It has been said that hypocrisy is the compliment that vice pays to virtue. If so, Australia’s Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, knows a thing or two about paying compliments. Of course the hypocritical aspect of Ms Bryce’s recent ABC Boyer Lecture is only one of many wrongheaded things about that lecture.
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James Allan is the Garrick professor of law at the University of Queensland and until Christmas is on sabbatical at Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto.
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