Gillian Triggs steps in from the cold The end of her period as...

Gillian Triggs steps in from the cold

The end of her period as outcast is significant, not least because it reflects the end of the ascendancy of ideology over civility

The big chill is over. Its end was sealed over a cup of tea, poured by Malcolm Turnbull from his bright red teapot in his Parliament House office, for Gillian Triggs, the woman his predecessor had vilified, tried to remove and finally banished.

Hostilities began in January, when Triggs' Human Rights Commission produced a report that condemned the detention of asylum seeker children under the policies of the Abbott and Rudd-Gillard-Rudd governments as a clear violation of international law.
The challenge to those who believe there is a better way across the policy spectrum is clear: mount a compelling argument and, at the very least, you will be heard.
After sitting on the The Forgotten Children report until the last possible moment, senior Abbott government ministers dismissed the evidence gathered over eight months as "out of date" and partisan – and they turned on the messenger.


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Malcolm Turnbull contradicts Tony Abbott on Gillian Triggs strategy

Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has directly contradicted Prime Minister Tony Abbott's scathing critique of Australian Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs, heaping praise on the embattled professor and stressing the importance of getting children out of detention.
The issue is not Gillian Triggs, or personalities, or arguments about the Human Rights Commission, the issue is the children
In question time on Tuesday, Mr Abbott said the government had lost confidence in Professor Triggs, declaring her report on children in detention a "stitch up".


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