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Now we all go to go by the same laws

The winning entry in the 2004 High Court Centenary Art Prize - Today now ... we all got to go by same laws - hangs in the Court's main gallery.

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Chief Justice Murray Gleeson, winning artist Rosella Namok and Australian Bar Association President Tony Glynn SC with Ms Namok's winning entry.
It is a painting by 24-year-old Rosella Namok, from Lockhart River in far north Queensland, and was chosen from among 10 works of artists invited to compete. The Art Prize was run in conjunction with the Australian Bar Association which provided the $35,000 prize.

Rosella's entry, Today now ... we all got to go by same laws, is a giant nine-panel work depicting traditional law overlaid by contemporary law.

Ms Namok's entry was the unanimous choice of Chief Justice Gleeson, Bar Association President Tony Glynn SC
and National Gallery of Australia Director Dr Brian Kennedy.

The Chief Justice described Ms Namok's work as "bold, beautiful, confident and contemporary", words he said would also describe the current High Court.