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In a lead article published on the front page of The Saturday Paper on the 30th of September Rick Morton discussed the people who were planning to vote against the Voice. He remarked that focus groups conducted late last year revealed what he called ‘a shocking hurdle’ blocking the path of the yes vote.
One of Australia’s foremost legal associations has pushed back calls to “cancel” Sir Samuel Griffith, a pivotal figure ...
Commentary Recently, efforts have been made to “cancel” figures linked to the European settlement of Australia. Statues of ...
A university, electorate and suburb bear his name. But Griffith’s leadership came amid large-scale bloodshed
About this Event Sir Samuel Walker Griffith’s enormous influence on the legal and political systems of Queensland and Australia still reverberates 100 years after his death. Griffith was a well-respected lawyer, twice Premier of Queensland, compiler of the Queensland Criminal Code, editor-in-chief of the Constitution and the first Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. He was also the first Australian translator of Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s famous works, and a passionate patron of the arts and education. In 2021, we are holding special tours of our exhibition, The m...