The Right Hon. orable Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, a member of the High Court of Australia since 1906, was today appointed chief justice of the High Court. Sir Isaac, who was born in Melbourne in 1855, has had a brilliant legal and political career dating from 1892.
From 1892 to 1901 he was a member of the Legislative Assembly, and shortly after he was elected to the Federal House of Representaties. During these years he was also for a time acting premier of Victoria attorney-general of Victoria and a member of the convention which framed the Australian constitution.
He remained in the House of Representatives until 1906, when he was appointed a justice of the High Court. In 1921 he became a privy councillor and three years later was appointed to the judicial committee of the Privy Council, the highest legal tribunal in the British Empire. Sir Isaac was knighted two years ago. In the second Deakin government, 1905-1906, he was attorney-general of the Commonwealth of Australia.
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