Kevin's right... Kirby destroyed all my faith in the judiciary with his bloody judicial activism.

Australia needs a Bill of Rights to protect 'freedom of expression' from Islamofascists -

Australia also needs a security force which can protect newspapers' editors, journalists and cartoonists, and foregin embassies etc, otherwise the Australian public will 'self-censor'and a Bill of Rights will be useless...

NSW Police could not handle the racist 'revenge attacks' where so-called Australians targeted other Anglo Australians, asking, "are you Australian" before punching, kicking, stabbing, and throwing a lump of concrete on a mans head fracturing his eye socket as happened in one of many attacks.

If Middle Eastern thugs are asking, "are you Australian" as a screen-test for an attack, then they should be stripped of Australian citizenship and deported.

By asking such question it reveals the attack to be a "hate-crime" and the attackers to be 'racists' who do not see themselves as Australian = a big problem for Australian society

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Baraka,

Curiosity: Why do u use a 'middle eastern' nickname?
Don't you find all your postings a little....'one of the same'?

Fellow_Human,

Have a look at the link - take your pick of definitions of 'baraka' -'Middle Eastern'...ah... not that one sorry...

'one is the same'... yes, exactly - no other issue in Australian society has held a knife to my throat and threatened to kill me because I was Australian -

ALL other social and political issues are subordinate to the Middle Eastern problem

- what is the point of 'fair' wages and working conditions, when you come home from work to find your daughter in tears because the Middle Eastern thugs have harrassed, intimidated, and threatened to rape her at school...

- what is the point of trains that run on time, when you can be attacked by gangs of Middle Eastern thugs on the trains who patrol the carriages looking for Australians to rape, or threaten with knives...

Fellow_Human, it doens't matter what the issue, it means nothing if it is tainted by Middle Eastern thugs... think about it... before you commence building, you have to clear away the rubble...

It would help if commentators bothered to read the Matilda Bill. Produced by moderate right wingers, it seeks to bolster protection of human rights while maintaining the sovereignty of parliament. Thus although the courts would have the power to declare an Act of parliament in conflict with the Bill, the parliament in turn would have the power to insist on the Act, which would become law.

Canada has had such a system for a while, and it works well.

Do we have a human rights record that is inferior to Canada? Too right we do. The recent spate of laws that allow detention without trail of people whe are not even suspected of involvement in crime are one example. Our shameful treatment of refugees and their children is another.

As for judges' decisions, have those who attack them bothered to read any?