The Lionel Murphy Foundation
"Lionel
Murphy is one of the few judges of the High Court of Australia who has left his
mark on the history of the country. He has argued with immense learning
and great passion for trial by jury, the rights of the Aborigines, the
liberties of the individual against the State, the Corporations and the
Churches, and the rights of the Commonwealth against the States. Lionel
Murphy is a child of the Enlightenment. He has devoted his public life to
the abolition of ignorance, superstition and tyranny. He belongs to the
great tradition of those who believe human beings had the capacity to abolish
every form of domination, of class over class, parent over child, man over
woman, woman over man, of race over race, and spiritual bully over sceptics and
agnostics. All his life he has had an eye for the humbugs and the
moralisers. Perhaps that is why the conservatives have never felt comfortable
with him. He is one of those human beings who want all human beings to have not
only life, liberty and the opportunity to pursue happiness: he wants all human
beings to have life and have it more abundantly. These judgments are a
testimony to his faith and his courage. The victims and the oppressed will read
them as the words of a man who gave them hope."
Prof. Manning Clark AC
"Lionel Murphy: The Rule of Law",
edited
by Jean and Richard Ely,
published by Akron
press, Oct. 1986.
This is the
official web site of the Lionel Murphy Foundation. It contains
information about the late Mr Justice Lionel Murphy QC BSc LLB, the Lionel
Murphy Foundation and its Postgraduate Scholarships, Memorial Lectures and
related topics.
On 1 January
2012, The Lionel Murphy Foundation was transferred to The Australian National
University.
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