Although the Human Rights Commission spends a lot of its time digging up imaginary wrongs and encouraging people to get outraged and lodge complaints about the silliest of trifles,  it is amazing that it does nothing about the really serious breaches of human rights that go on under its nose.

This shortcoming has been very noticeable in Melbourne recently during Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle and the sad fact is that the HRC has done nothing about the rampant abuses of human rights on show during the 19 hours of that so- called masterpiece. But