Andrew Bolt on Gillian Triggs: Human Rights Commissioner must go
GILLIAN Triggs’ failure to defend one of our most critical rights, free speech, means there is no alternative but for her to resign, writes Andrew Bolt.
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WHY has Gillian Triggs not resigned as head of the Human Rights Commission that she’s trashed? Her commission should defend our human rights. But under the former law academic, it does not defend one of our most critical rights — free speech.
It has denounced as racist a cartoon by The Australian’s Bill Leak and invited complaints under the Racial Discrimination Act, which has happened.
This incitement to use the law to censor debate is appalling. But what of Triggs herself? Here are highlights of the case against her.
TRIGGS last week admitted she’d misled Parliament by telling a Senate inquiry she’d been misquoted in a report that said she’d described Senators as “seriously ill-informed and uneducated”. When told her interview had been recorded, she admitted the report was accurate.
TRIGGS also gave misleading evidence to a committee about what she claimed was an illegal “inducement” by the government to quit. It turned out to be the offer of a job the government claims she had herself suggested (which she denies).
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TRIGGS refused to hold an inquiry into children in detention while Labor was in power and filling our detention centres, but held one when the Liberals came into power and emptied them.
TRIGGS gave a Senate committee three versions of whether she’d discussed with Labor her plan to delay the inquiry until after the 2010 poll — no, can’t remember and yes.
TRIGGS falsely told her own inquiry that guards on Christmas Island were armed.
TRIGGS told a Senate committee she was “shocked” at being pressured to resign by the Abbott government, when it seems she had asked the secretary of the Attorney-General’s Department how she stood with the government and was told the truth: it had lost confidence in her.
TRIGGS claimed “almost all” children on Christmas Island “were coughing, were sick, were depressed, unable to communicate, weak”, which made her ask: “Why is this child not being treated?” False again. Most children were not sick and those that were were treated.
TRIGGS falsely linked the execution by Indonesia of drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran to the government’s border policies.
TRIGGS has recommended record compensation, including $350,000 to a PNG “refugee” who’d beaten his Australian wife to death with a bicycle.
So why is Triggs still there?
Originally published as Andrew Bolt on Gillian Triggs: Human Rights Commissioner must go
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