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Ninian Stephen

Modern Constitutional and Supreme Court Judges of Asia and Oceania

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Sir Ninian Martin Stephen (1923 to 2017) was an English-born Australian jurist who served as a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1972 to 1982 before becoming the 20th Governor-General of Australia from 1982 to 1989. He was the only Governor-General to have approved two double dissolutions of the federal Parliament.

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