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Judicial Biography, Creativity and Diversity in Australia

In May 1998, on the day that Murray Gleeson was sworn in as Chief Justice of Australia, his colleague Justice Michael Kirby gave a speech in Armidale, NSW, in honour of a former High Court judge, Sir Frank Kitto, who had written of the judicial life: ‘we must look straight in the face the fact that in spite of all our care and all our toil our judgments are not likely to make our names in history’. Kirby (1998, 2) said then that ‘judicial biographies in Australia are as rare as hen’s teeth’. He clearly viewed this as a gap that should be filled. His colleague, Justice Mary Gaudron, who had then served on the High Court for 11 years, had a different view. Earlier the same month she had told Pamela Burton, a Canberra barrister who wanted to write her biography, that she had ‘a horror of biographies’, because she thought some things in the past are ‘best left there’ (Burton 2010, p. 395). Gaudron refused to cooperate with Burton, who has written an admirable biography of her that is graced by a foreword from Kirby. In a wistful comment toward the end of a careful and thorough book, Burton notes that Gaudron did give an interview to A.J. Brown, who was writing a biography of Kirby.