"There is already a gathering number of the public and the politicians who represent them who believe that the Human Rights Commission itself should be abolished."

Only from the rampant far-right portion of the population - and the IPA (whose views, for some reason, are amply represented on this forum:)

Meanwhile, Tones has taken to labelling the rule of law "sabotage" in regard to a coal mining decision.

Newspoll is still missing : )

Foxy,

Triggs was clearly exposed as having acted in a blatantly partisan manner contrary to her mandate. The only thing preventing her from being sacked is her iron clad protections. She now spends her time issuing ludicrous recommendations for vast payouts to psychopathic murderers and armed robbers, which have no basis in Australian law, and are universally ignored.

She has made the AHRC a laughing stock and effectively toothless. Her supporters come from the far left 'handbag hit squad' of the greens and labor, but most of those I know think that she's a complete joke.

SM,

You appear to be a tad confused.

It's Abbott and his merry cohorts who are laughing stocks and struggling.

They've made a pig's ear of governance.....

Which is really the kindest thing one can say under the circumstances.

Should the philosophical love child himself make another one of his infamous captains picks and appoint his spiritual mummy, the new Commissioner for Government Propaganda, after all she is now out on her ass, and looking for a new trough for that big snout, only if a helicopter and personal butler are included.

"There is already a gathering number of the public and the politicians who represent them who believe that the Human Rights Commission itself should be abolished."
Poirot, Beach forgot to include the 'Shock Jocks' in that, after all they are the real voice of Aussie. They always speak for the silent majority.

Foxy, please stop putting up those factual and reasoned posts, they fly in face of the hysteria that is the rabid right.
"Her (Triggs) supporters come from the far left 'handbag hit squad' of the greens and labor, but most of those I know think that she's a complete joke." Shadow, and how many do you actually know, none, zero, zilch!

Yes, Paul....

But I'll leave it to Peter Hartcher to expand on my last post:

"In the week before Bronwyn Bishop's career-ending exposure for abusing the public purse, Tony Abbott issued a warning to some of his ministers.

It was not a warning about travel expenses or about any impending disaster.

Rather, it was about the absence of disaster: things were going so well for the government, the Prime Minister said, that they needed to guard against the danger of complacency.

His ministers were incredulous. Delusion, thy name is Tony. It's funny to everyone except, apparently, Abbott himself. It was like his gag on Thursday morning when he declared that "everything this government does is about jobs". The statistician supplied the punchline almost immediately – June unemployment had worsened from to 6.1 per cent to 6.3, the highest in 13 years.

The government is so lost, its standing so poor, its members so sick of Abbott's captain's picks, that the party is sullenly contemplating, once again, whether it needs to replace the captain.

"In February he asked for time," as he pleaded for his job in the party room, says one Liberal MP. "He asked many of us for six months." It's been six months, a deadline that expired this week.

"The reality is that nothing's changed and nothing's improved. He asked some people to give him to the end of the year. Well, we aren't quite there yet.

"This government is doing some good things. But there isn't anyone who thinks this is a good government." The Abbott government is approaching an existential moment. The existential question: What is the point of the Abbott government?"

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/peter-hartcher-reform-adrift-in-pointless-politics-of-abbott-government-20150807-giu7mq.html

Poirot,

How you so easily forget the complete stuff up in every area that was the Labor government.

Today we see that Tony Burke (fitting name) was not only cheating on his wife at the office, but paid for his mistress to accompany him in first class on his overseas travels.

It would have cost the taxpayer less if he had done a Craig Thompson and simply paid for a hooker on his credit card.