Telstra - Now They're Human Rights Experts

They can't respond to a service call. They love to hire foreign nationals to run their company. They can't implement Internet services for the country. They are monopolistic in nature, expensive, inefficient and made quite a loss in the last financial year. Leveraging in such success and believability they are now attacking Australia's human rights record.

Not China's or Burma's or Saudi Arabia's or Rawanda's but Australia's human rights record.

OK let's do some comparisons. Does our constitution allow for wife beating, genital mangling or killing in the name of God? No, not when I last read it. Do we immediately deport all illegal immigrants, refugees or people we don't like without any hearings or representation? No. Can anyone coming into our country buy land? Yes they can. Try to do the same thing just about anywhere in Asia. Try doing it in China, Burma or Thailand for example.

After working here for a few years can the individual apply for citizenship? Yes, again try doing that in any countries, apart from New Zealand in a 6000 mile radius. In Thailand for example it takes a minimum of fours years, under ideal conditions, to get something as simple as residency and even then you are not given a work permit. Do we put our children to work and let them beg at intersections? Not that I have ever seen but common in any nation to our general north.

What right does a business even have to use their position in the country to even make such claims. What we have now is a system that gives us everything and only those things that are not allowed are declared under law. Telstra, and all the Bill of Rightists, are arguing that we should give this up for a document that tells us what we can do with everything else not allowed. To see what a system brings just look across the oceans at America.

There you will find a litigious society where the judges and lawyers tell you what you can and cannot do. This by people that do not fall under review in our country and a group that is not at all interested in what of right or wrong or who is guilty or not but how well they can play the game of 'law.'

How about those in Telstra, and the rest who are spouting the Bill of Rights, move to the US and leave the majority of us remaining here who want nothing to do with it. We are so far ahead, in terms of human rights, than anyone else (NZ again excepted) in the region that to make such claims only means those making them know nothing about the realities of this subject.