What About The Children?

[the_great_she_elephant]

I am amazed and disgusted that in all the indignation over what Gillian Triggs should or shouldn't have done or who said or didn't say what to her, not ONE SINGLE POLITICIAN  except, finally, Malcolm Turnbull, has commented in any way on the contents of her report..

She found that  over a 15-month period from January 2013 to March 2014, spanning both the Labor and Coalition governments  there were 233 recorded assaults involving children and 33 incidents of reported sexual assault. 

If these findings are true - and as far as I know nobody has so far disputed them -   then what is going to be done about it? Who had the duty of care? who is going to be held responsible. What measures are going to be put in place to stop this abuse happening in future?

Both Gillian Triggs and George Brandis are astute and comparitively wealthy adults able to instruct top  legal practitioners to protect their reputaions - but who is going to protect the safety of these children? How many more children have been abused since March 2014? Is a child perhaps being abused in a detention centre  even while you are reading this post? 

Surely to goodness after all that was learned from the Children In Care Royal Commission this report cannot simply be put in a "don't want to know" basket while both sides of Pariament try to gain political mileage out the motives of the Human Rghts Commissioner or the behaviour of the Attourney General.

At some point -though probably not in the lifetime of this government  or even  the one that follows it - there will inevitably be a Royal Commission into the treatment of children in detention centre. what do you imagine its findings are likely to be?

[gleee58]

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

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@vicr3000 wrote:

To use your words, Prove it.

Have a nice day

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She has criticized ALP as much as LNP, it is just that ALP is in the past and not responsible for what is going on now.  It is the LNP who need to act.  Your problem is that you just parrot Bolt, Piers and Jones, without actually knowing what is the truth.

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I'm waiting for a link to when she supposedly recommended, or suggested, that Howard should be tried for war crimes.  She is far more careful with her words than to say anything of the sort, imo.

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@idlewhile wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

Well...Gillian Triggs herself put her own severely disabled child into foster care because she felt she should focus on her abled children.

So...

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This poor excuse for a human being has no credibility, her actions damn her and her bias is rampant.

She is doing what the left has always done, use children for politcal purposes and she is being exposed for it.

The left are exposed for their support of her and its patently obvious why.

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Did Professor Trigg lie when she said children had been abused in detention centres?

Did she lie when she said she was offered a prestigious position if she resigned as President of the HRC

Did Mr Moraitis lie when he said he put the offer to her?

Did  he lie when he agreed that her accepting the offer would have to have been contingent on her resigning from her current one?

Did  Tony Abbott lie when he stood up in Parliament and stated categorically that no inducement had been made to Professor Trigg.?

If the PM was not lying, Then did Senator Brandis fail to tell him that he had instructed his secretary to make that offer?

[vicr3000]

Talking of abuse.

Knox
Catholic church and others
The Jewish Community

Society was very sick.

I'll say one thing, the jews are chopping heads off pretty quickly.

[j*oono]

Senate expresses confidence in Gillian Triggs and Human Rights Commission

[debra9275]

I don't think it's true that they acted quickly Vic. The recent case, it was a grown man who was molested as a child. His whole family were harassed by the Jewish community here for speaking out, and they had to leave Australia.

[*pepe]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

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@poddster wrote:

I reiterate

ele if you had the means to protect one of 2 children and one of them happens to be a family member, wouldnt you protect that one?

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I may only have one heart, Poddy, but I have two arms.

And if you think that's a silly answer then take a long hard look at the question, because it's the best answer it deserves.

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Well Ms Triggs had the right instincts.

Gave her profoundly disabled daughter into foster care in order to focus on her abled children.

And her career, no doubt.

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how utterly judgemental and ignorant of you.

unless you are in her head you have no clue of her motives.

often people are incapable of giving a child what they deserve and need so make the heart wrenching decision to give them up to those better equipped.

And IF she did give her up so she could focus on her career then that is probably better for the child than being where she may possiby have been resented.

[vicr3000]

Deb
Yes, you are correct. I meant since it as come out a second time or this time, things have happened. It still doesn't excuse what occurred in the past.

[the_great_she_elephant]

From your link,Joono:

• Acknowledges that allegations of abuse outlined in the report have been referred to police

!!! YAY !!!

[vicr3000]

Which Police ?

Australia has no jurisdiction on the islands.

[monman12]

Did she lie when she said that there were armed guards at the Christmas Island detention Centre?

Why did she delay an inquiry into child detention until after the 2013 election.?

"Triggs says she decided to wait until after the 2013 election............"

Why did she speak during the caretaker period, quite inappropriately, with two Labor ministers, a fact concealed from the then-opposition ?

TGSE:   "Did she lie when she said she was offered a prestigious position if she resigned as President of the HRC"

How would anyone know?  when she declared at the Senate hearing:

"I don't recall the precise words but I know that he said that I would be offered other work with the Government."

Did the previous  human rights commissioner, Sev Ozdowski,  lie when he said that he found the timing of last year's inquiry "odd"?

Forget all the partisan nonsense and sand flinging, the children now out with the bath-water  and the sisterhood defence,   as soon as  Triggs said she decided to wait until after the 2013 election she politicised the HRC.