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I'm not a lawyer; in fact I am afraid of the power of lawyers to usurp the power of parliament. In the U.S., the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that American courts are not bound by direct orders from the president. Applied to Australia we should reject any charter of rights for this very reason. Janet Albrechtsen "Beware the Galloping Imperialist Judiciary", (The Australian, April, 13, 2008, p.14) has it right when she says that this class of new class elites distrusts the Australian people. They have a social agenda that they want to see imposed upon us.

Worse, human rights are as numerous as diseases and as controversial. Human rights are not universal timeless truths. Lawyers know this. Human rights means more litigation and more litigation means more money. Money, above all else, is what lawyers love. Like pigs in the mud and ducks in water. A bill of rights will mean a bigger shift in power from parliament to lawyers. We have enough problems with politicians: the rule of lawyers will be a tyranny most terrible.