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PRIME MINISTER
FOR MEDIA B DECEMBER 1986
The Government will tomorrow be recommending to the
Governor-General in Council the appointment of the new Chief
Justice of the High Court to succeed Sir Harry Gibbs and two
other appointments as Justices of the High Court.
The new Chief Justice is to be Sir Anthony Mason, at present
a Justice of the High Court. The other appointees are Mr
Justice John Toohey of the Federal Court of Australia,
Perth, and Ms Mary Gaudron QC, Solicitor-General for New
South Wales, who will be the first woman appointed to the