I suspect that Planet Janet really didn’t need to write this column – if you had asked anyone familiar with her previous work to imagine what she would write about the new Chief Justice, they would have been able to conjure up a word-accurate copy of what the Oz has printed. Richard Ackland likes him, George Williams says he’s difficult to predict, the spectres of Anthony Mason and an activist Court, etc. She depicts Robert French as a young Anakin Skywalker, trying to tread the path of black-letter law as he grows in his Jedi powers, but inevitably vulnerable to the seductions of the Dark Side – judicial activism.
Janet’s projections should make an excellent movie one day.
She has a pretty limited subject matter doesnt she
judicial activists (ie whenever a judge makes a decision that doesnt fit with Janet’s warped world view they are an activist)
feminism and how it’s irrelevant (once again lost on her that her position’s in academia,the abc board and journalism would have been unachievable for her if it wasnt for feminists)
john howard and how he single handedly remade Australia after the dark ages of Paul Keating
assorted rants about immigrants, gays, labor, the democrats (US) and so forth
rinse and repeat
Whatever she lacks in diversity of talking points, she makes up for through persistence in the face of being wrong.