Chief Justice Industrial Relations Court of Australia
In office 30 March 1994 – 2 October 2006
Judge Supreme Court (Norfolk Island)
In office 6 July 1993 – 2 October 2006
Additional Judge Supreme Court (ACT)
In office 23 April 1983 – 30 September 2006
Personal details
Born
1937 (1937)
Died
(aged 81 )
Nationality
Australian
Occupation
Judge, barrister
Murray Rutledge Wilcox, AO, QC (1937–2018) was an Australian Federal Court Judge, serving from 11 May 1984 until retiring on 2 October 2006.[1] He also served as an additional judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory from 23 April 1983 to 30 September 2006, and Chief Justice of the Industrial Relations Court of Australia between 1994 and his retirement in 2006.[2] He may be best remembered for handing down the controversial Noongar Native Title ruling a fortnight before retiring.[3]
In October 1993 his book An Australian Charter of Rights was launched by Michael Kirby. The Australian reported a concomitant "attack" on Australia's human rights laws as inadequate to prevent "discrimination" and a potential "international embarrassment". Wilcox was quoted as saying that "Parliaments and the common law [are] not doing their jobs". In particular, they did not do enough to extirpate racial and sexual discrimination or to protect homosexuals. Kirby agreed that Parliament was "spineless" in such areas.[4]
Wilcox was a committed environmentalist, and was President of the Australian Conservation Foundation 1979-1984.[5]
In May 2007, Wilcox gave the Blackburn Lecture to the ACT Law Society. In his speech, he claimed that Australia was becoming an "elected dictatorship" as a result of a concentration of power in Canberra and the position of Prime Minister of Australia at the hand of John Howard.[6]
Wilcox was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2010 Australia Day Honours "for service to the law as a Judge and a Law Reform Commissioner, particularly in the areas of environmental, native title and industrial law".[7]
Wilcox died on 8 November 2018.[8]
^Former Judges, Federal Court of Australia
^"Farewell to the Hon Justice Murray Wilcox" (PDF). (2006 Summer) Bar News: Journal of the NSW Bar Association 93.
^"Radio National Breakfast 3 October 2006 - Justice Murray Wilcox", Breakfast, 3 October 2006
^Chapter Six: "Just tidying up": Two Decades of the Federal Court, Dr John Forbes
^"The Australian Panel of Experts on Environmental Law (APEEL)", Panel of Experts, 23 November 2016
^"Radio National Breakfast 17 May 2007 - Justice Murray Wilcox", Breakfast, 17 May 2007
^"WILCOX, Murray Rutledge". Australian Honours Search Facility, Dept of Prime Minister & Cabinet. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
^"The Hon Murray Rutledge Wilcox AO QC (1937-2018)". NSW Bar Association. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
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