The High Court is the most visible, and in one sense the most important, court in Australia. This is not because of the number of cases it decides or (in non-constitutional cases) because of the effect of its orders on litigants. It is because of the consequences of its judgments, as precedents determining the result of other cases in other courts, as authoritative statements of the law, as an expression of legal policy on sensitive political or social questions.

The High Court is the primary custodian of the Constitution, as the arrangements for constitutional cases in its original and appellate jurisdiction indicate. Its function is to develop a coherent body of constitutional doctrine consistent with the text of the Constitution and, as far as possible, appropriate to the needs of the community. In its constitutional role the High Court inevitably has to decide sensitive political questions.

Throughout the twentieth century the High Court has been quite deliberate in its......

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