Bear in mind that in jurisdictions which have real Bills of Rights, if it is found your rights have been breached, court injunctions will immediately remedy it. In contrast we have the ACT’s piss weak bill of rights which is all about embuggering the population without constraining the power of our executive government because they wouldn’t like it.
So first we have a media release from Katy Gallagher about the breaches of human rights at the ACT youth detention facility Quamby. It was followed by another effort promising to build a better facility sometime in the future.
Liberal heart-throb Zed Seselja has weighed into the decate with a media release questioning the government’s committment to it’s own laws when they become inconvenient.
Hey, it’s only kids…