Matters for Judgment: An autobiography

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
The Consent of the Governed....Pages 1-7
Appointment as Governor-General....Pages 8-24
Childhood and Youth — School, University and Early Post-graduate Life....Pages 25-51
Evatt and the Reserve Powers....Pages 52-68
The Game-Lang Crisis....Pages 69-82
Evatt and Outside Advice....Pages 83-88
War Years and Choices....Pages 89-111
Transition — Return to the Bar....Pages 112-125
Post-war Supply Crises; Double Dissolution 1951; Labor Endorsement for Lowe....Pages 126-141
The Great Labor Split of 1954–5; the 1955 Dissolution....Pages 142-157
Return to New Guinea Interests....Pages 158-169
Crowded Years....Pages 170-191
Judicial Life....Pages 192-208
Forsey — the Power of Dismissal and Forced Dissolution; the Rubber Stamp Theory....Pages 209-222
The Loan Affair and Justiciable Issues....Pages 223-240
July to October 1975....Pages 241-258
The Deferral of Supply....Pages 259-290
The Week Before....Pages 291-311
Supply — Power to Deny, Responsibility to Obtain....Pages 312-328
The Queen and November the Eleventh....Pages 329-332
Final Thoughts....Pages 333-353
November the Eleventh....Pages 354-375
The Aftermath....Pages 376-402
The 1977 Dissolution of the House of Representatives....Pages 403-415
Winter in Auvergne; the Unesco Appointment....Pages 416-430
Reflections....Pages 431-439
Epilogue....Pages 440-444
Back Matter....Pages 445-468