One of the nation’s most distinguished legal minds has called on the public not to be seduced and taken in by the growing push to destabilise the judicial process by campaigning against the courts.
This was one of many points touched on by the Honourable Margaret McMurdo who delivered the 2017 Tony Fitzgerald Lecture at the Queensland State Library.
In her 45 minute speech, the first woman to be the head of an appellate court in Australia, delivered a thought-provoking and entertaining discourse focusing on governance in Queensland thirty years after the start of the landmark Fitzgerald Inquiry into official corruption.
For many in the audience too young to remember Fitzgerald and its origins, the lecture provided an excellent summation of the Queensland political landscape which led to the three-year inquiry and its subsequent game-changing recommendations.
Justice McMurdo then presented a report card on the ‘state of the state’, detailing her thoughts on the
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