Meggie Morris

So given what a huge part music played in your life as a young man, as a teenager, George, did you dream of making a career in music as soon as you finished school?

That already survived your campaigns for the piano and the record player by now, George.

They were on to you.

They knew the direct attack was not going to be effective.

And what did you find when you sat in on those classes?

I'm hearing the gamelan.

So it was easier to follow your father's sage advice at that point.

And focusing then on the law, that decision, George, was it as exciting to you as a subject as music had been?

What was your area of expertise?

Your work continued in the Lord George and you were made a Queen's Counsel and then a judge in the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

That must have been a proud day for your family.

Well, you put your wig on backwards or something or what did they think you'd do?

You were put in charge of something called the protective list in the Supreme Court.

What's that?

George, you were describing your time in charge of the protective list, one of your duties as a Supreme Court judge in New South Wales, where you had ultimate responsibility for all adoptions in New South Wales.

What is it like to be in that position, to have a kind of ultimate decision-making power?

What's that like morally for you, emotionally?

Would cases stay with you, George?

In these years, George, of building your career in the law, what place did music have in your life?

Did you have some secret, secret, deep, dark, buried ambition that it would be one day?