We are delighted to learn today that Tim Wilson has just been appointed as the new Human Rights "Freedom" Commissioner!
Tim Wilson is a great friend of taxpayers and a long-standing and fearless advocate for freedom.
This is a great appointment and we look forward to Tim Wilson spearheading the fight to win back our freedoms in his new position!
TVA
Awesome News!
Well Done Tim Wilson!
Now only if the Gov't would now appoint more like minded ppl to the plethora of other gov't sponsored commissions and boards.
Posted by: Account Deleted | December 17, 2013 at 12:12 PM
Let the games begin!
http://www.timwilson.com.au/articles/equality-for-all-couples-wont-destroy-society
Posted by: dB | December 17, 2013 at 12:32 PM
Is this a pay-off to the I.P.A ?
looks like it!
Posted by: Max Oldham | December 17, 2013 at 03:23 PM
So what if it is?
Labor are Jedi Masters of finding jobs for their union pals
Posted by: Andy's RANT! | December 17, 2013 at 03:46 PM
It's not a pay off to anyone. Tim is the perfect person for the job in so many ways. A person who is passionate and informed about everything from free speech to gay rights and has years of experience working in public policy. Bravo to this government for getting something right.
Posted by: John Mc | December 17, 2013 at 04:11 PM
He's always come across as very articulate and reasoned whenever I've seen him on Q&A.
Somehow I suspect Cory was not on the selection panel for this appointment.
Posted by: dB | December 17, 2013 at 05:34 PM
Well said John-you know it is a common sense appointment when the ABC and Fairfax journalists, and the few readers they have left, start hyperventilating on twitter.
According to Bolt, Wilson is a gay person (which I didn't know and doesn't change my high opinion of him if true), so where does this leave all the #uckwits claiming Abbott is a homophobic?
Posted by: kraka | December 17, 2013 at 08:20 PM
Exactly, Bolt has a long list of appointments under Rudd and Gillard that reads like a who's who of leftists.
Posted by: kraka | December 17, 2013 at 08:21 PM
A month is a long time in politics -
http://m.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/pm-tony-abbott-rules-out-giving-sophie-mirabella-a-government-job/story-fni0cx12-1226756465160
Posted by: Arthur Dent | December 17, 2013 at 08:28 PM
This appointment could well be one thing that all MH regulars like. That is an impressive feat, and a credit to Tim's broad appeal.
Posted by: dB | December 17, 2013 at 08:54 PM
Mr Abbott was recently forced to pay back travel expenses he had claimed to attend Mrs Mirabella's 2006 wedding.
That's a bit tough. Of all the weddings those guys attended and claimed as "business expenses", surely attending Sophie's wedding was a genuine business expense.
Posted by: dB | December 17, 2013 at 09:00 PM
I really think that scrapping the Human Rights Commission wold be a very, very good thing. I want to see conservatives in such roles but ultimately the only way to guarantee as much freedom from government as possible is to completely scrap rent seeking and unelected bodies like the HRC.
Posted by: Terry | December 17, 2013 at 09:57 PM
I guess timmy can now offer some guidance and counsel to Lex Wotton about his treatment and gag order. Or does 'free speech' only apply to his buddies?
Posted by: pk | December 19, 2013 at 12:50 PM
He will scrap it from the inside slowly.....
That's why he's been appointed.
Gay rights??
Doesn't believe in it at all except from a classical liberal viewpoint.
His hard right wing stance has upset more moderate liberals.
Posted by: Georgia | December 19, 2013 at 09:59 PM
God would I love to see Cory Bernardi and Tim Wilson debate marriage equality.
GOLD!!
He has a lot of skeletons in his closet and as a gay man you would wonder what has gone on in the past....
Smirk
Posted by: fag hag | December 19, 2013 at 10:15 PM
$300.000
The salary is very high for such a young guy!!
Wow.
Judges get paid less..
Hilarious.
Posted by: patriot | December 19, 2013 at 10:21 PM
Ummm yep and Tim is now a rent seeker isn't he??
Hypocricy rules very well with this government
What a weird appointment
Petros Georgiou would have been a better choice.
Posted by: patriot | December 20, 2013 at 01:33 AM
Petros Georgiou - you must be joker of the year.
$300.00 pa - jealous are you?
What do judges do to make people feel they are protected by the justice system?
Posted by: ibbit | December 20, 2013 at 09:35 AM
Not at all...
Because he's doing it for the money and status really...selfishness resides with that type of capitalist pig...and that's what he is.
He won't do much at all really.
As a free markets person myself he's not worth that much by the idiot public who pay for a fluffy fascist
As a gay man he isn't that attractive either.
Posted by: bourgeois Sydney gal | December 20, 2013 at 10:34 AM
Yuppy brats who think they're God aren't very sexy
Little Timmy has the emotional depth and maturity of that d......head brother of mine at that private school that gives you the shits...you know the racist one where he likes Asian boys only as they look really really hot...
A student politician who hasn't really grown up!!
Go Timmy and best of luck embarrassing yourself along the way
Really.....Uncle Tom gays are kinda cute on a good day!!
Posted by: bourgeois Sydney gal | December 20, 2013 at 10:48 AM
I welcome the royal couple to Australia next year.
It shows what weird creeps our Liberals are when a nice and lovely young couple from the U.k are more down to earth than our little fascists...
Bring on The Monarchy fuck the republic.
We have exreme idiots in our govt.
Posted by: helen | December 20, 2013 at 11:48 AM
He's like a moth to a flame for greedy reasons...
So Tim is articulate on The Drum and great at sound bites doesn't make him fit for this role.
$$$$$300.000 Free market based policies will make this country go back twenty years
Admire the spunk but not the rabid right wing politics.
In it for the wrong reasons.....
Go into the private sector and allow genuine individuals to get the position who can make real change
Posted by: jam | December 20, 2013 at 12:30 PM
Chris Berg should have gotten this gig not this arrogant snot.
He's written a book and done the hard yards.
Furthermore his wife p.h.d thesis deals with ethnic groups and would have been a better adviser relating to racial discrimination.
It's farcical..
Posted by: jam | December 20, 2013 at 01:57 PM
32 years to grow up eh....?
Hilarious.
Posted by: george | December 20, 2013 at 02:49 PM
What has happened? Have all the loony left luvvies been let out of the asylum on the same day.
I'm amazed at the depth of ignorance displayed in comments 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23. Their schoolyard grade insults and drug induced hatred add so much to rational debate, doesn't it?????
I take a little bet that fah hag, patriot, bourgeois, helen and jam are all the same person.
Posted by: Allan | December 20, 2013 at 02:52 PM
Yes Allen...
The same drugs that you guys are on writing this ridiculous blog...
Posted by: hipster libertarian | December 20, 2013 at 04:00 PM
Furthermore. ..I admire Tim immensely
Anyone from the right wing establishment that's not a cricket fan looks good to me!!
X
Posted by: hipster libertarian | December 20, 2013 at 04:06 PM
And thanks Tim for allowing me the freedom to attack that ugly disgusting WOG running Sky News...
FREEDOM
Posted by: hipster libertarian | December 20, 2013 at 04:18 PM
Orwellian existence is what Tim Wilson's world is about.
Strange man with a weird world wide.
George Brandis is the real power hungry creep here.
Good for the moral bankruptcy of this absurd liberal government.
Posted by: hipster libertarian | December 20, 2013 at 05:00 PM
Geez hipster, you don't seem to be bright enough to realise that you are writing on this ridiculous blog.
All the nasty ridiculous comments are coming from you and those mentioned in my last comment. Never mind, we're big enough to make allowances for the mentally deranged.
Posted by: Allan | December 20, 2013 at 05:13 PM
Thanks...
And you're a bunch of bigots....
Merry Xmas.
Posted by: hipster libertarian | December 20, 2013 at 05:35 PM
Just to clarify
A bunch of arsehole idiots to he exact
Freedom is great for the white brigrade and their corrupt comrades
Posted by: hipster libertarian | December 20, 2013 at 06:23 PM
Mr Wilson's existence has only been confined to eating soup and mash potatoes all these years and mixing with White Anglos only......
Hmmmm
What a pathetic loser to believe in White power
#constant fail
Posted by: hipster libertarian | December 20, 2013 at 09:01 PM
A member of the intellectual left I take it?
Posted by: Anton | December 21, 2013 at 12:15 AM
Yes Anton...
The intelligentsia has spoken on all sides.
Ahem.
Happy New Year and enjoy sloshing the tomato sauce and meat pie around as an ugly Aussie Anglo
Freedom ##
Posted by: drea | December 21, 2013 at 04:43 PM
He's just like a timeshare investment, good for "today's spiel"(an elaborate or glib speech or story, typically one used by a salesperson),usually sold off and gone in the next financial budget. The only classic liberal was way back in the 1800's in England when liberal meant liberal thinker, not conservative fidgety widget(a placeholder for a shallow creep really)
Posted by: drea | December 21, 2013 at 05:06 PM
"The left" has been playing the ball for a long time. "The right" play the man better than anyone.
Yep..look at Menzies House blog.
bahaaaaaa!
Posted by: drea | December 21, 2013 at 05:22 PM
Happy New Year and enjoy sloshing the tomato sauce and meat pie around as an ugly Aussie Anglo
You're a racist fuckwit.
Posted by: John Mc | December 21, 2013 at 05:29 PM
Ask Wilson for entry of Golden Dawn next year for Antipodean Mardi Gras float
Freedom
Posted by: drea | December 21, 2013 at 05:30 PM
Hope you have a Happy Christmas John.
As for drea, it is only hipster libertarian in a different clown suit. Just another nasty mealy-mouthed prick with the intelligence of a gnat.
Posted by: Allan | December 21, 2013 at 05:42 PM
No not nasty!
Freedom ######
guilt by association with your comments there on being racist
bahaaaaaa!
Posted by: drea | December 21, 2013 at 06:16 PM
George Megalogenis
@GMegalogenis
@simon_as_twit The fence allows me to see hypocrites everywhere. By the way, the Tim appointment has annoyed key Libs. @JohnBirmingham
really...who exactly then?
Posted by: drea | December 21, 2013 at 06:26 PM
Still waiting........
When does Bolt's son get an appointment? ?
Revenge of the racist nerds!!
Trust me...you wouldn't be allowed in my establishment
A lot of conservatives hate Tim as he's gay and now he's a traitor.
It's going to be a bumpy ride
Posted by: hipster libertarian | December 27, 2013 at 08:35 PM
You're truly a turd that won't flush.
Posted by: John Mc | December 27, 2013 at 11:02 PM