Many Australians believe that the Human Rights Commission, especially as it was operated by Gillian Triggs, should be abolished. The likelihood of that happening is pretty much zero while we have the same old political dross lining up at each election. Our current Prime Minister has publicly shown his contempt for freedom as it doesn't "provide a single job".

The faux conservative Coalition mostly fails to select conservatives to public positions - the people they usually appoint could have just as easily been Labor choices - so while Labor is rarely in government, "it, or its acolytes, are always in power".

As Spectator Australia points out: although the Coalition has been in government since 2013, it has been "entirely ineffectual in arresting the leftward slide of the country and its key institutions".

But now, Spectator is enthusiastic about this week’s appointment of a new Commission President, Lorraine Finlay, whose values indicate she is a Bettina Arndt type.

Ms. Finlay could be a good prospect because she has been roundly criticised by Shadow Attorney-General, Mark Dreyfus, and "the unacceptably politicised Australian of the Year", Grace Tame.

However, Spectator does point out that other commissioners who are still there are "all of the Left", and will continue to act as "high-paid advocates and commentators against the interests of mainstream Australians". So, is the enthusiasm warranted?

I think that Bettina Arndt is (currently at least) a force for good- but her views have changed over time from memory. I'm unsure of her position on feminism- and the role of the sexes in society.

CM,

Here Bettina Arndt, a person we know, merely serves as a pointer to what we might be able to expect from a person we don’t yet know, and how different the Commission might be under her presidency.

Thanks ttbn

To paraphrase Aristotle:

Anybody can be critical
That is easy
But to be critical
of the right person
And to the right degree
And at the right time
And for the right purpose
And in the right way
That is not within
Everybody's power
And is not easy

Australians are currently being subjected to hitherto unprecedented control over, and incursions into, our lives by the state. We have been subjected to a seemingly inexhaustible and constantly changing supply of confusing, dehumanising and arbitrary edicts which are daily issued by a cabal of unelected health bureaucrats and their politician handlers. Our police forces have successfully cowed the citizenry into unquestioning obedience. Even more remarkable has been the willingness of many to become accessories to this political overreach by ‘ratting out’ our friends, families and