In 2013, Gary Johns declared the Commission redundant, citing the advances in rights achieved before the Commission's costly existence, and since universal adoption of rights in all States and Territories.

There is nothing for the Commission to do, and it is now manufacturing offences, usually thrown out by the courts - all at great expense to taxpayers.

In The Australian, Jennifer Oriel charges the Commission with activism, acting against us by "advocating porous borders" and "suppression of dissent".

The appalling action of Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane, the $300,000 a year ex-speech writer, who touted for complaints against Bill Leak, is well known to us all. It took only one lousy grinch to get Leak hauled up before the Kangaroo Court. Like the QUT students outrage, it will probably be thrown out by a judge.

Oriel believes that the Australian Human Rights Commission should have been retired after formal equality was introduced accross Australian institutions. And so do I; and so should, I believe, all fair-minded people.

That will leave 1 less place politicians can place, friends, people who know where the bodies are buried and other useless trash no one would give a high paying job too.

Like usual at taxpayer expense.

Only 3% of cases taken on by the the HRC ever reach court. The 97% are handled in secret, so the paying public hasn't a clue how these cases were handled, what apologies were extracted, or how much compensation was extorted on the quiet. We only found out that one or two of the QUT students had money ripped off them to get the litigant and the Nazis of their backs because of the public outrage which caused leaks.

As for 18c itself, some lawyers now believe that it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. I don't know, but it is possible. Australian Federal governments commit unconstitutional acts all the time. Interference in education is one area.

We need a root and branch clear out of all of these "Nice little earners" for the mates of pollies and ex pollies. Whilst the government are about it knock off the quangos too.I know we have to have lots of special pets in the ethnic community to lavish money on but there is something else than can be taken off of our taxes.
The amount of waste and red tape is staggering and the government should put up it's own saving plan to save the taxpayer with a rated percentage of taxes cut annually.

Australia has adopted much from the Stalin and Hitler era.
Our legal system with Stalin's Tribunals and Hitler's lawyers running the courts should all be scrapped.
Gillian Triggs and Tim South Phone Insane are judge jury and executioners against anyone who is dragged before them.
They both studied the court room techniques of Lawyer Roland Freisler and have adopted Communist Tribunal procedure.
The Family Court is another area where decisions are made behind closed doors.
Australia must scrap immediately these corrupt Government funded
organisation.

On the other hand, even Triggs has suggested that 'offend' and 'insult' be removed, to be replaced by 'vilify'. Sounds good, IF they also include the word 'intentionally':

So it could be an offense to 'intentionally vilify, humiliate or intimidate' anyone on any grounds, and certainly to 'incite to violence against' or 'do violence to'. The onus would thus be on the complainant to prove intent: the person accused would be deemed innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around.

That could do it. It would also restrict what some imams are saying every week in the mosques, i.e. their power to 'intentionally vilify' various groups, including rival Muslim groups.

What do you reckon ? People's vote :)

Joe

Just reflecting on the abandonment of the case against Bill Leak: how many nurses and doctors and teachers and coppers out there in remote areas over the last forty years, would have been able to confirm what Bill leak was getting at ? In lurid detail ?

If the AHRC, behind the scenes as usual, advised somebody to take the matter to court (and then ducked out), how many people do you reckon could come forward, providing countless examples from one end of the remote arras to the other, chapter and verse, taking up the court's time and knocking up perhaps millions in court costs, for complainants to pay if they lost ?

Let truth and evidence prevail, I say. As it should, everywhere.