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High Court judge warns of world’s ‘slide towards autocracy’

Maxim Shanahan

High Court justice Robert Beech-Jones has warned that democracy and the rule of law is under threat from “the harvesting of outrage, grievance and hate” and “the perpetuation of lies on a grand scale”.

Justice Beech-Jones did not name any country or individual in his John William Perry oration in Adelaide late last month, delivered during the final fortnight of a tense US presidential election campaign.

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Maxim Shanahan is a professional services reporter at the Australian Financial Review. Email Maxim at max.shanahan@nine.com.au

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