Apparently, Australia's legal community are involved in discussion over whether they should continue to wear the horsehair wigs favored by their British counterparts.

Given that, in New South Wales and Victoria, two of the States involved in this wrangle, temperatures can reach a high of 47 degrees Celsius, I would suggest that this is something of a hot debate.

It seems that New South Wales legal eagles are all for marching ahead, and have all but relegated their ringlets to the refuse. Their Victorian (State and attitude) colleagues, however, have been wary in waiving their wigs. A tardiness that has caused one Australian barrister to comment: "we are such troglodytes that we can't even move a foot ahead."

Damned if you toupee, damned if you don't.

AFP