I have become an insomniac after the birth of my kids. Like my mother and my pop before me, I am now plugged into a little radio beside my bed, swapping between late night talk back radio. Thank God for Trevor Chapel.
So it was 4am-ish, sometime in June, when I woke to an early morning repeat of Radio National's law report featuring an entire program of reasoned argument about why a bill of rights was not a good thing for Australia. The program was obviously timed to coincide with the closing date of submissions to the consultation. An anti-rights book was being launched by Major Peter Cosgrove with fanfare and praise. As I listened to argument after argument I became irritated.
Irked, not because of the quality of the arguments from the oppositionl, but because of the lack of any media from the pro-human rights lobby. Where had the Australian Human Rights Group gone? Where was the campaign? Time for a wake up call.
You can check out my wake up call to the pro-rights lobby at New Matilda here:
http://newmatilda.com/2009/07/02/dont-let-them-kill-bill
You can read Janet Albrechtsen's shameless exhumation of my article for her own ends here:
http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/janetalbrechtsen/index.php/theaustralian/comments/contempt_for_democratic_process/
Being both the left and the right's punching bag on this issue makes me think I may have said something useful for once.
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