The president of the Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs, has urged young people to seek the truth and speak truth to power, in a grimly defiant speech at the end of a week in which Malcolm Turnbull declared she would not be reappointed. She declared the Australian public had a keen sense of the fair go, and would not be “hoodwinked for very much longer”. Gillian Triggs to go as human rights chief, Turnbull confirms Read moreTriggs said she had a duty to shine a light and not shrink in the face of political attacks or “misleading and ideologically distorted reporting by some in the media”. She said this was a serious problem, but it was an abstract one to try to communicate to the public. Perhaps it’s an important characteristic of a truth teller to be somewhat older, and not looking for advancement or preferment.

Source: The Guardian November 18, 2016 06:56 UTC