Govt has failed to protect people: Triggs

THE botched Border Force operation is the same violation of domestic Australian rights that occurs in offshore detention centres, says Gillian Triggs.

IN passing dozens of laws that infringe on Australians' rights, federal parliament has failed the people, Gillian Triggs says.

THE president of the Australian Human Rights Commission delivered a lecture in Darwin on Thursday night on the creeping powers of government and how they infringe on civil liberties.