PRIME Minister Scott Morrison’s harsh rebuke of a self-serving United Nations bureaucracy should serve as a lesson for Australia’s hostile public sector.
Mr Morrison this week reminded the UN it worked for its members and not for its own “processes, institutions and officials”.
“The UN is its members, not its committees, processes, institutions or officials,” the Prime Minister said during a speech delivered from Sydney on the weekend.
PERSECUTING
He said he was committed to ensuring the UN institutions were “open and transparent and, most importantly, that they are accountable to the sovereign states that form them”.
Mr Morrison’s sentiments followed hot on the heels of senior Australian politicians who have slammed “unelected” bureaucrats in Australia for “persecuting” the very citizens they are tasked with serving.
In a blistering statement last week, Federal Tasmanian Senator Claire Chandler claimed Australian bureaucrats were engaged in an effort to shut down free speech so to push their own extremist public policy.
Ms Chandler has been referred to Tasmania’s Equal Opportunity Commission after stating that women’s sport, women’s toilets and women’s changing rooms were designed for people of the female gender and should remain that way.
She also recently addressed the Australian Senate in favour of World Rugby’s effort to exclude transgender players from women’s rugby for safety reasons.
“I’m certainly not going to be backing down from my views,” she said. “It’s deeply concerning in terms of the effects that this intimidation is going to have on free speech in this country,” Senator Chandler said.
“Going back even a couple of years, my views would not have been remarkable nor controversial at all.”
Weeks earlier NSW Government Whip Natasha Mclaren-Jones tore strips off the Australian Human Rights Commission – accusing it of “weaponising” against citizens who hold differing views.
BROWBEATEN
In a scathing parliamentary speech, she blamed a serious lack of oversight for allowing the HR Commission, among other government agencies, to punish “wrong-thinking” citizens.
“It is unconscionable for a country like Australia to allow agencies inside of government to be turned into a weapon,” Ms Maclaren-Jones told the NSW Parliament.
“The problem we now have is that in some instances it is being used as a weapon of choice against Australia’s own citizens who may have a different point of view from ‘permanently outraged’ activists,” she said.
Ms Maclaren-Jones said because the Commission was a statutory office with its commissioner holding tenor, there was little accountability of its activities.
“Every-day Australians – out of fear – are now being browbeaten into concealing their opinions.”
During his 15-minute UN speech Mr Morrison said Australia was one of only eight countries involved in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
HUMAN RIGHTS
“We’re proud of that role,” he said
“And today, we’re serving as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council. We’re the first country from the Pacific region to serve on that body.
“We’re pleased to have served but I’m proud that we’ve raised our voice and been heard on important issues like the rights of women and girls, the rights of Indigenous peoples, and the global abolition of the death penalty.”
The Prime Minister’s message clearly needs to be re-delivered loudly, bluntly and unapologetically to public sector activists who are hijacking Australian human rights.PC
Good to see Sco Mo speaking up against communist public servants. These people are like a cancer, sapping money and seeking power and control, it is important for people to know. The mainstream media cuddles up to and protects these people, UN is the most obvious example.