Family Court "... in adulthood some of those children might come to believe that they were indeed stolen from one of their parents by government edict. They might even think they are entitled to compensation. ...Without entering into the merits of contemporary debate along similar lines about the treatment of Aboriginal children in our immediate past, Judge Alistair Nicholson's statements ... struck me as singularly stupid. ... the court over which he presides as the chief judge is the agent for separations of a kind similar to those about which he was prepared to express his abhorence. ...His political pronouncements made so publicly in San Francisco invite political comment on judgments for which he is ultimately responsible. Most members have resisted the temptation in the past but may not feel so constrained in the future. If the chief judge finds his court the subject of political criticism in the future, he might yet have cause to think about his forays into public political debates."
Family Court "... in adulthood some of those children might come to believe that they were indeed stolen from one of their parents by government edict. They might even think they are entitled to compensation. ...Without entering into the merits of contemporary debate along similar lines about the treatment of Aboriginal children in our immediate past, Judge Alistair Nicholson's statements ... struck me as singularly stupid. ... the court over which he presides as the chief judge is the agent for separations of a kind similar to those about which he was prepared to express his abhorence. ...His political pronouncements made so publicly in San Francisco invite political comment on judgments for which he is ultimately responsible. Most members have resisted the temptation in the past but may not feel so constrained in the future. If the chief judge finds his court the subject of political criticism in the future, he might yet have cause to think about his forays into public political debates."
Family Court "... in adulthood some of those children might come to believe that they were indeed stolen from one of their parents by government edict. They might even think they are entitled to compensation. ...Without entering into the merits of contemporary debate along similar lines about the treatment of Aboriginal children in our immediate past, Judge Alistair Nicholson's statements ... struck me as singularly stupid. ... the court over which he presides as the chief judge is the agent for separations of a kind similar to those about which he was prepared to express his abhorence. ...His political pronouncements made so publicly in San Francisco invite political comment on judgments for which he is ultimately responsible. Most members have resisted the temptation in the past but may not feel so constrained in the future. If the chief judge finds his court the subject of political criticism in the future, he might yet have cause to think about his forays into public political debates."