{"id":593674,"date":"2022-04-07T08:33:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T08:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/apr\/07\/australian-human-rights-commissions-status-at-risk-over-coalitions-appointment-process"},"modified":"2022-04-07T08:33:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T08:33:58","slug":"australian-human-rights-commissions-status-at-risk-over-coalitions-appointment-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/04\/07\/australian-human-rights-commissions-status-at-risk-over-coalitions-appointment-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Human Rights Commission\u2019s status at risk over Coalition\u2019s appointment process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International rights body has concerns that open and merit-based processes were bypassed in the filling of three key positions<\/p><ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Download the free Guardian app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><p><\/p><p>Australia\u2019s Human Rights Commission risks having its global accreditation downgraded because of the way the Coalition made key appointments.<\/p><p>It is claimed the government bypassed open merit-based selection processes for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/sep\/12\/who-is-lorraine-finlay-and-why-has-her-appointment-as-human-rights-commissioner-angered-some\">appointment of Lorraine Finlay<\/a> as human rights commissioner in 2021 and Ben Gauntlett as disability discrimination commissioner in 2019.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/apr\/07\/australian-human-rights-commissions-status-at-risk-over-coalitions-appointment-process\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/apr\/07\/australian-human-rights-commissions-status-at-risk-over-coalitions-appointment-process\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International rights body has concerns that open and merit-based processes were bypassed in the filling of three key positionsDownload the free Guardian app; get our morning email briefingAustralia\u2019s Human Rights Commission risks having its global accr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,1730,6,640],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593675,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593674\/revisions\/593675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}