'She'll pay lip service to the constitution and then she'll interpret it according to her whim, like all good judicial activists.'

This is the same spin as Mr Rudd used talking about being a fiscal conservative leading up to the election. At least Peter Garret was honest enough to say they will do what they like once elected.

Obama appoints his mates no matter how corrupt. I think he thinks he is in Africa. Mr Rudd appoints his mates and makes up porkies about the most suitable applicants for jobs not being qualified as per his appointment to Germany.

At least the electors get a chance to throw out dishonest pollies. With judges we will be stuck with them.

A Judge is an abomination. From the comments on this thread so far, It is quire clear that the thorough brainwashing inflicted on the collective Australian psyche, over the past sixty years, has not yet caused a reaction. Newton’s law, for every action there is a reaction should have kicked in by now, and it may be that with the collective psyche, now available through the internet and places like OLO, will understand the fraud. The word judges, means a jury.

The New Testament teaches that the Holy Spirit is to be the judge. The separation of Church and State occurs when the representative of Almighty God, the Judge appointed by the State, and paid by the State, convenes a court, and installs judges, twelve in number, the same as the disciples were, and they do the judging by collective reasoning. No one person can be a Christian and a Judge. The principles of jury trial are found in Matthew 18:20, for where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Jesus Christ went to his fate, willingly having been offered Roman citizenship, and jury trial, by Pilate. He went to teach us all the principles of Good Government. They are incorporated into the four Gospels, not the Pauline texts that follow. The Coronation Oath 1688 ( Imp) incorporates the Gospels into Constitutional Law.

The Roman Catholic Church has been the State in many parts of the world with disastrous results. Hitler and Stalin modeled their governments on that Church. The English adopted the Gospels, and Rome has been at war with the British ever since. The separation of Church and State was abolished in SA, in 1927, New South Wales in 1970, the Commonwealth in 1976 and 1979, Victoria in 1986, Queensland in 1991, and the federation is broken and fractured. Court with a capital C is the State. How long must we wait for the members of Parliament in Canberra to wake up to the fact that Judge is a word absent from S 79 Ch III Constitution

Barnaby Joyce was reportedly on Alan Jones a couple of days ago, calling for the abolition of the States in Australia. Federation both abolished the States and created them at the same time, but the law has been hijacked by them, and Canberra has been slack. The intolerable burden of the States only continues, because one man, the Director of Public Prosecutions of the Commonwealth, has taken over and discontinued all private prosecutions, of Judges in Australia since 1983. The State itself will not prosecute Judges, even though they are all criminals. That goes for all nine States including the Commonwealth.

Between 1993 and 1996, Paul Keating’s government passed all the legislation necessary to effectively abolish the States. Section 268:10 Commonwealth Criminal Code, makes every Judge and Magistrate liable to 25 years imprisonment. Since 1275, and the Stature of Westminster the First, every accused person should have the right to freely elect to pay a fine, and avoid a trial, or face a trial and possible imprisonment. This was pure Celtic law, and very just.

The Lex Talionis of the Roman Catholics now adopted, illegally and in direct contradiction of the principles of the Constitution, gives a Judge the power to imprison without choice. That is why Sotomayer, thinks a Court of Appeal is so powerful. She is so wrong. We had until 1970, the Habeas Corpus. This was freely available, and if a person was aggrieved about his trial, he could apply to as many Justices as it took to get a new one. Not only that anyone could do it for him, not just a lawyer.

Paul Keating’s government modified the Trade Practices Act 1974 in 1995, to make S 45 apply to every State authority, carrying on any business. The practice of excluding 12 ordinary people from both passing judgment and sentencing, in every case, became illegal. Keating is an Irish name. If KR micro manages the Attorney General’s Department, like he manages Foreign Affairs, and gives us back our Constitution, stolen by the Liberals, the States have a very limited future. Law enforcement is a business

Tourets, Pete?.

pelican: "I have some sympathy for Telstra given they have financially invested in gathering all that information"

Oddly, from Telstra's point of view I don't think it was about that at all.

Firstly, Telstra has to maintain a customer databases on their computer systems, so they can bill you. In fact they track every call you make, every payment, every pair of wires in the ground - the name and address information in the white pages is just the tip of the iceberg. So when you think about it, Telstra didn't spend any effort collecting the information - they already had it. The effort they did expend was in formatting that information into a book. But really that wasn't much - they employed a few computer programmers to maintain a system that just spat out the white pages in electronic form, which they sent off to the printers. For a corporation of Telstra's size this is almost an insignificant effort.

Secondly, Telstra doesn't sell the white pages. They are free. Advertising appears to be insignificant. So it is not like Desktop Marketing's efforts actually lost Telstra any income. Indeed, to the extent that Desktop Marketing reduced the number of white pages distributed, it probably saved them money.

Thirdly, having easy to use directories out there probably benefited Telstra in other ways. If people were using 3rd party phone books, then they were probably making more phone calls. Unlike the white pages which are just a cost, phone calls actually bring in money.

So in essence Desktop Marketing was getting people to pay money for a service Telstra was otherwise forced to provide for free. So unlike say the AFL team schedules for instance (where the AFL insists on charging people if they use them), for Telstra it was never about money. They said it was at the time, but that was just a convenient furphy to put before the court. I get real suspicious when people feel the need to hide their motivations.

The doctrine of the separation of powers attempts to prevent absolute power from absolutely corrupting. Should unelected, unaccountable, affirmative action judges be given carte blanche to legislate from the bench. Great Question KMB.

The misinformed think that the separation of powers, is effected by paying a Judge, $7000 a week to sit on the High Court. Wrong. It is effected by applying the principles of the New Testament legislated as law, by the Coronation Oath 1688 ( Imp), and printed in John 5 Verses 22 and 23. Jesus Christ said in John 5:19, The Son can do nothing for himself but what he seeeth the Father do. The Father ordained jury trial. Jesus Christ taught democracy in his Fathers name.

Even though unelected, every person is equal before the law. That includes Judges. Perhaps it is the Hindhu influence, but I think we would be better making Brahman Cattle sacred cows, and above the law, than Judges. In 1914, it was an offence for any Judge to sit without a jury. It was called perverting the course of justice. Penalty $33,000. In 1995, the Parliament of the Commonwealth created an offence of slavery; penalty twenty five years imprisonment. The words defining slavery are: exercising all or any of the powers attaching to the right of ownership. It includes exercise a power arising from a debt incurred or contract made by a person. Penalty $165,000.

The only reason the States are surviving is because they have made their citizens slaves, and exercising ownership over them. Judges should be very afraid. If the Commonwealth is fair dinkum, a Judge will be losing super, and find out what it is like to be homeless. The New South Wales Taj Mahal, erected at Maitland, is full of slavemasters, and the slaves are revolting. In every State millions in unpaid fines are a vote against slavery. The severe deprivation of physical liberty, inflicted by the States is a refusal to issue a drivers licence, unless a fine is paid. The corporate penalty for each offence, is $825,000. The Commonwealth can send the States broke anytime