'One of the greatest': Influential former judge dies weeks shy of 101st birthday
By Alexander Lewis••ABC News (AU)
One of Australia's greatest judges, Sir Anthony Mason, is being remembered as an "activist judge", an unlikely figure in the Gough Whitlam dismissal and for "radical" judgements that changed the nation.
Sir Anthony Mason is being remembered as one of Australia's greatest and most progressive judges, whose once "radical" High Court rulings continue to shape today's law. A judge for more than half a …