The long march though our institutions seems to be gathering pace. The latest targets are the courts and the  judges who preside over them, if a recent report by the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration  (AIJA) is any guide. I have no objection to subjecting our institutions to scrutiny. But if we are going to have campaigns for so-called reform, they should be explicit and hold out some prospect of improving the institutions we already have, instead of damaging them.