Time to clean up the Judiciary.
Serious questions need to be asked as to why Labor won’t introduce an Independent Judicial Commission given they claim it as one of their policies.
Instead of wasting $400 million on the voice referendum they could have been much more effective by holding the judges to account.
It’s well known that our judiciary is riddled with judges who at the very least are intellectually dishonest and at worst are very corrupt. Feedback from solicitors and barristers are that many are also lazy, taking months to years to hand down their decisions and failing to actually investigate the facts of the case.
The Labor Party back an Independent Judicial Commission but have done nothing about it while the Liberal Party won’t support their mates in the establishment being held to account.
The Liberal Party after all is controlled by people who believe they are born to rule. They will always protect the establishment.
That’s why I ask for your vote at the next Federal election as People First do back an Independent Judicial Commission and will lobby hard to see it implemented.
Senate on 18/11/2024
COMMITTEES
Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee
Reference
Senator RENNICK (Queensland) (19:03): I’m glad I’m given a right of reply, because I know that the Labor Party pushed back on my idea of having an independent judicial commission, despite the fact that they themselves support it. I think that we have seen many cases where judges are making decisions and, as one friend of mine who himself is a solicitor and who contacted me out of the blue said, being intellectually dishonest. I know, in the recent case with Senator Hanson, I have serious issues about that. Free speech is free speech. I know that that may go back to court, so I won’t say anything more about that at the moment, but I do think that we desperately need someone to hold the judges to account in Australia. They don’t have any oversight whatsoever. I have heard stories of some judicial decisions taking years to be handed down, which cost the people involved in those court cases a lot of money.
I would ask that the Labor Party support this motion. I think, in general, they do support a judicial commission but for some reason they don’t want an inquiry into it. I think we need to have an inquiry and I would like Labor to bring this forward as policy before the next election. If they really wanted to clean up corruption and judicial integrity in this country, they would pass the legislation. What are we waiting for, guys? Let’s bring it on.
