Lincoln Crowley sworn in as nation’s first Indigenous supreme court judge

Warramunga man's elevation to bench hailed as important step in a much longer process' in Queensland

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Lincoln Crowley didn't take any classes in legal studies at high school in Charters Towers, Queensland in the 1980s. Nor did he spend much time thinking about the state's supreme court. In fact, he doesn't think he even knew it existed.

But I knew what was fair and what was not," Crowley, the state's newest supreme court judge, said at his swearing-in ceremony in Brisbane.