There's no "justice" in Australia, just the Law. Anybody who gets the two confused is in for a nasty shock if they come up against the latter and they're not in the predetermined classes of "acceptable victims", one of which is based on gender, as Rusty pointed out.

The fact is that the Law in the form of statutes creates, willy-nilly, winners and losers. The Common Law is the closest approach there has been to achieving a system of laws in which the values of the community with respect to justice and fairness have primacy. Governments don't much like the Common Law - there's too much chance that the community's values might not match the Government's preferred outcomes, so they create Stautes to override the Common Law principles that have evolved over centuries.

As for the protection of senior figures from prosecution, that occurs outside the Law and is the province of corrupt officials. Sadly, the rise of Social Constructionalism as a sociological concept driving politics has meant that there is an ever-greater disjoint between what the community might regard as acceptable and what politicians do. After all, if it's all just "constructed" anyway, there's no reason that my "construction" is any worse than yours.

I don't think the Masons have much to do with it though. I was invited to join a few years ago, as the school I attended has one of the most active Lodges in Qld associated with it. They rarely manage to get more than a handful of new recruits out of any given year group though. I wasn't one of them.

Given the number of empty Masonic Lodges around the country I'd reckon the group is well past its use-by date.

i dont agree that the thread is dead
and agree with rusty

but must disagree with anti [in this case]
the lodges 'look' empty..but thats not to say they wernt used
or still are not being used[but only that it did what it had to do]

and now they dont need a whole lodge
now they meet..'in private'

its not that justrice is blind
but that its a selective blindness
[take that key 'member'..who calls prostitutes..on his union credit card..you dont get to do that..unless you know the fix is in]

and it is
to get [party nomination..you need the numbers
and guess what ..to 'get' the numbers you need mates
you need people to put their trust in you..just as you need to trust others

and what better than an apex..or a rotery..or masonic order

its funny..how the masons have a creed
[in gold we trust]..so if you look at a dollar bill
that says in god we trust...guess whos god is gold

the masons rule the material realm
and while the masonic order was the means
it has since gone underground..but the same fools still rule the roost

in here..[satans realm]
and the lower levels of the next realm as well
and perhaps the few chosen rule the higher levels as well..
cause mason dont mean vile..it just means one who seeks an order
cause many are mindless..and prefer organised disorder..to no order

Both comments have points of interest.
Now surfing my water, daily papers I go back to the best days of my life fishing on the NSW north coast.
Their local paper is a favorite and they, Masons want to sell their lodge council wants to keep it, empty.
Anti you know I do too, dads get shafted by our family law courts every time.
I am a supporter of such groups, dads that is, I have seen a mum, not rare, with the sex life of three women of ill repute, get her kids .
And stop dad seeing them, ever.
He won case after case against her, won custody of the kids,she defied the court.
Under threat of prison she took those kids 4 and 6 and bolted.
She was never found by police, I found her, 18 years and ten blokes after.
Had it been the dad?
Headlines would scream for months.
Those young men, know mum is a bit too free with her favors.
But thought and still do, their dad is dead.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/mps-ask-if-editors-payments-broke-law-20110824-1ja9m.html
As is in the western world so it is all over the world.
The answer is yes.
Very clearly unquestionably yes.
This link deals in great amounts of money.
Another here talks of a woman sent to prison for 5 months .
OH yes it was fixed but what if not blindness saw one working at the highest level and one so dreadfully treated.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/time-and-again-drug-money-corrupts-even-our-finest-20110824-1ja55.html
The links are to actual events, things that have taken place.
We every one of us, need to see we can no longer gloat about the corruption in other country's.
We should be frear stricken by the very real damage our whole way of life is faced with because of greed.
I was going to write more, about our apathy in this matter.
But just could not be bothered.

http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2011/08/27/275575_news.html
This story truly stunned me.
I know nothing about it.
And I make no claims as to guilt or lack of it.
But in a weird deja vue? way I lived in it.
Almost word for word,except the death.
And in NSW Country not Victoria, we talk of it still.
The drinking the favored panel beater who is as described the card games in his shed, free booze.
20 years have past and other towns far away lived it too?