Sir Richard Clarence Kirby
AC (22 September 190425 October 2001) was a long serving president of the
Australian
Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission
The Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC), known from 1956 to 1973 as the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and from 1973 to 1988 as the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, was a tribunal with powers ...
(1956-1973) (having first been appointed to the Commission in 1947). In 1973, because of ill health, he retired from this post.
He was also a member of the
Australian War Crimes Commission.
His biography was written by
Blanche d'Alpuget
Josephine Blanche d'Alpuget (born 3 January 1944) is an Australian writer and the second wife of Bob Hawke, the longest-serving Labor Prime Minister of Australia.
Background and early career
D'Alpuget is the only child of Josephine Curgenve ...
in 1977.
Honours
Richard Kirby was knighted in the New Year's Honours of 1961. He was appointed a Companion of the
Order of Australia
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(AC) in the Australian Day Honours of 1985.
The bi-annual Sir Richard Kirby Lecture is now held in his honour. It was often assumed he was the father of former
High Court judge
Michael Kirby (who has delivered the Sir Richard Kirby Lecture), but they were not related.
Justice Michael Kirby
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References
Sources
* d'Alpuget, Blanche (1977), Mediator: A biography of Sir Richard Kirby
Justice Michael Kirby
Sir Richard Kirby Lecture "SIR RICHARD KIRBY, MEDIATION AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS TODAY", 20 November 1996
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1904 births
2001 deaths
20th-century Australian judges
Australian Knights Bachelor
Companions of the Order of Australia