Sev Ozlowski is correct in his assertion that Human Rights organisations in Australia do promote those "human rights" which the Left can use to promote their unpopular agendas, and they are strangely quiet on those "human rights" which can be used to oppose those left wing agendas. His solution is to reform these organisations to a more balanced approach.

This where he and I disagree. We have the example of the ABC. Everyone knows how hard it was to make even the smallest ideological change in the ABC, with ABC advocates using the "who me?" defence to every charge of bias.

To me, "Human Rights" are a crock. Many of the principles of "human rights" were invented by US slave owners in 1776, who must have considered that black people were not human anyway.

Human rights contradict each other. Human rights are just like any moral absolute, take them to their most extreme position and they become a parody of the very principles that they claim to be protecting. Human rights can be undemocratic. They can be "interpreted" by activist judges to over ride the people's parliament and mean whatever a judge says they mean. Finally, there appears to be two classes of humans beings when we have a principle of "Human Rights", and then another principle of "Indiginous Human Rights."

Human Rights are advocated primarily by loony left activists who know for certain that they can never create their Aquarian world in a democratic country, because they know that the incorrigibly conservative electorate will never accept their peculiar worldview.

Just on the issue of fleets of illegal immigrants now pouring over our beaches, the activists know that a Bill of Rights which sublimated the Australian people's parliament would allow them to end world poverty by giving every person in the Third World the unfettered right to come into Australia. Their problem is, that if they push again for a Bill of Rights, the electorate is smart enough to figure out that this would be nothing more than a sugar coated cyanide pill for societal self extinction.

LEGO - "Human Rights" are a crock.

Actually its infinitely more insidious than you suggest. The Human Rights & Equal Opportunities Act states that 'Australians are not a race', ergo any alien in this country has more rights than citizens where racial discrimination is concerned. Personally I believe whatever numbskulled parasites who came up which that hairbrained idea should be lined up and shot at dawn, ideally after being charged with treason. Unfortunately the bloodsucking parasites which infest Canberra have effectively rescinded any treason laws that may have been usable to inflict proper punishment on them. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR And people wonder why I can't abide politicians !!

The children's commissioner was not given the right to advocate for refugee children and the ALP have always been crueller to refugees than even Howard was as the records show.

The commission was nobled by Gillard who over turned all the good work done by Rudd on these issues because she simply does not care.

But Sev wanted refugees to be shoved off to Manus Island and Nauru so his credibility is done with.