Professor Triggs revealed this morning during a Senate estimates hearing that the secretary of Attorney-General George Brandis's department had asked her to resign during a meeting on February 3.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott doesn’t have to do one single thing to wrap up the HRC, Triggs all by herself has managed to destroy the whole show.
Triggs, who came back to the Senate this morning to explain and clear up the **bleep** from her last appearance managed to sink herself further into the pit. Triggs has just managed to make Gillard look like a saint.
The most disturbing factor in this circus is the... Greens and Labor are defending her with all their might.
Until now Triggs has claimed she already had “serious concerns” about the children by August of 2012, the year Labor made her the commission’s president, and by February 2013 had decided to hold her inquiry, yet waited another year before announcing it because it would have been “very dangerous politically” to have held the inquiry during the 2013 election campaign. She also noted that it was a decade since the previous inquiry into children in detention:
But today, called back before a Senate estimates committee to clear up, among other things, her conflicting answers at her previous appearance and address documents requested from her, she now claims she didn’t formally decide hold an inquiry until December 2013.
Triggs must have been happy with the boats coming and children in detention. What a nice little UN person she is, Triggs needs to be sacked and most definitely not offered a job in any government department, she has to go.
