{"id":12890,"date":"2021-09-10T00:03:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T00:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=12890"},"modified":"2021-09-10T00:03:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T00:03:55","slug":"a-human-rights-commissioner-should-care-about-human-rights-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/09\/10\/a-human-rights-commissioner-should-care-about-human-rights-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Human Rights Commissioner should care about human rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lorraine Finlay had been appointed as the nation&#8217;s new Human Rights Commissioner. Formerly an upper house candidate for the West Australian Liberals and president of the state\u2019s Liberal women\u2019s<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>council, Finlay was appointed to the role without it being advertised.<br \/>\nThis could affect the Australian Human Rights Council\u2019s \u201cA status\u201d with the United Nations.<br \/>\n<strong>Senator Lidia Thorpe, The Greens Justice and First Nations Spokesperson said:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u201c<\/strong>Lorraine Finlay\u2019s appointment flies in the face of the United Nations Paris Principles, which require \u2018a<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>clear, transparent and participatory selection and appointment process of commissioners.\u2019<br \/>\n<strong>\u201c<\/strong>The Morrison government should be looking for the candidate with the most in-depth experience and expertise, instead of parachuting their mates who are clearly inappropriate for the role. If Finlay has any integrity, she should decline and step down.<br \/>\n&#8220;This is someone who wrote a book calling for Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act to be abolished, opposes gender-based quotas and called affirmative consent laws \u2018dangerous\u2019 in an interview with men\u2019s rights activist Bettina Arndt.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Morrison government announced this on the same day that the Women\u2019s Safety Summit began. So often, violence against women is the result of an abuse of power. This appointment is an abuse of power.<br \/>\n&#8220;People in this country deserve an independent, objective Human Rights Commissioner who won\u2019t play party politics with people&#8217;s rights!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorraine Finlay had been appointed as the nation&#8217;s new Human Rights Commissioner. Formerly an upper house candidate for the West Australian Liberals and president of the state\u2019s Liberal women\u2019s\u00a0council, Finlay was appointed to the role without it being advertised. This could affect the Australian Human Rights Council\u2019s \u201cA status\u201d with the United Nations. Senator Lidia &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/09\/10\/a-human-rights-commissioner-should-care-about-human-rights-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Human Rights Commissioner should care about human rights&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}