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Frank Brennan and Janet Albrechtsen: a contrast in style : Comments
By Stephen Keim, published 19/10/2009The campaign in favour of a Human Rights Act captured the imagination of a large section of the public.
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In fact, he's probably the least credible person to be heading this project (a Jesuit Priest who hates abortion and euthanasia, prefers doctors to be able to deny services because of superstition- which will alienate any secular, liberal person- yet he's also a refugee advocate, which will alienate everyone else except for other hardcore religious fundies).
The ONLY credible position he has, in my opinion, is his advocacy for Indigenous rights.
Give me rights to initiate referendums, and real input into government policy,
state covered dental,
rights to full information,
some stronger Aboriginal equality rights and sovereignty rights,
rights against developers,
rights to abortions, to euthanasia,
protection of people leaking scandalous conspiracies,
and most importantly, the right to say NO if my city is to be used as a giant VIP party (as we saw in APEC and WYD).
Until most of these are secured, and there is NO trace of religious vilification laws, vital service providers like doctors being allowed to pick and choose their duties, or the rights of the Harry Seidlers to arbitrarily decide to impose giant shoeboxes on people that don't want it, you will know how I will vote when (if) I get a say in it being implemented.