The Honourable Justice Marcus Einfeld AO QC PhD

Justice [ret'd] of the Federal Court of Australia and State Supreme Courts
Justice of Pacific and Caribbean Supreme Courts
AUSTCARE'S Ambassador of Refugees
UNICEF Ambassador for Children
UN Peace Laureate 2003
Australia's National Living Treasure
Foundation President, Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and Australian Paralympic Federation

Hon. Justice Marcus Einfeld AO

Bio:
Justice Einfeld has led a distinguished career in the legal field, both locally and internationally. In 1998, Justice Einfeld was made an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) for services to international affairs and human rights. He was the UN Peace Laureate in 2002. As a QC, Judge of the Supreme Court and Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, he has mediated and decided cases in almost every area of law, including significant social justice cases on immigration, refugees and native title. As President of Australian Legal Resources International (ALRI), Justice Einfeld has also been actively engaged in the establishment of democratic parliamentary, legal and judicial systems in various parts of the developing world. Justice Einfeld was the Foundation President of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and is recognised as one of Australia's foremost activists for human rights at home and abroad. Justice Einfeld has also undertaken many critical international missions on human rights and refugees, particularly in his role as AUSTCARE'S Ambassador for Refugees. As UNICEF Ambassador for Children and Chair of its Taskforce on Children, Justice Einfeld has been a vigorous campaigner for the need to address the many issues that adversely impact on children in Australian and abroad.

Seems like a nice bloke concerned about the rule of law and dispossessed.
I s'pose that's why he needs to be character assassinated by a jackbooted journo called Chris Merritt.

This is the only paragraph worth reading in Merritt's hack job.
"Mr Einfeld was invited yesterday to discuss his recent troubles, he said: "You have got to be joking. Thank you for calling. Goodbye." Well said Marcus.

Perhaps Justice Einfeld's reaction was the result of reading this article by Merritt a week earlier.
This cultural warrior also gladly took part in this contemptible corps kicking campaign (John Marsden's) by News Ltd.
Luckily for Merritt, the dead can't sue.
News Limited should be ashamed of themselves but in the culture wars, anyone is fair game, no matter how much they have served the country.