HREOC also risks becoming a laughing stock if they keep supporting 18c cases under the present conditions, you can't have the race discrimination commissioner actively soliciting complaints, as he did in the Bill Leek case.
HREOC actually does good work in other, more important areas such as matters of discrimination based on age and disability, you know, real world problems as opposed to highly subjective or fake claims of "racism".
18c is also now being used to settle factional disputes within the NSW Liberal party, the Trent Zimmerman case clearly shows the true intent of 18c, that it's never been anything but a political tool designed to employ ethnic minority groups in the service of vested interests.

It is an hopelessly compromised organisation having displayed evident bias frequently. Reputational loss is poison to legal determinations. The only way to clean these stables are to burn it down.

Any and all judgements can and will be dismissed without any arguement on merits as it's just "Triggy at it again"; even if its a fare and valid one.

Of course the complaint was vexatious! The complainant was/is too precious and self-absorbed to deal with other human beings. She should also be made to repay taxpayers the costs her that silliness incurred, and the Triggs woman should be sacked, the Commission closed down for good.

The natural resilience of aboriginal people was eroded in the 70s when they were deemed a special interest group and afforded rights and privileges not given to mainstream members of the community.
Before then they had a higher employment rate, better school attendance, a great ability to laugh at themselves and a desire to achieve in life at the same standard as white people.
As soon as they were deemed a special, disadvantaged group they began to lose their self belief that they could compete on a level playing field. Previously unheard of suicides began to happen. Drug and alcohol addiction flourished and identity politics became the driving factor, as opposed to natural ambition and self survival skills.
Pandora's box is well and truly open and I doubt we will ever return to the days of most aboriginal people striving to achieve as equals with the rest of the community. Victimhood is a far easier option, and those many aboriginal people simply getting on with their lives and quietly achieving will continue to be unheard and unrecognised.

What a pile of utter garbage.

What are you doing Leon, trying to build a case to get this conniving Prior woman out of having to pay legal costs of these kids & their families.

It is totally obvious that this smarty saw a chance for a quick buck, & went for the throats. This is proven by the fact she took a few thousand to drop others from the suit. Principle never entered into it.

This was always about the money, & never about anything even approaching a principle. Looked at seriously, the lab itself is an attack on any principle of fairness, or equality.

Even the thought of a taxpayer funded facility being restricted to use by one particular race should be upsetting the bleeding hearts & the aboriginals more than the rest of us. The fact that it doesn't proves that principal has nothing to do with their actions, just a lust & grab for more handouts.

Big Nana & Hasbeen,

Spot on! They are cunning. Remember that when you are asked to vote on the reconise referendum. You will probably get motherhood statements they want you to agree with, but which will be able to be twisted by the senile ex-lawyers on the High Court to hand whatever Aborigines want to them on a plate. One leading Aboriginal activist has admitted to an author that, if they stated what they want in plain, simple language, it would never get past the Australian people. No amount of legislation will overturn a High Court decision. It happened in Canada; it happened in New Zealand. In NZ, all the Chief Justice has to do, is to say that he disagrees with the government's intepretation of wording, and that's the end of the matter. In Canada, the Courts have taken over because of the "vague wording". Besides, we already know that our government duopoly is already willing for 3% of the population to eventually own 60% of the continent; they already have 30.1%, with another 30% plus pending. The latter claims have been accepted, but not ratified, by the Native Title Tribunal, but the Tribunal no longer accepts claims that are not almost certain to be granted.