The Morrison government will be hoping it can reshape the High Court with its next two appointments. The Financial Review reveals five leading candidates and two wild cards.
The Kiefel High Court (from left): Michelle Gordon, Patrick Keane, Virginia Bell, Chief Justice Susan Kiefel, Stephen Gageler, Geoffrey Nettle, James Edelman.
Choosing a High Court judge is hard enough. But on February 11 this year, the task became a lot more complicated.
In the most contentious decision since Mabo, the court ruled 4-3 in Love v The Commonwealth that a non-citizen who passed an Aboriginality test could not be deported under migration character laws.
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