In September 2025 I had the honour of giving the keynote address at the annual Law Night dinner hosted by the Catenian Association and the St Thomas More Society at the Occidental Hotel, Sydney. The subject of my address was “Sectarianism and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Australia” in which I examined a series of high-profile legal proceedings in the early 1900s that had the potential to intensify chronic ethno-religious animosity and splinter a community already divided between Catholics and Protestants.… Read the rest