Constitutional Recognition and Those Judges

In the last little while we have now had two former Chief Justices of the High Court of Australia weigh in on the issue of recognising indigenous Australians in our Constitution.  This will shock you, I know, but both are broadly in favour. You probably didn’t see that coming from top members of today’s legal fraternity, did you?  Or in less sarcastic terms, I think all readers know deep down that the chances of hearing a top former judge come out against this sort of proposal are orders of magnitude less likely than having former top judges come out in favour of this latest ‘progressive’ cause de jour.

What is more surprising is that the Morrison government, fresh from its big recent election win, would be daft enough to bring this issue back from the deceased state it was in after former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (of all people) seemingly killed and buried it, at least until the day a Labor government came into office.  Why would any supposedly right-of-centre…