the high court’s ambassadors: latham, dixon and stephen compared Introduced by the Hon Justice AC Dr Philip Ayres

high court of public lecture , Courtroom 1 10 September 2014 — 6pm

RSVP by 3 Sept 2014 [email protected] Inquiries (02) 6270 6893 Dr Philip Ayres by Clarendon Press Oxford and is the author of two major judicial biographies Cambridge University Press. He is a ( and Fortunate Voyager: Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society The Worlds of ), a Prime (London) and the Australian Academy Ministerial biography (), the of the Humanities, and a recipient of the biography of Cardinal Moran (Prince of the for services to literature. Church), and the only whole-of-life scholarly He taught at the University of Adelaide, biography of Mawson, as well as books on Monash University, Vassar College and eighteenth-century British culture published Boston University.

Abstract

On leave from the High Court of Australia, Ambassador for the Environment before Chief Justice Sir served as undertaking international mediatory roles Australia’s Minister to Japan from 1940 to in and and 1941. Sir Owen Dixon took similar leave to leading UN missions to Cambodia and be Australia’s Minister to the United States Burma. How ably did these perform from 1942 to 1944. Sir Ninian Stephen, as ambassadors, and does the judicial role following his years on the Court and then augur well for the ambassadorial role? as Governor-General, served as Australian

Refreshments to follow, All welcome

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