The Commonwealth solicitor-general weighed into the Voice debate at the Victorian Bar dinner.
Solicitor-General Stephen Donaghue, KC, got mixed reviews for his speech at the 2023 Victorian Bar dinner after he waded into the controversy over the Indigenous Voice to parliament referendum.
However, that was only half the room. The other half – mostly those members over 50 – didn’t join the revelry. It was polite – and short– applause at best. But our spies reported that Dreyfus was looking very pleased. Ditto High Court judge Michelle Gordon and her husband, former High Court judge Ken Hayne. There was no reaction one way or another from the other High Court judges who attended, Stephen Gageler and Simon Steward. Perhaps Steward was wondering why his speech to the dinner last year – on the Bar’s pro bono work – didn’t also stir the troops to stand and hail his contribution.
“I said that none of those things was true, and at least one was defamatory [presumably the bit about his master’s being from Cambridge, not Oxford].“I said that people should make up their own minds about the legal objections raised, but that the government had decided to release my opinion, which was that the legal objections did not withstand analysis.
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