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- Title
Political Appointments: Downgrading the Australian Human Rights Commission.
- Authors
Kampmark, Binoy
- Abstract
Those generic statements about certain countries and their human rights records have suddenly disappeared - at least regarding those selected autocratic states Prime Minister Scott Morrison is so keen to condemn. With all the hollering and scolding of Russian barbarity in Ukraine and Chinese viciousness against the Uighur populace, one could be forgiven for thinking that Australia's politicians were presiding from the summit of human rights superiority. The reason: seemingly political appointments, without a rigorous selection process, of Ben Gauntlett to the position of Disability Discrimination Commissioner in 2019 and Lorraine Finlay to the position of Human Rights Commissioner last year.
- Subjects
APPOINTMENT to public office; HUMAN rights; REFUGEE resettlement; CAST-iron; DISCRIMINATION against people with disabilities
- Publication
CounterPunch, 2022, p1
- ISSN
1086-2323
- Publication type
Article