration law in Australia.
The Hon Philip RUDDOCK,
MHR was educated at Barker College
(Hornsby) and the University of Sydney (BA, 1964; LLB, 1966).
After a brief career as a solicitor (1967--1973), he entered the
House of Representatives in 1973 as Liberal Member for Parramatta
and is now, as Member for Berowra, the longest serving Member
of the House. After periods as Shadow Minister for Immigration
and Ethnic Affairs (1984--85 and 1989--93) and Shadow Minister
for Social Security (1993--96), in 1996 he became (and remains)
Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. Since the
last federal election (2001) he has also become Minister for Reconciliation
and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs.
John STONE was educated at Perth Modern School, the University
of Western Australia (BSc Hons, 1950) and then, as a Rhodes Scholar,
at New College, Oxford (BA Hons, 1954). He joined the Australian
Treasury in 1954, and over a Treasury career of 30 years served
in a number of posts at home and abroad, including as Australia's
Executive Director in both the IMF and the World Bank in Washington,
DC (1967--70). In 1979 he became Secretary to the Treasury, resigning
from that post---and from the Commonwealth Public Service---in
1984. Since that time he has been, at one time and another, a
Professor at Monash University, a newspaper columnist, a company
director, a Senator for Queensland and Leader of the National
Party in the Senate and Shadow Minister for Finance. In 1996--97
he served as a member of the Defence Efficiency Review, and in
1999 he was a member of the Victorian Committee for the No Republic
Campaign. He now writes for The Adelaide Review.
Professor Geoffrey de Q WALKER was educated at a number of State High Schools and the Universities of Sydney (LLB, 1962) and Pennsylvania (LLM, 1963 and SJD, 1966). He was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1965, and practised both there and in industry before becoming an Assistant Commissioner with the Trade Practices Commission (1974--78). He taught law at the University of Pennsylvania (1963--64), the University of Sydney (1965--74) and the Australian National University (1978--85), before becoming, in 1985, Professor of Law (and, in 1988, Dean of the Faculty of Law) at the University of Queensland. In 1996 he retired from that post to resume private practice in Sydney. He is the author of four books and a large number of articles on a variety of legal topics, including in particular citizens-initiated referendum systems and, more recently, federalism.