By: Lynne Newington

Lynne Newington — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:00:22 +0000

The Australian Human Rights Commission [formerly known as the Human Rights and Equal Rights and Opportunity Commission] was first established in 1986,.
We became signatory to The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1991.
We need to have someone elected who fully understands the full measure of what the role entails, as our record on the homefront has been left wanting otherwise this Royal Commission into abuse of Australian children in particular, would never have been necessary.
The exemptions for religious bodies in the act [Religious Discrimination[, needs upgrading to, as it stands, put simply, “a religious body is permitted do whatever conforms with it’s doctrine, or are necessary to avoid injuring the religious feelings of the members of it’s faith.
Depending on the particular iinstitution and it’s dicipline, there are many fathers and children, deprived of their rights according to not only Australian law, but international law.

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By: Lynne Newington