Dear Joe,

You need to learn more
about what the HRC can and can't do and what it's
role is and the powers that it posseses.

I shall leave it there.

It's up to you.

Congratulations to Liberty Victoria for announcing Gillian Triggs as their award winner.

She has been a strident, powerful warrior for those without a voice, for those refugees and staff kept silenced by dictatorial offshore detention policies, and most particularly for those hundreds of children in detention who had so few of our powerful prepared to speak for them.

Without her advocacy, her pugnacious energy and her steadfast values the cruel, punitive and morally reprehensible treatment of some of the most vulnerable in our care would have continued with only muted challenges.

To those many Gillian gave voice to she should most certainly be honoured and there will come a time in history when we as a nation will look back in shame to what we did to those seeking refuge and Gillian Triggs will be one of the few reasons for us to hold our heads up.

Good on ya.

SteeleRedux, 'Gillian this and 'Gillian that'

Posters such as yourself demonstrate the chasm between the leftist 'Progressives' (Regressives) and the real Left whose legitimacy they like to claim.

Any self-respecting Leftie's skin would crawl at the cringing, genuflecting, supplicant, obsequious servant who is now so urgently keen to present his undying praise and devotion to a capricious empress of the legal establishment, one of the self-entitled and very, very well provided for, comfortable forever as guaranteed by the superb golden handshake courtesy of the taxpayer.

The adulation certainly isn't because of any service done for free speech, or for any consideration for the 'Useful Idiot' drones who are stroking and tending this Queens Bee of the leftists. It is because she has in some way realised your hatred for the society you are part of and more directly, by appearing to be politically partisan, that she has 'earned' your fleeting loyalty.

The end justifies the means, huh? And what about those QUT students she so roughly used and whose rights she abused? What about Bill Leak too?

Dear Steele,

The following link explains why Prof. Gillian Triggs
received the award:

http://libertyvictoria.org.au/content/gillian-triggs-takes-out-free-speech-award

I'm tempted to buy tickets to the event in July and
organise a table. My husband has made the offer (It's
close to my birthday). What an evening that would be.

leoj,

You've got a very disturbing habit of labelling
people whose opinions don't agree with yours.
Labels belong on clothes, not people.

Stop it.

I imagine the board deciding these awards rolling over and laughing. The only criteria is that one is an avowed left whinger.

We had Barack Obama awarded the Nobel peace prize for being black,
Al Gore awarded the Nobel peace prize for climate change whilst personally consuming at home and at more fossil fuels than 10 normal US families,
Whine Swan getting the best Treasurer award whilst presiding over the greatest deficits in Aus history and a plethora of fiscal cock ups, etc, etc.

Now we have Gillian Triggs awarded a prize for defense of free speech while using the mechanisms of state to punish people for speaking freely.

What's next? Putin awarded the peace prize?