Triggs also says campaign to change section 18C of Racial Discrimination Act has been exhausted due to public supportThe outgoing Human Rights Commission president, Gillian Triggs, has said the creation of a new “super ministry” of home affairs was part of a hastening trend towards centralised and unchallengeable government power. Triggs said the ad hominem attacks were wasteful and failed to progress the issues. “I think that there’s been a strategic advantage in attacking the individual rather than the point at issue. “It was clearly being run by a small number of people absolutely determined that there would be change,” she said. Victoria and the ACT already have human rights charters and the Queensland government is debating the issue.

Source: The Guardian July 24, 2017 03:56 UTC