Graham Perrett (Moreton, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The ever-evolving nature of Australia’s legal system has seen incredible change in our courts and the legal profession over the last 107 years of Federation. At Federation there were fewer than 3,000 lawyers spread throughout Australia—and that is not why we call them the ‘good old days’—and there were only four universities in Australia that taught law, with fewer than 100 law students throughout Australia. But today, in 2008, how things have changed. Now there are more than 56,000 lawyers—

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