As you well know, heroes emerge from the most unlikely places, at the most expected times. For instance, Superman came from (after arriving on Earth) a poor farming family in Iowa and then became a mild-mannered reporter for the Daily Planet.
Friends and readers, we have one walking among us now. He came from a tough working-class background. Both parents left school before they were 16 and both sacrificed a lot to get their kids a great education. One of those kids ended up topping the school, becoming a super cricket and football player and going on to top law. Better still, for a lawyer who became a Federal Court judge, he is a petrol head and drives a Subaru WRX STi.
Of course, Justice Lindsay Foster exhibits all the conventions of the archetype including a colourful costume that expresses his nature. His Honour wears black wool robes with a red trim when he is on the tools.
Last Wednesday Lindsay was thinking about increasing a record $75m civil penalty settlement reached by Volkswagen and the ACCC over the Dieselgate scandal.
Here's what Justice Lindsay Foster, Scooby Rex driver, had to say: "I'm really outraged by that submission. I don't accept it, I think it's outrageous. If the people of this country thought that its champion was prepared to agree to something like that they would be very upset, as I am."