A former chief justice of the Family Court of Australia has hit out at yesterday's High Court decision limiting the freedom of speech of public servants.

Alastair Nicholson says, "It was a sad result from a very technical High Court," which in his view had departed from the vision of the High Court that decided Mabo and other landmark cases.

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Gillian Triggs, professor emeritus of law and vice-chancellor's fellow, University of Melbourne and former president, Australian Human Rights Commission