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Shadow attorney-general George Brandis has questioned the decision to award a Human Rights Medal to a lawyer who ran a race discrimination case against newspaper columnist Andrew Bolt.
Senator Brandis has told Senate Estimates he was disappointed Ron Merkel QC was awarded the 2011 prize, partly in recognition for his role in the court case.
Mr Merkel was lead counsel representing nine Aboriginal people who successfully argued Bolt breached the Racial Discrimination Act in two articles published in 2009.
Senator Brandis says he was alarmed by the commission's choice.
Brandis should be aware that Ron Merkel QC can be hired — like any QC — by whatever litigants — and win or loose according to judgement. Whether he was successful in representing Aboriginal people against Bolt has no bearing on the price of fish. To see Brandis, tooted as the Libs' (conservatives) choice for Attorney General, lambast Ron Merkel (a fine QC) shows that he's got no sense of the laws and its processes in this land.
Brandis shows great stupidity in this attack — a stupidity that a first year law student would not be allowed to have should he/she wishes to proceed to year two...
- By Gus Leonisky at 14 Feb 2012 - 3:22pm
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and a drover's dog with a wig...
A "competent junior solicitor" could draw up documents which would have Labor's problem MP Craig Thomson in court before the end of the year, the Opposition is insisting today.
There is renewed pressure on Fair Work Australia to convert its 1100-page report on the Health Services Union into a brief of evidence which could be used to lay charges against senior union figures.
Mr Thomson, a former HSU national secretary, believes he was named in the report which is still confidential, despite Opposition demands it be made public.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national/thomson-report-could-easily-lead-to-prosecution-says-george-brandis/story-e6frfkvr-1226319565110#ixzz1r8C0h0D8
Brandis still has no clue on how the law works... and he still is the shadow attorney general... Liberal idiots..