Of course the arrogant Michael Kirby wouldn’t like being referred to as ‘the great dissenter’. No one should be allowed to criticise the ‘great and infallible’ Michael Kirby.

“To his opponents he was a meddler, a judge-made-law man, a constitutionalist guerrilla.”

And during his time on the bench, Kirby proved that the criticism were correct. Kirby was the epitome of an unelected official meddling with the roles of elected politicians, and clearly showing the dangers of a ‘rights’ bill for Australia.

Good riddance to Michael Kirby: may he stay out of public office for ever.

Leigh,

That little outburst exceeds your usual ill-mannered, unenlightened and ill-informed diatribes.

Kirby will long be remembered as a great Australian jurist and a decent person.

There's no possibility you will ever be called 'decent'.

Leigh, in the morning, do you put bleach instead of milk on your weeties!

You will be sorely missed Justice Michael Kirby, and your comments of the latest High Court Judgment denying the Indigenous challenge to the 'intervention' is absolutely appropriate.

A petition to the United Nations will expose the racism in Australian law

May your retirement truly be not the end of your public life but a new beginning.

You will be remembered long after the bigots and homophobes in our midst for your forethought and humanity.

Farewell to an Honourable Jurist indeed!

He shall be sorely missed. His work was his recreation,
as I heard quoted on the news.

He was for equal rights for all people in this country - which
in itself makes him a very rare man and jurist.

I also hope that we haven't seen the last of him.
Men of his calibre are a rarity in top positions.
Most jurists are followers not leaders. He was a leader
in his field of expertise.

As to the knockers? This wouldn't be Australia, if we didn't
have those- now would it? Cut down the tall poppies - by all
means. Then only the weeds remain!

Justice Michael Kirby was a man of reason.

And as we all know, the true triumph of reason is that
it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Michael Kirby has always been, in my opinion, one of Australia's foremost intellectuals. As a student at Sydney University he was a brilliant debater in the Union. As counsel for the defence in court he was hard to beat. His was one of the best minds on the Law Reform Commission. Having read some of his 'dissenting' judgements on the High Court, he convinced me that it was the other judges who were wrong and, being very much his own man, he would not be stampeded into making a judgement just to go along with the majority. He was exactly the sort of jurist that this country needs in its courts.

I wish him all the best in his new career if, as has been rumoured, he follows his friend Geoffrey Robertson onto the world stage.