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What better idea, in a week featuring International Women's Day, than to celebrate an old white man (just the one) who once graced our courts.
Hear us out. It probably helps to think of the man as a boy: a boy growing up in the servants' quarters occupied by his poor Irish Catholic family in the 1820s; a whip-smart boy who could have followed in his father's horse grooming footsteps, but instead became Attorney-General and Premier of New South Wales (for long stretches between 1863 and 1872, both at once), and, ultimately, the nation's first Aussie chief justice.
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