tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post4152134704813075609..comments2024-03-29T18:03:45.643+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which Dame Slap returns from her land of the maple syrup hols to berate the Canuckians ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-18116556565898190122020-02-03T17:02:18.259+11:002020-02-03T17:02:18.259+11:00Just to give Dame Slap full credit, Merc, here'...Just to give Dame Slap full credit, Merc, here's a short extract from wikipedia about her career:<br />"<i>Albrechtsen moved to Sydney to work as a commercial solicitor at Freehills and taught at the University of Sydney Law School. Since turning to commentary, Albrechtsen has written for the Australian Financial Review, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sunday Age, Quadrant, <b>Canada's National Post, The Vancouver Sun, The Wall Street Journal and The Wall Street Journal Asia</b>. She regularly appears on television and radio.<br /><br />Albrechtsen was a member of the Foreign Affairs Council from 2003 until 2007</i>."<br /><br />Note particularly the Canadian involvement.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-15878929724035041692020-02-03T10:44:16.346+11:002020-02-03T10:44:16.346+11:00Poor, poor Dame Slap. She's come back from he...Poor, poor Dame Slap. She's come back from her hols in a foul mood. <br /><br />I kind of like the idea of this little black duck's will being led by judges. I'd sooner trust my future to an unelected judge than a politician - any day. And since when is a law ineffective just because it has never been used? You call that proof?<br /><br />Dame Slap is qualified and used to practise as a lawyer, right? Seems to me some 'activist' judge must have ticked her off something bad early in her career. She sure does bear a deep hatred of, and animosity towards, the judiciary.Mercurialhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08531202189169082683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-29847330284883931882020-02-03T03:34:52.826+11:002020-02-03T03:34:52.826+11:00Quite a rant by Dame Slap. Nothing at all unusual...Quite a rant by Dame Slap. Nothing at all unusual about that, of course, but it seems that we all fall at "<i>the most fundamental hurdle: the one about who should make laws in a democracy</i>."<br /><br />Truly a vexed question, isn't it. As Dame Slap so innocuously puts it: "<i>Should it be the Australian people ? Or a handful of judges empowered by a bill or a charter of rights and egged on by lawyers in search of work and other impatient activists </i>?"<br /><br />Now I have to say that I've lived in this "democracy" all my life and I've never even come close to making a law. Have you ? But then we get to the true nub, the part that's really got her going: "<i>These people weren't free-speech fans when it came to repealing section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act</i>."<br /><br />So there we have it, just another item in the wingnut catechism of Things To Endlessly Carry On About And Blame The Left For.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.com