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Woman court appointments: Call to counter 'invisible woman syndrome' as nine men appointed to Federal Court in Victoria since 2013


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Senior women in the law are calling for Australia’s new attorney-general Michaelia Cash to appoint a female judge to fill a Federal Court vacancy in Victoria, after the appointment of nine men and no women to the state registry by the Coalition government.
Legal sources say a female Victorian QC is a frontrunner for the position, left vacant by former attorney-general Christian Porter’s promotion of Simon Steward, QC, to the High Court in December.
Marcia Neave said the recent run of male-only appointments to the Federal Court in Victoria was disappointing.
Credit:Simon Schluter
Nine appointments have been made to the Victorian registry since the Coalition government was elected in 2013 – all of them men. ....

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