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The Forum > General Discussion > Should Professor Gillian Triggs - President of the HR Commission resign?

Should Professor Gillian Triggs - President of the HR Commission resign?

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Well goodness me!

I see CH, otb and the glorious platypus (who appears oddly to be missing a shift key on his/her PC/tablet) are so busy slamming refugees, their kids and the rest of us - that they've no capacity to be outraged the the first law officer of the land saw fit to allegedly offer an inducement to a public official.

Come on otb, surely you can manage a bit of your standard moral outrage on that one. If a Labor Attorney General had acted in a similar manner, we'd have to rush for the smelling salts - you'd be that overcome in your denunciation.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-24/labor-wants-afp-to-investigate-ag-department-over-triggs-offer/6257940

"Gillian Triggs: Opposition calls on AFP to investigate allegations George Brandis offered Human Rights Commission president 'inducement to resign'"
Posted by Poirot, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 8:45:29 AM
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LOL Poirot, that is the Opposition doing what they do. -The ones who created the problem in the first place and held 2,000 children in detention.

That Gillian Triggs hasn't offered to resign earlier is very surprising and inexplicable.

However, she has demonstrated why the Commission should be closed down and its functions absorbed into the mainstream departments. Honestly now, if it sits for ten years on what she would now like the Parliament to believe was an urgent problem, 2,000 back then, what is the worth of the Commission at all?

The Commission waited all of that time and until the numbers had been taken back to 200 to report? It was too 'political' before but quite OK now? No wonder the AHC does not have the confidence of the Parliament. Why not ask the public if they would support the continued waste of taxpayers' dollars on maintaining a separate bureaucracy for the AHC elite?
Posted by onthebeach, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 9:43:42 AM
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The Opposition said the offer of another government position to Professor Triggs by the secretary of Attorney-General George Brandis's department on his behalf could constitute corrupt and unlawful conduct.
Shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus wrote to the AFP Commissioner seeking an immediate investigation and possible prosecution regarding the conduct of Senator Brandis.
Professor Triggs said there was 'no doubt in her mind' that the request to resign and the offer of further work were 'very clearly linked'

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Posted by 579, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 9:56:36 AM
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Poirot

"The difference being that you're talking out of the top of your hat...like runner and Hasbeen.

None of you could give a hoot regarding the actual substance of the matter."

And you lady are talking out of the lower part of your back. If a Lib did such a thing, you'd be screaming from the roof tops, even perhaps if the perpetrator was a female. Just a lefty troll seems a good description.
Posted by Hasbeen, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 10:09:03 AM
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Thanks for that, otb.

So you can't find it within yourself to crank up your moral outrage meter on the alleged attempt to induce a public official?

Isn't it lovely to be the purveyor of selective outrage!

Problem for the govt is that although they have certain powers, it turns out that they're not particularly bright - at every turn their ineptitude and dodgy dealings are exposed.
Posted by Poirot, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 10:10:24 AM
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Hasbeen,

Any comment on the alleged attempt of inducement to a public official?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-24/bradley-brandis-or-triggs-must-go-and-it-shouldnt-be-her/6251370

"George Brandis's attack on Gillian Triggs, and her testimony that she was asked to resign as president of the Human Rights Commission, shows he has trampled all over the conventions that govern his own role as first law officer"

"She says the secretary, Chris Moraitis, told her she would be offered another government job if she fell on her sword. At the same (super awkward) hearing, Brandis then said he had lost confidence in Triggs, that the impartiality of the HRC has been fatally compromised and that he cannot support it if it is not impartial.

This is, wow, extraordinary.

The first law officer of the Commonwealth has gone on record directly accusing the president of the HRC of political bias in the performance of her statutory duties. It would be no less incendiary if he alleged that the Chief Justice of the High Court or the Chief Commissioner of the Federal Police was corrupt.

That's the territory we're in. It's a declaration of war. And it's wrong, very badly wrong."

"We clothe certain positions with independence and statutory protection from interference, because of their importance to our system of checks and balances. The Human Rights Commissioners are included in this, because they need to have the freedom to say things the government of the day doesn't want to hear. Indeed, in relation to the issue of children in detention, the HRC is saying what almost nobody in Federal Parliament, and much of the community, wants to hear."

But tell me Hasbeen, otb and whoever...answer my previous question.

WHY? - if Triggs was such a problem and the govt was so unhappy with her performance - did Brandis offer to move her sideways? Why offer her another "senior role" working for the govt?

It stinks to high heaven, and you know it does.

What else is interesting of late on the forum is the number of righties who appear happy to jettison the rule of law and statutory obligations - the foundations of our democracy.
Posted by Poirot, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 10:23:40 AM
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