Dear Steele,

I will let you know how things pan out regarding
the dinner. I've got friends who are interested
in forming a table and the evening is also for a
good cause. The money collected will go towards
funding for human rights.

It is a shame, I agree when some people feel the
need to be abusive on discussion forums. It's a
huge turn off and makes one cringe. The
art of debating is a skill that is not easily
acquired. However, there are posters on this
forum whose comments I do look forward to reading.
That's the reason I keep coming back.

leoj,

You have consistently ignored the links and
explanations given on this discussion.
As well as my comments on page 4, where I
clearly expressed my sympathy for the students
and their families. Yet you persist with your
derogatory comments

Yes/no: Triggs announced the findings of an investigation into refugee children on Manus and/or Nauru. She found that in 2012-2013, there were hundreds of children in detention. By the time she released her report, there were two. Hundreds under labor, report delayed, election, coalition government and numbers of refugee children in detention reduced to two. THEN report released.

Yes/no: very poor case mounted against three students, destroying their studies and careers in the process. HRC with discretion to drop the case at any time.

Yes/no: HRC touted for complaints against the wonderful Bill Leak, thereby partly burying the issues leading up to child incarceration the NT. Piss-weak case dismissed. Death of Bill Leak.

Liberty ? 'What is it good for' ? Well, obviously Triggs has done well out of it. Vive liberte ! Vive liberte de parler ou ecrire ? Not so much.

Joe

Foxy,

Compassion is in the doing. Your sympathy for the students and the families fails the 'pub test' where you continually rationalise ways out for Triggs and for the Commission and leave the QUT students as necessary collateral damage for the greater good (which in itself is debatable).

Triggs is the master of plausible denial who takes unfair advantage of her legal training and power.

Your hubris might be a dead giveaway too :(

Foxy,
Reading your link, it is clear that Liberty Australia, the body that gives out these "awards" is an insubstantial, self appointed group of left whinge activists, and that all the "awards" are for a particular left whinge political agenda.

Triggs record of flamboyant and outrageous pronouncements, such as that the ANZ should compensate a man they fired for not revealing his criminal record for bank robbery, for being caught lying to the senate twice, for postponing an inquiry to benefit Labor, and finally using her position to persecute QUT students through the courts for expressing their opinions, makes it clear that this loathsome degenerate got the award for extreme partisanship towards labor and the greens in yet another case of left whinge back slapping, and that this award is not worth the paper it's printed on.

In a couple of months Triggs will be gone leaving only a skid mark on record of the AHRC and Turnbull will replace her with someone with actual ethics and competence.

Dear Shadow Minister,

And where will Mr Turnbull find such a person among
his colleagues?