Jim Macken
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James Joseph Macken AM (1927–2019) was an Australian lawyer, judge and human rights activist.
Subsequent career
MacKen was admitted as a barrister in July 1963, and worked in cases of employment law.[1] on 2 June 1975 he was appointed a judge of the Industrial Commission of NSW and retired on 21 August 1989.[2]
After retiring as a judge, Macken continued to work as an academic and author, including lecturing in industrial relations at Sydney Law School.[1][3]
In September 2016, Macken offered to trade places with a refugee at one of the immigration detention camps operated in Nauru or Manus under Australia's Pacific Solution policy.[4][5][6]
Death
Jim Macken died in his sleep on 19 September 2019.[7] He is survived by his eleven children, two brothers and twenty-three grand children.
