As Balls Radio shows, there wasn't a lot of time for her to put her report together before a change in government. In fact, if she had started the report in her first month in office then it would have been released just a few months ahead of the election. The Labor party could have argued that was partisan politics. As it was, she is on record for heavily criticising the previous government during her first year in her job as President of the Human Rights Commission. At the time the focus of Liberal criticism was her lack of focus on freedom of speech, something they clearly saw as a bigger issue than the rights of asylum seeking children held in detention.

Now she is under attack from the Attorney General and Prime Minister - not to mention the likes of Piers Ackerman, who recently showed just how low he could go by bringing up how she adopted her out her chronically disabled child. Surely nobody can defend the personal vitriol directed at this woman?

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