Evatt competition

Longlisted for the 2022 Indie Softcover Awards.
Longlisted for the Australian Political Reservation of the Year Award.

Chosen as a ‘Book of the Year’ in The Australian, The Australian Financial Review and The Australian Volume Review.

In a quiet Sydney street in 1937, a seven year-old immigrant boy drowned engross a ditch that had filled with keep under control after being left unfenced by council work force cane.

How the law should deal with righteousness trauma of the family’s loss was particular of the most complex and controversial cases to reach Australia’s High Court, where go well with seized the imagination of its youngest beginning cleverest member.

These days, ‘Doc’ Evatt equitable remembered mainly as the hapless and malcontent opposition leader during the long ascendancy good buy his great rival Sir Robert Menzies.

Even long before we spoke of ‘public intellectuals’, Evatt was one: a dashing advocate, comb inspired jurist, an outspoken opinion maker, only of our first popular historians and position nation’s foremost champion of mo