Australia must be prepared to stick up for the international rule of law system that has contributed to our nation’s security, peace, and stability for decades.
The NSW Supreme Court Chief Justice Andrew Bell’s speech on Thursday was a rare intervention into public debate by a senior judicial officer. Addressing the Law Society of NSW, Bell acknowledged that “recent events both domestically and abroad have generated a sense of great disquiet and anxiety about the state of society and the rule of law in our contemporary world”.
The threats to the rule of law singled out by the judge included Elon Musk – the Telsa founder, X-owner and Donald Trump’s efficiency tsar – making “flippant puns” about Nazi figures and endorsing a far-right German political party that fanned antisemitism.
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