Solicitor-General Stephen Donaghue, KC, got mixed reviews for his speech at the 2023 Victorian Bar dinner after he waded into the controversy over the Indigenous Voice to parliament referendum.
The government’s chief legal adviser told the shindig at Melbourne’s Plaza Ballroom on May 26 there was “nothing wrong” with lawyers playing a role in the increasingly fractious public debate.
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Michael Pelly is the legal editor, based in our Sydney newsroom. He has been a senior adviser to federal and state attorneys-general and written two books, one a biography of former High Court Chief Justice Murray Gleeson. Email Michael at michael.pelly@afr.com
