Allowing Australia to join the UN Human Rights Council would be like letting a fox loose in the hen-house, such is our own recent record on human rights. And you don't need to go back centuries to see it. Try going back a few years and decades.
“Since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in the early 1990s, incarceration rates have sky-rocketed. My people today are not only the most jailed people in Australia (we make up 3 percent of the population, but more than 25 percent of the national prison population) we are also one of the most jailed people in the world.Western Australia has the highest Indigenous jailing rate on earth, and no state or territory in Australia jails black males at a rate less than South Africa did in the dying days of Apartheid”. -Author Sol Bellear is chairman of the Aboriginal Medical Service Redfern.