Australian Human Rights Bill

There is a minority of people who believe Australia should have a Human Rights Bill. We don't. Australia has a plethora of acts of Parliament that provide for our rights and in some cases, our responsibilities.

Every time the Australian Government enacts social engineering legislation, it shoots itself in the foot. For example, the Native Title Act and the Aboriginal Land Rights Act have resulted in the lock out of millions of hectares of land that cannot now be used for housing development. In many places, house prices and rents have gone through the roof because there is no land available for development.

As a result of the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, the Australian Government has purchased dozens of functional, profit-generating cattle stations and turned them over to indigenous groups. In nearly all cases, the cattle died through neglect and the land now lies unused and unprofitable with the inhabitants still a drain on the welfare system.

You can bet your life that if we introduce an unwanted Human Rights Bill, there will be unforseen negative consequences.

At the end of the day, the only rights any of us have are those our society wishes to allow us. Australians live in a free, democratic society and there are many other things we could focus our attention on than an unnecessary Bill of Rights.