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Justice Richard Elgin McGarvie,
AC,
KStJ,
QC (
21 May 1926 -
24 May 2003) was a judge in the
Supreme Court of Victoria and
Governor of Victoria from
1992 to
1997. He was born and brought up on his parents’ dairy farm at
Pomborneit East in
Victoria,
Australia.
Early life
After finishing first place at
Camperdown High School. He entered the
Australian Navy in
1944, training at
HMAS Cerberus and serving on the
destroyer,
HMAS Arunta. The
war ended before he saw active service. He served in the Occupation Forces in
Japan and was discharged as an Able Seaman in
1946.
He joined the
Australian Labor Party in
1949 and took a leading role in the dismissal of its Victorian socialist-left dominated Central Executive by bringing about federal intervention.
Legal life
He studied law at
Melbourne University and graduated in
1950 winning the Supreme Court Prize for the top honours student of the year. Joining the Victorian
Bar in
1952, he became
Queen's Counsel, chair of the Victorian
Bar Council 1973-
1975, Treasurer of Law Council of Australia
1974-
1976 and
Chancellor of
La Trobe University 1981-
1992.
He was appointed to the
Supreme Court of Victoria on
1 June 1976, resigning all political affiliations, and served as a judge until
22 April 1992. He was appointed
Governor of Victoria from
1992 to
1997.
Constitutional influence
Author of the
McGarvie Model, he was an appointed delegate to
Constitutional Convention on an
Australian Republic in February
1998 and initiated the
2001 Corowa conference to find common ground among republicans after the
referendum defeat in
1999. He took the unusual position of making contributions to republicanism, without directly supporting the broader republican movement. He promoted his own model and at the
1998 convention successfully demonstrated the provision for 2/3rd parliamentary dismissal of a President was unworkable.
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