And he had been in the chair at the moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted as the core charter of the new United Nations organisation, which is dedicated to defend peace and security, human rights, and dignity of people everywhere. [...] Yesterday, in New South Wales, the last of the states of Australia to do so, the Premier of New South Wales, Mr Minns, with the support of the opposition and all parts of the Parliament, joined in an apology. [...] They served, and so I never asked questions about why, in divorce law, the domicile of the parent that was important, and the only domicile that was important was the domicile of the father, the husband. [...] Yesterday afternoon, I looked for the first time at the all-party joint committee on a human rights statute in Australia, and I must confess that I was surprised and saddened by the fact that the only members of the committee who supported what we've gathered here today to talk about were members from the government, from the Greens, from the Independents. [...] So we took it to court on behalf of one of the protesters and were successful in the Court of Appeal; having much of that injunction struck down on the basis of the Human Rights Act, and our right to protest, which it protects.
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