sentences:  Moffitt retired from the Supreme Court in June 1984, on reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70.The following year, he published a book on organised crime, "A Quarter to Midnight", which claimed that organised crime in Australia was far more extensive than governments were prepared to admit, that the National Crime Authority was a "lame duck" and that the close ties between the trade union movement and ALP governments was hindering the investigation of criminal activity in unions.In 1998 he wrote a book on the drug problem, "Drug Precipice", and followed by another book on the same subject, "Drug Alert", a simpler exposition of the problem.