One hesitates to call the
President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs, a liar but
she leaves you little room to call her anything else. Her appalling display
when chairing an inquiry into child detention on Christmas Island last Friday
left Scott Morrison nonplussed and viewers of A-Pac Channel reaching for
bricks.
“I’m a lawyer”, she screeched when asked
to withdraw a claim that there were armed guards at the children’s detention
centre. She refused, and continued to make ridiculous assertions that there
wasn’t a blade of grass to be seen, that children were diseased, suicidal and
Ill-cared for without decent medical facilities.
Having recently visited the site Ms
Triggs was knowingly telling bald faced lies and was determined to mislead the
Press who were eager to report her “opinions”, rather than those of Minister
Morrison.
Such blatant dishonesty can be expected
of Sarah Hanson-Young, but not from a Human Rights Commissioner.
Ms Triggs, a confessed Lefty, was
appointed to the position of President of the Human Rights Commission in 2007
and up until 2013 had ample opportunity to criticise the sparse facilities
afforded more than twice the number of children detained under Labor. She chose
not to.
Yet conditions at Christmas Island under
Morrison are first class and above anything available to residents on the
island. “Children have a fenced pool and access to swimming lessons, schooling,
Tai Chi/Yoga, they participate in community sporting events, have a Persian
band, disco, movie nights, picnics and many other activities, all supervised”,
according to our Christmas Island contact.
“They have the best of medical care and
are immediately flown to the mainland if specialist care is needed, I wish we
had the same services ourselves”, he said.
“I find it most
distressing that her professional ethics have resulted in the detainees being
used as pawns for her political agenda.”
Perhaps Ms Triggs might reflect on the
care she afforded her own child, Victoria, who she describes as, "being
profoundly retarded as anyone who is still alive can be".
Triggs told the Melbourne Age, "Her
condition usually results in death shortly after birth. In fact, the doctors
kept saying to me, 'just leave her in the corner and she'll die.’ I know it
sounds terrible, but I'd look at Victoria and think, 'Well, you're going to
die, so I'm not going to invest too much in you.’”
But Victoria didn't die so, at six
months of age, an impatient Triggs, found a family prepared to look after her.
The family gave her the primary care she so desperately needed before she died
seven years ago at the age of 21.
Now there’s a CV befitting a
Commissioner for Human Rights.
Resign now Ms Trigg’s and stop degrading
your commission and your adopted country. You are truly an obnoxious disgrace.
Pickering
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