Human rights act for Australia not needed

May 18, 2026

I am totally opposed to a human rights act for Australia. Human rights do not come from a piece of paper written by lawyers and interpreted by the courts. They come from instituting better welfare provision. Such as a UBI universal basic income and the building of public housing. Abolishing work for the dole the job network. Expanding the NDIS and taking it away from private hands making all of its employees federal public servants. Stopping the privitisation of government services.

I figure the legal profession as it is presently constituted is slanted towards the protection and preservation of private property and the maintenance of the status quo. It is hardly a profession that the Australian people therefore should trust to protect their human rights. It is in fact a contradictory proposition to hand over your human rights to legal eagles, when these very same legal eagles are in the business of protecting private property rights.

The point is that all of us are interrelated. When others prosper we do too. It’s in the DNA of the ideology of socialism. And none of the above ingredients is in the DNA of the legal profession.