Buckley v The Queen [2005] HCATrans 995:
KIRBY J: The only trouble is that with our very modest salaries we do not get issued with a crystal ball.
MRS CLARE: No.
KIRBY J: A little library, desk, pleasant people appearing before us, but no crystal ball so far.
And, lest one think that classical references have gone out of vogue since the times of Dixon, Gleeson CJ seems to be bringing it back:
MR SMITH: … [The sentencing judge] seemed to have an interest in this topic because … his Honour asked whether there was a link—was it:
unusual for people with the buggery of animals and killing animals to become violent rapists or sodomists?—The academic literature, to be quite honest, is Spartan.
GLEESON CJ: That is “sparse”, I trust, otherwise it is a bit of an offence to the Spartans.
