Filling the AHRC with luvvies

Posted on 4:36 pm, December 24, 2013 by Samuel J
It is incredible that the AHRC President, Gillian Triggs,
warned on Monday that Mr Wilson’s appointment as a commissioner to the AHRC – with a salary of about $320,000 a year – may have to come at the expense of programs on school bullying and education for older Australians.
The Attorney-General rightly points out that the staffing budget for the AHRC has risen by $5.4 million over the past 3 years – an increase of almost 50 per cent over that period.
As at 30 June 2013, the organisation comprised 143 staff:6 statutory (ie: the President and Commissioners), 1 SES Band 2, 2 SES Band 1, 26 EL2, 33 EL1, 32 APS6 and 43 other.
It has been stacked by the luvvies and now Tim Wilson will be one out of 143 (or thereabouts). The Human Rights Commissioner will be vastly outnumbered by those who want to deny him human rights.
Triggs should resign in disgrace. She has shown herself unable, as the organisation’s CEO, to control expenditure which has spiraled out of control with her in charge.
Once Triggs has resigned, the Attorney-General should appoint Tim Wilson as President and Human Rights Commissioner.
Catherine Branson was appointed President of the HRC on 7 August 2008 and then appointed the Human Rights Commissioner on 12 July 2009 before resigning from the Commission on 29 July 2012.
So there is precedent for Tim to be both the President and Human Rights Commissioner.
Brandis should make it so.

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51 Responses to Filling the AHRC with luvvies

  1. jupes
    #1122874, posted on December 24, 2013 at 4:42 pm
    Once Triggs has resigned, the Attorney-General should appoint Tim Wilson as President and Human Rights Commissioner.
    LOL
    Oh to be a fly on the wall when Tim gives Liz Broderick her performance revue.
  4. JC
    #1122889, posted on December 24, 2013 at 4:52 pm
    So there is precedent for Tim to be both the President and Human Rights Commissioner.
    Wouldn’t that be a scream. The JC leftie suicide hotline would be going 24/7.
    Which reminds me, what’s going on with the Climate Authority and the authoritarians. Why are they still there when it’s obvious the government has no intention of listening to one single word they say? It wouldn’t be the money angle, would it? No siree.
  5. Michael
    #1122921, posted on December 24, 2013 at 5:29 pm
    What on earth do 143 people do. When I conducted reviews of government agencies in Howard years always found staffing was 3 times what was needed to deliver service by private sector or an NGO. Has obviously been stacked .
  6. duncanm
    #1122924, posted on December 24, 2013 at 5:35 pm
    Tim could volunteer to do it for ~ $100k.
    That’d screw with their minds and faux sense of fairness.
  7. Jannie
    #1122925, posted on December 24, 2013 at 5:35 pm
    What a cornucopea of treasure the “Commission” must be to the comfortable, caring, budget retarded Left. What a cool, remunerated, gig it must be. That org structure looks like the tea lady is paid at management level.
  8. Ant
    #1122935, posted on December 24, 2013 at 5:39 pm
    Is it inaccurate to call these people bottom feeding scum?
    They get paid a fortune by money pilfered from working people to add to their already lavishly gilded lifestyles and then THE INSTANT something or someone comes along that just might make them have to behave in a way that justifies it all and they run to wheel out ‘children being bullied’ as though we’re all idiots who believe any crap they can think of.
    Time Brandis took the cleaver out and swung it down hard on these oxygen wasting blowhards.
  9. C.L.
    #1122954, posted on December 24, 2013 at 5:54 pm
    Once Triggs has resigned, the Attorney-General should appoint Tim Wilson as President and Human Rights Commissioner.
    Everybody: stop strategising the HRC’s rehabilitation.
    It’s a lefty game.
    The body has to be shut down entirely. Destroyed.
  10. Gab
    #1122961, posted on December 24, 2013 at 5:59 pm
    It has been stacked by the luvvies and now Tim Wilson will be one out of 143 (or thereabouts). The Human Rights Commissioner will be vastly outnumbered by those who want to deny him human rights.
    Yes and haven’t the luvvies carried on a treat over one conservative being appointed to an agency infested with leftists. Maybe they think (ha!) Wilson will contaminate them with right-minded ideas. I predict Wilson will be subjected to passive-aggressive bullying in the workplace, similar to how whilstleblowers are treated by the establishment.
  11. braddles
    #1122968, posted on December 24, 2013 at 6:07 pm
    The HRC sounds like a mini-ABC, and is a law unto itself. One conservative appointee will not make a difference. Wilson has a hopeless task if he is supposed to reform that mob.
  12. duncanm
    #1122972, posted on December 24, 2013 at 6:09 pm
    I think Brandis has played the long game here.
    He knew the AHRC were a bunch of soft blowhards who couldn’t possibly entertain the thought of someone not of the left joining their cabal.
    They’re not even professional enough to sort out their bitching in private.. I suspect he knew that, too – previous form?
    The public is not dumb enough to believe that school bullies will now run rampant because a new commissioner is appointed.
    They are squirming in the quicksand and don’t have the sense to stop wriggling.
    It is exquisite to watch.
  13. Honesty
    #1122974, posted on December 24, 2013 at 6:10 pm
    Spiders and snakes in this cupboard. At first blush it would seem that it’s best to simply axe it however I feel the strategy is to open multiple fronts on these gesture institutions that the lefties have strong conviction for so that they don’t have the resources to fight the big fights at full strength. The squealing on all these fronts will drive public opinion against them. We can only hope.
  14. Talleyrand
    #1122975, posted on December 24, 2013 at 6:11 pm
    Just in case Triggs & Co are having problems balancing their budgets, I suggest they look at the cost incurred on their recent Human Rights Award Night at the Museum of Contemporary Art at Circular Quay.
    Not a Human Rights Commission but a(nother) Rent-Seeking Commission pretending to do good.
  15. Mindfree
    #1122978, posted on December 24, 2013 at 6:14 pm
    I’m hoping the LT strategy is to show it for what it is, a cesspool of budget waste being hoovered by self appointed moral Kommissars that when threatened with their self importance possibly being torn down turn into the brazen cowards they are and run like rats from the sinking ship. (not that I think Tim will exert much influence though he may give it a shake)
    Then Brandis has plenty of ammunition to shut it down and send the likes of Trigg, Broderick, Southman and the rest of the scum back to the uni lecturer dust bin – if he’s got the balls
  16. Samuel J
    #1122983, posted on December 24, 2013 at 6:19 pm
    In his first outing as Human Rights Commissioner, Tim Wilson announced that the IPA has been awarded the Human Rights Medal and a separate medal to Chris Berg.
  17. Mindfree
    #1122985, posted on December 24, 2013 at 6:22 pm
    Samuel,
    That’s a poke in the eye for Triggs and her ilk, but that’s only going to get them angry.
    Having said that, it might be funny watching what happens next. Get Tim to take and publish the pics
  18. Mindfree
    #1122992, posted on December 24, 2013 at 6:26 pm
    Samuel
    Cannot see any announcement of that on the IPA web site!
  19. duncanm
    #1122995, posted on December 24, 2013 at 6:26 pm
    Brandis makes a good point regarding remuneration.. I suspect he’s hinting at the obscene pay rises at the top of the organisation:
    2012: 6 x $270k packages
    2013: 2 x $343k (+27%), 4 x $303k (+12%)
    Total senior exec remuneration went from $2.2M (9 staff) to $2.7M (11 staff).
  20. wreckage
    #1122999, posted on December 24, 2013 at 6:28 pm
    “CONSERVATIVE”. The guy is openly gay, and STILL a bogeyman to these people.
    They’re absurd.
    Shutdown scenario: take the $20 million+ of pure waste and spend it all expediting refugee claims. Instant material improvement in human rights, something the Commission has not achieved with $20 million annually.
  21. johanna
    #1123022, posted on December 24, 2013 at 6:39 pm
    It’s certainly been entertaining and instructive to watch Triggs and her “team” in action. As I said on the previous thread on this topic, when Labor appointed Tim Somethingorother as a Commissioner in the middle of a budget cycle, they were like a dog with two tails. But suddenly, this appointment is going to promote schoolyard bullying. Give me a break.
    Their dumb and amateurish tactics will help to seal their fate – if there were any wets in the Coalition who believed in their bona fides, surely this is all the evidence they need about the HRC’s toxic political agenda. I doubt if there are Coalition voters above single figures there – which is hardly representative of the electorate.
    While they spend a lot of time and our money looking for outrages to correct, they are strangely mute on the rights of Muslim girls and women living in Australia, who (in some sub-cultures) are regarded as roughly the same as goats on the family farm.
  22. Brett_McS
    #1123030, posted on December 24, 2013 at 6:45 pm
    The AHRC sounds like the worst HR department imaginable, magnified to the Nth degree. If they are really looking for cases of work-place bullying and the creation of toxic work environments they won’t be needing any of those air miles they’ve racked up to find it.
  23. blogstrop
    #1123065, posted on December 24, 2013 at 7:03 pm
    Triggs reveals herself to be a political animal, and not in a good way. I’d hazard a guess she has lots of like-minded colleagues at the redundant commission. Scrap it altogether. The Wilson exercise has shown it to be a sham outfit.
  24. cohenite
    #1123081, posted on December 24, 2013 at 7:17 pm
    Shutdown scenario: take the $20 million+ of pure waste and spend it all expediting refugee claims.
    Excellent. Wedge the pricks until they’re drowning in their own hypocrisy.
  25. Mindfree
    #1123132, posted on December 24, 2013 at 7:41 pm
    Yeah, good idea Wreckage – in fact I hope they audit Triggs to see how much is spent on THEIR human rights. Then publish the findings and set up a commission to have Triggs answer
  26. Mindfree
    #1123139, posted on December 24, 2013 at 7:46 pm
    Yes, taxpayer funded commission but I would welcome that just to see that bitch hung by the you-know-whats until she is politically dead and gone – No mercy!
    But then its Christmas and I’m being nice about it
  27. Bob
    #1123145, posted on December 24, 2013 at 7:51 pm
    Maybe Tim could push for: “With Rights Come Responsibilities” to be embossed on the HRC ‘s stationery and business cards.
  28. Tardell G
    #1123147, posted on December 24, 2013 at 7:52 pm
    Shut it down.
    They’re called “Public Serpents” for a reason.
  29. R.B.
    #1123158, posted on December 24, 2013 at 8:02 pm
    Free speech you say.
    R.B.
    #1122739, posted on December 24, 2013 at 2:53 pm
    Tim Wilson, defender of free speech, rides the HRC gravy train.
    Tim Wilson of the right wing thinktank the IPA waffles on our free speech. The IPA would have
    the HRC closed in an instant if they had their way.
    Meanwhile, at a kneesup at the IPA earlier this year he and another defender of abuse and
    defamation, Andrew Bolt lionise the wealthiest person in Australia Gina Rinehart.
    At the time Rinehart was pursuing legal action against two journalists , Steve Pennells and Adele Ferguson
    to force them to reveal confidential sources of information involved in the ugly spat with her children.
    Ask any journo if this is an abuse of free speech.
    Hypocrisy shown by right wing defenders of ” free speech” is breathtaking in this instance
  30. .
    #1123160, posted on December 24, 2013 at 8:07 pm
    R.B is another lunatic that thinks free speech means state controlled speech.
    Don’t worry folks, most people would ignore them as they rant delusionally at various train stations begging for spare change.
  31. cohenite
    #1123176, posted on December 24, 2013 at 8:26 pm
    Hypocrisy shown by right wing defenders of ” free speech” is breathtaking in this instance
    How so?
  32. Mindfree
    #1123182, posted on December 24, 2013 at 8:33 pm
    RB Bwahahahahaha – you are a parody right?
  33. wreckage
    #1123188, posted on December 24, 2013 at 8:42 pm
    Tim Wilson, defender of free speech, rides the HRC gravy train.
    Irrelevant to free speech, yet couched as though a juxtaposition. Fail.
    Tim Wilson of the right wing thinktank the IPA waffles on our free speech.
    He didn’t, and nor have the IPA; in fact they repeatedly raised the issue when the HRC did not.
    The IPA would have
    the HRC closed in an instant if they had their way.
    So? You’d have Abbott voted out. YOU HATE DEMOCRACY. Non-sequitur, deadbeat.
    Meanwhile, at a kneesup at the IPA earlier this year he and another defender of abuse and
    defamation, Andrew Bolt lionise the wealthiest person in Australia Gina Rinehart.
    Relevance to free speech? You might note we have laws on defamation. Andrew Bolt, JOURNALIST, broke none of them.
    the wealthiest person in Australia Gina Rinehart.
    Clearly a villain!
    At the time Rinehart was pursuing legal action against two journalists , Steve Pennells and Adele Ferguson
    You lauded legal action against Journalist Bolt, but now action against Journalists is a threat to freedom.
    to force them to reveal confidential sources of information involved in the ugly spat with her children.
    Ask any journo if this is an abuse of free speech.
    It’s a contest of a specific journalistic privilege. It is not a matter of free speech or even of individual rights; this rule protects a privilege that journalists have but everyone else doesn’t.
    Hypocrisy shown by right wing defenders of ” free speech” is breathtaking in this instance
    It might be, but we can’t tell, since you haven’t actually cited any examples.
  34. wreckage
    #1123189, posted on December 24, 2013 at 8:44 pm
    Every sentence a floating turd, RB. There are septic tanks that are smarter than you.
  35. Mindfree
    #1123201, posted on December 24, 2013 at 8:59 pm
    Wreckage – great takedown but I think RB may be our own Doomlord taking the piss for Xmas.
    Nice try Sinclair but you gave it away on the “right-wing think tank” bit
  36. RCon
    #1123217, posted on December 24, 2013 at 9:42 pm
    Surprising bio at bottom of SMH article, referred to IPA as a libertarian Think tank. Mighty generous.
    Mr Wilson, who was a director at libertarian think-tank, the Institute of Public Affairs, is due to take up his position on the Human Rights Commission in February. The IPA has called for the abolition of the commission.
  37. Token
    #1123242, posted on December 24, 2013 at 10:22 pm
    I notice leftard turds across a number of sources e.g. Mumbles is naming individuals as Libertarians then demonising them via strawman arguments.
    Seems the left is really scared of the threat.
  38. JohnA
    #1123278, posted on December 24, 2013 at 11:36 pm
    Some shindig!
    ‘TV personality Craig Reucassel, from The Chaser, will host the annual Human Rights Awards, “so expect a little irreverence”, said the rights lobby’s promotional blurb.’
    I wonder if his irreverence extended to offending someone’s rights? Could the offendee make a complaint to the HRC about behaviour of the MC at the HRC event?
    Iolanthe – The Lord Chancellor: Ah, my Lords, it is indeed painful to have to sit upon a woolsack which is stuffed with such thorns as these!
    And is President Trigg paid somewhat more than His Honour, the Lord Chancellor?
  39. wreckage
    #1123280, posted on December 24, 2013 at 11:40 pm
    If Tim can’t be on the HRC because the IPA has called for its abolition, does that mean that Marxists aren’t allowed to shop, and AGW catastrophists aren’t allowed to vote?
    This is looking like a very promising line of thought. I am definitely going to identify as Libertarian, because presumably I will then be able to own a gun and smoke pot, but not sit on government committees. Which would actually be pretty fun if one was high as a kite and heavily armed.
  40. SteveC
    #1123284, posted on December 24, 2013 at 11:47 pm
    Is it inaccurate to call these people bottom feeding scum?
    Are you including Tim in that?
    Here’s an idea, add 75 commmisioners at 300k each, don’t add any budget for salary. Whole budget is used up on salary. HRC can’t do anything at all.
  41. SteveC
    #1123292, posted on December 24, 2013 at 11:50 pm
    Merry Christmas everyone, here’s a present I picked especially for you:
    Dear Tim Wilson,
    I’m sure you’re a huge fan of Open Letters, what with your passion for free speech. I am also a fan of free speech within the bounds of reasonable conduct, and so today I’m using my free speech to write you this letter.
    I’m also a fan of getting to the point quickly so I’ll put it out there right up front. I think you’re a dickhead. Unlike lots of other people who also think you’re a dickhead, I haven’t come to this conclusion recently, or after the announcement that you’ve been parachuted into perhaps the most oxy-moronic position your buddies in the Abbott government could have handpicked for you. No, I noticed you a long time ago as the boy playing in a man’s world, as you did your best but failed not to blush from the neck up while yelling at climate scientists in a field of scientific endeavour you know nothing about.
  42. wreckage
    #1123297, posted on December 24, 2013 at 11:57 pm
    climate scientists in a field of scientific endeavour you know nothing about.
    Yep, if he was wrong about something he knows nothing about, then he’s also wrong about something he’s spent many years well into.
    And, since you called him a dickhead on that spurious basis, and we’ve established that anyone who does so is wrong about everything, you yourself are wrong about everything.
    Suits me.
  43. SteveC
    #1123298, posted on December 24, 2013 at 11:59 pm
    wreckage, it was just a present for you. You should read it, it’s great fun. Assuming you’ve nothing else to amuse you on Christmas Eve. And have another egg nog, it will help your logic.
    Merry Christmas.
  44. wreckage
    #1123301, posted on December 25, 2013 at 12:00 am
    No, I noticed you a long time ago as the boy playing in a man’s world, as you did your best but failed not to blush from the neck up while yelling at climate scientists
    That is the most bizarre combination of hypersensitive pweepiness and weirdly specific anger I have read in some time. Add the alluded-to grudge into the mix and I wonder about the writer’s mental health.
  45. wreckage
    #1123302, posted on December 25, 2013 at 12:02 am
    wreckage, it was just a present for you. You should read it, it’s great fun. Assuming you’ve nothing else to amuse you on Christmas Eve. And have another egg nog, it will help your logic.
    Eh, it’s Christmas. You should try laying off the tragically obvious passive-aggressive slyness, in honour of our Lord and Saviour.
  46. wreckage
    #1123305, posted on December 25, 2013 at 12:03 am
    Unless you’re on the turps already, in which case you can be forgiven. Have a Merry Christmas anyway! Hope you get actual presents.
  47. SteveC
    #1123308, posted on December 25, 2013 at 12:05 am
    not my lord and saviour wreckage, but Merry Christmas anyway.
  48. wreckage
    #1123309, posted on December 25, 2013 at 12:07 am
    Well I was going for a bit of irony, but winks don’t translate to text well. Have a good one!
  49. SteveC
    #1123319, posted on December 25, 2013 at 12:16 am
    Cheers wreckage. I’m not usually up this late, but it’s the annaul Christmas present wrapping saga. And my youngest is 16! Aaargh!! Hope you have a good day tomorrow.
  50. wreckage
    #1123327, posted on December 25, 2013 at 12:36 am
    16! Commiserations and congratulations!
  51. dd
    #1123597, posted on December 25, 2013 at 10:20 am
    The threat to close the ‘bullying’ program – aside from being highly ironic – is amateur hour in terms of political spin. It’s transparent, illogical and implausible.
    As an aside I am skeptical of the usefulness of ‘programs’ like these to solve social problems. Bullying is a serious issue – it amounts to systematic abuse of minors – and as such should have a proper regulatory or legislative solution; not pamphlets.

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