Australian Story Judgement Day (1996– ) Online

Australian Story Judgement Day (1996– ) Online

Australian Story this week delivers a rare insight into the private passion of a Supreme Court judge. Behind the robes, wig and formalities of life as a judge of the New South Wales Supreme Court, Justice George Palmer has been working for 40 years on his 'other life' as a composer. But the music he wrote had never been performed or recorded - until now. Impending deafness prompted Justice Palmer to employ a group of musicians to record the music, and to his own amazement, the project snowballed into a live to air concert at the ABC's Eugene Goosens Hall in Sydney. "I hope that people will see a bloke who's doing difficult job," says George Palmer. "He may have tried a case of mine, the bastard, and got it all wrong." "But at least seeing this side of the face of justice, perhaps they can realise that the bloke is human, he's got passions, interests, failings and foibles just like every one of us, and the poor bastard is trying to do his best."