{"id":637684,"date":"2022-05-04T17:30:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T17:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/may\/05\/human-rights-ambassador-needed-to-restore-reputation-after-morrisons-negative-globalism-labor-says"},"modified":"2022-05-04T17:30:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T17:30:15","slug":"human-rights-ambassador-needed-to-restore-reputation-after-morrisons-negative-globalism-labor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/04\/human-rights-ambassador-needed-to-restore-reputation-after-morrisons-negative-globalism-labor-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Human rights ambassador needed to restore reputation after Morrison\u2019s \u2018negative globalism\u2019, Labor says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition also pledges to defend Australian Human Rights Commission with return to merit-based appointments<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/australian-news-live\/latest?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/australian-election-2022?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Guardian Australia\u2019s full federal election coverage<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news 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><\/li><\/ul><p>Labor will appoint an ambassador for human rights if it wins the federal election, pledging to restore Australia\u2019s leadership on the world stage and draw a line under Scott Morrison\u2019s \u201cnegative globalism\u201d.<\/p><p>Weeks after it emerged the Australian Human Rights Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/apr\/07\/australian-human-rights-commissions-status-at-risk-over-coalitions-appointment-process\">risks having its global accreditation downgraded<\/a>, Labor also promised to \u201cdefend\u201d the institution with a return to merit-based appointments.<\/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\/may\/05\/human-rights-ambassador-needed-to-restore-reputation-after-morrisons-negative-globalism-labor-says\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/may\/05\/human-rights-ambassador-needed-to-restore-reputation-after-morrisons-negative-globalism-labor-says\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition also pledges to defend Australian Human Rights Commission with return to merit-based appointmentsFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGuardian Australia\u2019s full federal election coverageGet our free news app; get our morn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4049,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,48325,1730,6,18698],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637684"}],"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\/4049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637685,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637684\/revisions\/637685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}