Dear Shadow Minister,

Go back and read the link I cited again.

It's clearly explained what Professor Triggs
did or did not do. You are not presenting
things accurately.

Foxy,

I read through the link, and it only dealt with one of the 3 instances she mislead parliament, even then it was clear that she absolutely insisted that a journalist had lied about an interview, and only retracted her accusation when the journalist in question mentioned that she had recorded the interview.

Given her insistence, that the journalist was quoting her directly and that the interview was recent, it is clear to me that she either deliberately lied or she was delusional, in either case she is no longer fit to remain head of the AHRC.

Dear Shadow Minister,

The link explains her position quite clearly
including the vast amount of cases that have
to be dealt with on a daily basis, and the
difficulties involved in each one, including
trying to remember what was said when. Mistakes
do happen from time to time - and I accept that.

As for her position as President of the HRC and
what she should do? She has already informed the
Attorney-General that she will not be staying
after July when her term expires. I think it would
be fair to allow her to leave with some dignity
instead of turning all this into a political
witchhunt.

Triggs benefits from the positive stereotyping of women and also from her 'kindly grandmother' image.

However, from her alleged very dismissive, cruel and vindictive treatment of the young male students from QUT, she is the archetypal schoolyard to boss/boardroom bully that women especially recall from their schooldays. -Men too, who remember the 'Who will teacher/parent/authority/public believe, me or you?' princesses, who always got away with spiteful psychological game-playing and blame-shifting.

The archetype of the male footy player as the school bully is seriously flawed, missing out as it does the girl bullies and the clever teachers' pets who manipulate get others to do their dirty work.

How can anyone seriously argue that the thuggery of very senior bureaucrats who are trained in the law and used it and the authority trusted in them as a weapon against ordinary members of the public, should escape Scott Free?

Then when they themselves are asked to be accountable and are put on the spot, they threaten legal action and would expect the taxpayer (including their victims) to stump up for that as well?

Why shouldn't the head of a very powerful QUANGO, who escapes responsibility to a minister, be held accountable for her actions?

Waiting for the ABC's bullying feministas and Emily's Listers to buff up and fete this one as a model for girls, but what girls might they be, one might ask?

Foxy

Your article was essentially trying to trivialise what Triggs did. Being busy is no excuse for lying under oath.

Claiming under oath that a journalist was lying is serious allegation, and only retracting when a recording was produced is the most cynical of responses.

Triggs' term is already in disgrace, her only honourable move is to resign with some shred of dignity. While it is true that she will be gone in July, it is obviously not a matter of her choice. Turnbull will appoint a replacement, and it will not be hard to find some one more competent.

There is no way Triggs will do anything but continue to bluff it out. Then she can join Gillard in re-writing her own herstory.

The discussion should move onto the HRC as the creature of the left, Triggs just made that even more obvious, and importantly, the role of the ABC in promoting the left agenda. Chris Kenney was spot on,

"ABC, Greens, Labor conceal AHRC’s Gillian Triggs’s blunders"
December 17, 2016

The unfailing ability of Gillian Triggs to contradict herself and mislead her interrogators at parliamentary committees has to be seen to be believed. The trouble is much of the media prefers to keep this bizarre and regular spectacle from the public.

Perhaps the one thing more extraordinary than the Australian Human Rights Commission president’s capacity to frustrate these inquiries is the way other publicly funded institutions run a protection racket for her. As the unofficial patron saint of virtue signallers, Triggs has her sins ­either ignored or censored by Greens and ALP political operatives, as well as the ABC and much of Canberra’s press gallery.

Few episodes provide a clearer insight into the partisanship of our media/political class and the fact-free nature of their ideological battles. In this post-truth realm, a member of the so-called elite is given immunity from mainstream standards and the media/political class suppresses her failings because they want to share in the objectives and virtues she professes.

The ABC’s treatment of Triggs demonstrates how the public broadcaster often functions as an arm of green-left propaganda rather than as an objective public information institution. This matters because it has a profound effect on our political debate.

The ABC’s connivance helps swing the tide of national debate away from the sensible centre, luring politicians ever more towards the crowd Robert Manne calls the “permanent oppositional moral political community”.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/chris-kenny/abc-greens-labor-conceal-ahrcs-gillian-triggss-blunders/news-story/f743b16ecd7e8a8cea263eb7f3e21e89