Kill the Commission: free speech
There is nothing that the Australian Human Rights Commission does that cannot be done by the Parliament, the media or the courts. In the cause of free speech, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull should kill the Commission.
Bring in the clowns
In 1987, Justice Marcus Einfeld, Commission President (1986-90), and latterly guest of her Majesty’s prisons (sentenced in 2009 to three years in prison for perjury and for attempting to pervert the course of justice) addressed a Parliamentary committee at old Parliament House, Canberra.
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