On February 3, 2009, the Rudd Government appointed Virginia Bell to replace Michael Kirby as a Justice on the Australian High Court. Michael Kirby was a product of the Public School system and proud to be so. See Press Release 284 at www.adogs.info/pr284.htm. Virginia Bell is a product of Sydney Church of England Girls Grammar School (SCEGGS).

On September 1, 2008, the Rudd Government appointed Robert French as the Chief Justice of the Australian High Court. Like Justice Toohey who was appointed by the ALP government in 1987, Chief Justice Robert French is a product of St. Louis (Jesuit) school, Western Australia.

The two justices appointed to the High Court by the Rudd Government are products of the private church school networks.

After the appointment of Virginia Bell, only one of the High Court Justices is a product of the public school system throughout Australia. Susan Kiefel was appointed by John Howard on September 3, 2007. She is the only one of the seven High Court justices who attended a public secondary school, namely Sandgate State High School, Queensland. To date, DOGS have not discovered any indication of Susan Kiefel's defence of her educational opportunities in her public school. In this she differs from Justices Murphy and Kirby. Is she a public school graduate in name only?

In the period since 1980, the Liberal National Party has appointed nine persons to the High Court: two from the public school sector; four from the Roman Catholic school sector; and three from the non-Roman Catholic school sector. The Labor Party has appointed seven High Court Justices: one from the public sector; four from the Roman Catholic school sector; and two from the non-Roman Catholic school sector.

In the period since 1980, the federal governments have appointed sixteen persons to the High Court. Three were products of public education; and thirteen were products of the church school system.

The above figures indicate blatant favouritism by both the ALP and the Coalition governments of private school networks and gross discrimination against graduates from the public school sector. If anything, they prove that the Roman Catholic networks are stronger than any other old-boy and old-girl networks in this country. The favouritism is readily apparent when one looks at the sixteen appointments made since 1980. Eight have come up through the Roman Catholic old-boy and old-girl networks; five from the non-Roman Catholic old-boy and old-girl networks; and three are from public schools, most of which do not enjoy old-boy or old-girl networks at all.

In percentage terms, at least ten public school graduates should have been appointed compared with the three who were appointed.

This situation gives the lie to the Australian egalitarian myth. Private schools have eroded our democratic, legal and social systems with their networks and made a nonsense of our classless society. Their sectarian and sectionalist outcomes have created a cancer in our body politic.

For further information on this subject, DOGS refer readers to Press Release 123 at www.adogs.info/pr123.htm and Press Release 261 at www.adogs.info/pr261.htm .

Given the stacking of the High Court with sectarian school products, the only reason for a return to the High Court on Section 116  would be to expose the cancer in the body politic, the products of the old and new religious establishments. 

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