Government, Politics and Law
Notable Brisbane-born people in this section include:
- Lord Atkin, judge of the English High Court
- Bill Hayden, former Governor-General of Australia
- Emma Miller, pioneer labour activist and suffragist
- Sir William Webb, High Court of Australia Judge and President of the Military Tribunal in the Far East (which tried Japanese war criminals)
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Famous quotes containing the words politics and/or law:
“Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices.... Politics has once again become religious.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)
“You are, or you are not the President of The National University Law School. If you are its President I wish to say to you that I have been passed through the curriculum of study of that school, and am entitled to, and demand my Diploma. If you are not its President then I ask you to take your name from its papers, and not hold out to the world to be what you are not.”
—Belva Lockwood (1830–1917)