Mrs Triggs said “Many laws introduced with unseemly haste before Christmas in the name of national security go well beyond what might be deemed to necessary, creating a chilling effect on freedom of speech and the press and breaching the right to privacy.”
“The debate, it seems, is between the subjective suspicions of a minister, versus an evidence-based determination by a judge according to established rule of law.”
“Magna Carta has something to say about this: it provided that no man is to be ‘outlawed or exiled’ except by the law of the land.”
Should it be surprising the push to get rid of this woman and we pray that the people of Australia are concerned and listening but I suspect they are for the most part asleep and being hypnotized by the media.
She said it was “probable” these laws and the National Security Legislation would have a “chilling effect on legitimate public debate about security operations”.
Ms Triggs said Australia’s Constitution protected the freedom of religion, the right to compensation for the acquisition of property and the right to vote, and implied a right of political communication, but very little more.
“As is well known, unlike every other common law country in the world, Australia has no Bill of Rights.” From the Australian Newspaper 15-6-15 Triggs has refused to resign though under protracted personal attack arguing the body would be undermined if she succumbed …
Australia is in a very vulnerable position with Jesuits both in the Liberal and Labor party being in opposing parties but working together. The effect will not only be on freedom of speech, truth being reported but on jobs and the economy and a future. People who do not act by integrity and right principals should not by vote of the people be placed in positions of trust. Their influence corrupts others, and grave responsibilities are involved. ‘Of those in these positions of trust depends life and liberty, or bondage and despair. How necessary that all who take part in these transactions should be those who are proved, those of self-culture, those of honesty and truth, of staunch integrity, who will spurn a bribe, who will not allow their judgment or convictions of right to be swerved by partiality or prejudice.’