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Friday
Jun242011

Dear Fink

• DateFriday, June 24, 2011

Chris Judd, Nick Maxwell and Matthew Boyd get out their laptops and send Justice Finkelstein tributes on the eve of his retirement from the Federal Court ... Melbourne's AFL culture recognises no boundaries

Finkelstein: a good little man will always beat a big manAfter 14 years in the saddle Justice Ray Finkelstein steps down from the Federal Court on (Thursday) June 30.

He is a dedicated follower of Carlton, as is Barry Lane's friend John (Pigs Arse) Elliott.

Like most Victorians he is obsessed with Australian rules football, to a degree that is incomprehensible to Australians who live north of the Murray.

The Fink has attracted an ecumenical expression of goodwill from the captains of three of Melbourne's leading aerial ping-pong clubs, as the following letters reveal.

It's unlikely you'd find three leading NRL players with such consistently fine penmanship ...

 

 

 

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