Speeches/Articles | High Court of Australia

‘Remarks on the Launch of Gerard Brennan’s Articles and Speeches: Maintaining the Law’s Skeleton of Principle’ (Speech, Banco Court, Supreme Court of New South Wales, 21 August 2025)
Gageler(2025)BrennanBookLaunch.pdf (139.77 KB)
‘George Winterton Memorial Lecture 2025: The Evolution of the Australian Electoral System as a Constitutional Process’ (2025) 47 Sydney Law Review (advance)
Gageler(2025)47SydLRADVANCE.pdf (443.33 KB)

‘The State of the Australian Judicature in 2024’ (2024) 98(12) Australian Law Journal 885

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“John Doyle Oration” 6 April 2024

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'In Conversation with Stephen Gageler, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia' (2024) Judicature International
Book Foreword, Dennis C Pearce, “Statutory Interpretation in Australia“ Tenth edition (50th anniversary edition) (Lexis Nexis, Australia 2024).

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‘The State of the Australian Judicature in 2024’ (Address, Australian Judicial Officers Association Colloquium, Canberra, 12 October 2024) [fully referenced version]

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‘The New Constitutional Scholarship in Australia’ (2024) 48(1) Melbourne University Law Review 202

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“Remembering Sir Cyril Walsh KBE” (2024) 98 Australian Law Journal 619.

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Book Launch, “Dynamic and Principled: The Influence of Sir Anthony Mason”, Ben Chen and Jeffrey Gordon (eds) (2023) 52 Australian Bar Review 450.

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“Administrative Law in the Common law tradition” (2023) 53 Australian Bar Review 1.

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”Judicial Legitimacy”, (2023) 97 (1) Australian Law Journal 28

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“Integrating the Australian judicial system” (2023) 15(1) The Judicial Review 21

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Book Foreword, Benjamin B Saunders, “Responsible Government and the Australian Constitution: A Government for a Sovereign People”(Hart Studies in Comparative Public Law, 2023)

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“The Legacy of Sir Gerard Brennan to Australian Public Law” (2023) 33 Public Law Review 303.

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BookReview, " Public Finance and Parliamentary Constitutionalism" (2022) 46(1)Melbourne University Law Review 320.

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Book Review, " Australian Contract Law in the 21st Century" (2022) (1) Cambridge Law Journal 81.

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“Just versus Quick: Constructivist and Ecological Rationality in a Common Law System” (2022) 45(2) Melbourne University Law Review 830.

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“The Coming of Age of Australian Law” in McDonald, Chen & Gordon (eds) Dynamic and Principled: The Influence of Sir Anthony Mason(The Federation Press, 2022).

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“Law in a time of COVID”, Victorian Bar News Issue 171 – Winter 2022

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"Commentary on Chapter 5" in John Griffiths and James Stellios (eds), Current Issues in Australian Constitutional Law (The Federation Press, 2020).

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Review Essay, “Judging the New by the Old in the Judicial Review of Executive Action” (2020) Sydney Law Review 42 (4).

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"Engineers: The Drama of its Day in the Climate of its Era" (2020) 31 Public Law Review 4.

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“A Tale of Two Ships: The MV Tampa and the SS Afghan” (2019) 40 (3) Adelaide Law Review 615.

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“Alternative Facts in the Courts” (2019) 93 Australian Law Journal 585

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“Small Steps and Giant Leaps: Patterns in Australian Constitutional Adjudication” (2019) 19 Macquarie Law Journal 15.

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“Three is Plenty” (2019) in G Weeks and M Groves (eds), Administrative Redress In and Out of the Courts: Essays in Honour of Robin Creyke and John McMillan (Federation Press, 2019)

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Sir Robert Garran: Medio Tutissimus Ibis" (2018) 46 Federal Law Review 1

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“Truth and justice, and sheep” (2018) 46 Australian Bar Review 205

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"Expansion of the Fiduciary Paradigm into Commercial Relationships: The Australian Experience" in Peter Devonshire and Rohan Havelock (eds), The Impact of Equity and Restitution in Commerce (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2018)

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"Comparative Constitutional Law" in The Oxford Handbook of the Australian Constitution by Cheryl Saunders and Adrienne Stone (eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, 2018

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"The Section 92 Revolution" in James Stellios (ed), Encounters with Constitutional Interpretation and Legal Education: Essays in Honour of Michael Coper (The Federation Press, 2018) 26

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Chapter IV: The Inter-State Commission and the Regulation of Trade and Commerce under the Australian Constitution (2017) 28 Public Law Review 205

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"Evidence and truth" (2017) 13 (3) The Judicial Review 249

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"When the High Court Went on Strike" (2017) 40 Melbourne University Law Review 1098

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Book Review, "Controlling Administrative Power: An Historical Comparison" (2017) The Cambridge Law Journal 76 (2)

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Book Review, "Damages and Human Rights" (2016) 27 Public Law Review 327.

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The intersection of the common law, statute law and notions of fairness [2016] IFL 15.

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'What it is to be a government lawyer' This article is taken from the speech given on the occasion of the launch in April 2016 of 'Without fear or favour: The life of Dennis John Rose AM QC' by Carmel Meiklejohn, Reproduced courtesy of Australian Government Solicitor magazine © Commonwealth of Australia 2016

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"The Equitable Duty of Loyalty in Public Office" in Bonyhady (ed,) Finn's Law: An Australian Justice , (Federation Press, 2016).

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Whitmore and the Americans: Some American Influences on the Development of Australian Administrative Law" (2015) 38 UNSW Law Journal 1316

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'Legislative Intention'(2015) 41 Monash University Law Review 1.

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"The Master of Words: Who Chooses Statutory Meaning" in Connolly and Steward (eds), Public Law in the Age of Statutes, Essays in Honour of Dennis Pearce (Federation Press, 2015)

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"James Bryce and the Australian Constitution" (2015) 43 Federal Law Review 177

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"Pearls of Wisdom" (2015) 13 Law Society of NSW Journal 21

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"Deference" (2015) 22 Australian Journal of Administrative Law 151

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"The Constitutional Dimension" in M Groves (ed), "Modern Administrative Law in Australia: Concepts and Contexts" (2014)

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"Collective Irrationality and the Doctrine of Precedent" (2014) 38 Melbourne University Law Review 525 (with Dr Brendan Lim)

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"Why Write Judgments?" (2014) 36 Sydney Law Review 189

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"What is a Question of Law?" (2014) 43 Australian Tax Review 68

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"What is Information Technology Doing to the Common Law?" (2014) 39 Australian Bar Review 146

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Speeches/Articles by Chief Justice The Hon Chief Justice Stephen Gageler AC