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Nominated by then Prime Minister Bob Hawke, Justice Mary Gaudron ...

Australian Labor Party

Nominated by then Prime Minister Bob Hawke, Justice Mary Gaudron was appointed at age 43 to be a justice of the High Court of Australia. Over the following 16 years, she was an instrumental member of a productive Court, contributing key judgments to all areas of the law.

Justice Gaudron is perhaps best remembered popularly for the Mabo case, where, in a joint judgment with Justice Deane, she said that Australia’s past treatment of Indigenous Australians was “the darkest aspect of the history of this nation”.

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