A university, electorate and suburb bear his name. But Griffith’s leadership came amid large-scale bloodshed
And the very reason that Griffith’s name graces a university and an intellectual journal – his unquestioned legal brilliance – makes him especially culpable of the unpunished killings in the state he led.A society established in the 1990s to “defend the constitution” bears Griffith’s name.
“Although there is a tendency to mythologise figures like Sir Samuel for their immense contributions to our nation’s history, we should remember that they too were only human,” Boffa says.
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