by Jim Ball | Jun 16, 2017 | Blog, Human Rights Commission, Triggs |
Just what the nations needs. Not “…Lawyer Rosalind Croucher, the favoured candidate to replace Gillian Triggs as president of the Australian Human Rights Commission, has been labelled “Triggs lite” as some conservative MPs caution against the appointment.... by Jim Ball | May 4, 2017 | Blog, Random Notes, The Left, Triggs |
The difference between the left of today and the left of previous years is that where as in previous years they went about their work at the margins and kept their heads down, today they are out of the closet, loud, proud, in your face and because of the education... by Jim Ball | Apr 4, 2017 | 18C, Blog, Malcolm Turnbull, Triggs
For now at least the government may have lost the battle to tweak, tinker or even abolish 18C but with Gillian Triggs tenure about to expire in a few months there is another opportunity to bring the HRC and the application of 18C under control with the appointment of... by Jim Ball | Apr 3, 2017 | 18C, Blog, Triggs
Two articles in The Weekend Australian (1/4) should send shivers down the spine of Australians who still believe in freedom of thought and expression, and basic democratic values. The first (“Ideology ousts news at ANU paper”), relates the experience of the young news... by Jim Ball | Apr 1, 2017 | 18C, Blog, Triggs |
Not surprisingly from what she said she would like a law to control what is said around the kitchen table. How else to interpret this aside… “….Liberal backbencher Eric Abetz has attacked Human Rights Commission President Gillian Triggs for a... by Jim Ball | Mar 8, 2017 | 18C, Blog, Human Rights Commission, Random Notes, Triggs |
Random Note #275341 As Rowan Dean incisively points out in his Courier Mail piece at the link below, the entire original commentary that triggered the 18c/QUT/HRC case was meant as a sardonic, laconic, joke. A pisstake to highlight the irony and blinding absurdity of...