After such a long hot summer it is oddly refreshing to be back in Canberra for the start of the 2017 political season. However my first big commitment is not political, but judicial. The nation’s entire legal establishment gathers at the High Court on the last Monday in January as Susan Kiefel becomes the 13th Chief Justice and James Edelman the 53rd member of the Court.
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