This URL should give you the transcript of the judgment:

prior-v-queensland-university-of-technology-ors-no-2-2016-fcca-2853.pdf

Note that Ms Prior is the lone complainant, and that the QUT, as well as eight students, are the respondents. No sign of the AHRC.

So their role is to take up someone's case, assure them that they can win it, get them to complain, then drop out and leave them to it. Clean hands.

So will Ms Prior be sued for damages ?

Meanwhile, the AHRC touts for business in relation to Bill Leak's courageous work. It demands that he explain himself to the AHRC while it waits for a complaint. Presumably it will assure some complainant of legal success, and big bucks, and then piss off again.

How many of us have put some of Bill's cartoons up on our fridge doors, or pin-boards ? He gets across complex issues in an instant, in a world which has evolved to absorb news in seconds and is impatient with wordy explanations, like this one. If that isn't a massive contribution to world literature, I don't know what is.

So I wish to propose Bill Leak for next year's Nobel Prize for Literature. And maybe the Nobel Peace Prize as well.

I'd be so proud ! Talk about punching above our weight !

Joe

the fact that Triggs is still there and the abc is still funded shows exactly why we need a Trump in Australia.

Right wing nutters...section 18C has been in existence since 1995 brought in by Paul Keating. Yes a Labor initiative and any Labor legislation MUST be wrong of course.

However, during the 11 years of Howard's Prime Ministership, the LNP had no interest in changing 18C despite numerous cases.

Had it not been for Bolt and The Australian and the result of his guilty verdict, the issue would have been a non event and as has often been pointed out...Section 18D gives anybody "freedom of speech" in a relevant context; except the freedom to knowingly lie.

Further the AHRC is obliged by legislation to investigate any complaint (please provide evidence that they "tout" for business those making this accusation). Under the governing legislation they are obliged to mediate only and in the event that mediation fails, the complainant has the right to litigate. There is not one shred of evidence that the complainant was "urged" or recommended to proceed to court by the AHRC.

It is probably not surprising that you all have it wrong, even Brandis and Turnbull have not bothered to read/understand the AHRC charter.

The fact that there are people who think we need a Trump in Australia shows us exactly why the ABC should still be funded and Triggs is still needed!

The huge cock up that is Triggs is difficult to justify under any circumstances.