Watch Live - The Long March Through the Institutions with Mordy Bromberg?
A commonly heard lament by those on the Centre-Right of politics is that for the past fifty-years or so there has been a Marxist or Socialist 'long march through the institutions’. British writer Melanie Phillips provides a short summary of the phenomenon:
In this post we pose the question, is the career of the jurist Mordecai “Mordy” Bromberg an Australian example of the so-called ‘long march through the institutions’?
Many might say “yes” given the number of major legal cases undertaken during his career which worryingly look like a ‘judicial activism’ of the Left.
Bromberg’s recent [2023] promotion to the position of President of the Australian Law Reform Commission will certainly put him in a role that could be used by the Albanese Labor government to “test-run” in public contentious ideas from a much more radical socialist/Marxist agenda prior to the introduction of legislation (Figure 1).
In one of his first major public talks in his new role, The Higinbotham Lecture, Bromberg will speak on a very contentious question:
Human dignity is at the heart of all human rights. But what happens when one person’s right to freedom of religion seems to conflict with another’s right to be free from discrimination? If all human rights are equally important, how do we address situations where these rights appear to be at odds? What framework can guide us in balancing these intersecting rights?
Join us at the 2024 Higinbotham Lecture, where the President of the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC), Justice Mordy Bromberg, will delve into these challenging questions. In light of the ALRC’s recent inquiry into Religious Education Institutions and Anti-Discrimination Laws, Justice Bromberg will explore how the Commission approaches the delicate task of managing conflicting human rights. -
To be presented in Melbourne on Thursday October 24th 2024 (see Figure 2)
Figure 1 - Source Lawyers Weekly Online
Figure 2 - Melbourne Lecture, Thursday, 24 Oct, 5:15pm - 7pm AEDT. Source: RMIT
Is Mordy Bromberg a ‘Frolicking Judge’?
Figure 3 - Janet Albrechtsen’s critique of Justice Moredeci “Mordy” Bromberg - Source The Australian, 11 August 2021 and Full text here.
And an orthodox rebuttal by Glenn Martin, president of the Australian Judicial Officers Association. Source - The Australian, 19 August 2021 and Full text here
Another “frolic” by Justice Bromberg was his subsequently overturned [unanimously by the full bench] ruling that the Australian ‘government has a duty to protect children against climate change.’
Class action proceedings had been ‘brought against the Commonwealth Minister for the Environment (Minister) by eight Australian school children, represented by their litigation guardian Sister Brigid Arthur, seeking to protect children residing in Australia (the Children) from the climate change impacts of an extension to Whitehaven’s Vickery coal mine (the Vickery Project).’
Bromberg J ‘found the Minister has a duty to take reasonable care to avoid personal injury to the Children, when deciding whether to approve the mine expansion under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) (EPBC Act).’
- (See Figure 4 for a short-lived “Hooray” from that Eco-Philistine group, Extinction Rebellion. ps: Is an endorsement from Extinction Rebellion an accolade or a ‘kiss-of-death’? )
Figure 4 - “Hooray!” …not. Source: Extinction Rebellion Facebook Page
A Centre-Right critique of Mordy Bromberg has been presented by ex-Liberal Senator, Amanda Stoker on her SkyNews program below.
An introduction to formation of ‘the long march’ in the United Kingdom has been presented in a short video by Peter Whittle at the New Culture Forum (Figure 5):
Figure 5: Video here. and Free Book Download here
