‘Dynamite’ speech sets one High Court judge against another

SMH · Michael Bachelard · Friday 29 May 2026

‘Dynamite’ speech sets one High Court judge against another

A judge has taken aim at people he says want to import “US-style court stacking” to Australia.

Two of the country's seven highest judges feuding in public lectures about whether we'll start stacking the bench American-style — and the beauty of it is we haven't even got the disease yet, we've just imported the anxiety, flat-packed and ready to assemble. The High Court used to settle the argument. Now it's having one at the lectern.

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