Tim Wilson (Goldstein, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I'm not surprised by their complete indifference to human rights. You may recall that one of the reasons I was appointed as Australia's Human Rights Commissioner was because they didn't appoint one. For years they left the office empty. It was open. It was left for somebody to come along and do the job, but then, of course, the coalition government came in and what did they do? They appointed a Human Rights Commissioner to deal with these issues—

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