Listen to the following video from 15:00 to 16:11 and you'll see one example of how her bias impacts her judgment.
It gets worse when she admits that an enquiry was off limits during Labor's term from when Julia Gillard announced the election date 6-months in advance in March 2013 (from approx 16:45).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGXi6S-7FCQ
Because I know how the Labor Party operate......
The numbers weren't going down ?She sounds like a Toorak labourer to me...... you sure she is a Labor hack rather than one of the unaligned chosen elites that finds seats for bums in commissions and boards where they make living as a talking head?
The numbers weren't going down ?
In March 2013 we were living in the reality that an election could be called at any time when the then PM Julia Gillard had already announced the election date of Sept 14 3013 in January of that year ??
There's no logical justification for the first inconsistency but perhaps with the second she'd been talking to Kevin Rudd.
The numbers weren't going down ?
In March 2013 we were living with the reality of an election at any time when the then PM Julia Gillard had already announced the election date of Sept 14 3013 in January of that year ??
There's no logical justification for the first inconsistency but perhaps with the second she'd been talking to Kevin Rudd.
She tried to claim they weren't going down as justification for the timing of her enquiry after earlier acknowledging that they were going down.I'm not sure why you think the numbers going down is such a killer argument for why there shouldn't have been an inquiry. I suspect the number of child abuse victims linked to the catholic church has reduced from say 20 years ago but they are still holding a royal commission into that and other institutions in 2015.
If your argument is that she should have held the inquiry when the numbers were at their peak (well yes maybe she should have but we only know it was the peak in hindsight).
She tried to claim they weren't going down as justification for the timing of her enquiry after earlier acknowledging that they were going down.
Scott Morrison does a pretty good job towards the end of the following video,Triggs would be a very interesting candidate for interrogation by Dr Lightman of "Lie To Me" fame.
Gillian Triggs: Set on a course of self-martyrdom - February 26, 2015 - by Paul Sheehan, SMH
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/gillian-triggs-set-on-a-course-of-selfmartyrdom-20150225-13oook.html
..She [Triggs] was never asked to resign. Both the Attorney-General, Senator George Brandis, and the head of his department, flatly denied ever asking for her resignation. In her testimony to the Senate inquiry on Tuesday, it emerged she had inferred this meaning out of comments made in a meeting that she herself had requested.
The government's confidence in her judgement started eroding a long time ago. Late last year, she claimed the detention centre on Christmas Island was patrolled by armed guards. This was not true and was one of several inflammatory observations that did not withstand scrutiny..
..Now, under Dr Triggs, the commission has moved to attach blame for the mental cruelties imposed on children in detention to the government which did not create the problem and has largely solved it.
This is not a first for the commission. It is a divisive bureaucracy which spends $25 million a year on its permanent quest for relevance in a country with an abundance of human rights protections.
I've no doubt she leans to the left but to think that she's going to have a conversation with Bowen and Burke where they suggest she screw the liberal party by waiting until after the election to launch the inquiry (or that she made the suggestion) is cuckoo land stuff.
The commission had an inquiry before the 2007 election when there were only 4 in detention under Howard and none after that while the Labor party allowed in 50,000 with 1200 deaths at sea....Why didn't Trigg or the HRC have an inquiry between 2007 and 2013 when the flood of illegals were allowed in by an incompetent government...At that stage over 2000 children were in detention and the detention centers were full and overflowing....There was no room left in detention centers so the Green/Labor party allowed these people into the community without proper scrutiny just to relieve the pressure on the detention centers....Trigg gloated how quick the Green/Labor party had processed these illegals in just 3 months while the Liberal Party were taking 6 months....Now you can see why.
Gillard called the September election in March 2013 and Trigg admitted had she released the report after March 2013 it could have been political damaging to the Labor Party....The Labor Party could not possibly have been in caretaker mode for 6 months....She is a Labor hack and that cannot be denied.
It was all about one big effort by Trigg, Bowen and Burke to discredit the Liberal Party...IMO They are rotten to the core.
For anyone interested in the facts, as opposed to Labor's, and the good Professor's political opportunism. It's in the Love Media, so it must be true.
Watch out for the inevitable I'll Ride With You Gillian social media campaign.
"This is not a first for the commission. It is a divisive bureaucracy which spends $25 million a year on its permanent quest for relevance in a country with an abundance of human rights protections."
Wasn't the HRC a Labor creation in the first place? I think it came into being during the Hawke era.
I would like to see a list of all the other garbage reports this mob has produced for $25 million a year.
Maybe you would also like to criticise the appointment of Tim Wilson, IPA and Liberal Party functionary to the Commission at a salary of $389,000 plus $56,000 expenses pa. (That's more than a Cabinet Minister).
Mr Wilson has formerly said that the Commission should be abolished, but he is number one for hypocrisy when it comes to snouts at the trough.
If they are all part of it then YES.
My question is about whether the HRC is giving us value for money.
I'm basicallly a liberal voter (if you don't want to vote Labor, there's not a lot else to choose from (no the Greens are not a grown-ups party)).
I doubt if it is.
There seems to be no shortage of lawyers who want to stick their noses into the human rights issue who are not paid a salary by the taxpayer, so why not leave it to them to put the case ?
Because they don't have the power to force the Government to hand over information?
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