I’d challenge you to consider that one of the things the left has done the poorest in the last few years is propaganda. The right can make up whatever shit they want, any ‘opinion’ is given equal weight to fact. Science is considered left wing and thus those facts are given equal time to the opinions of the right in a useless attempt to appear balanced. The right has won the propaganda space well and truly. So while you might bask in your ‘gotcha’ moment*, all you do is assist in this legislation and others like it to pass. It derails the argument into technicalities rather than whether the Bill in and of itself is good or bad law. It ignores the big picture and the incremental steps that laws take, so that no one step really does a lot on its own until you look at the whole scheme and realise the bigger picture. That one incremental step creates precedents that further other incremental steps. That this incremental step seeks to undermine the application of the ICCPR in all administrative decisions, meaning all law is being changed here in terms of the way the government recognises rights (or not). It derails the conversation in favour of those who want this Bill to not have any attention. It makes the conversation fatiguing.

Fatigue, is why I shall say no more on this, other than, we’ll have to agree to disagree.

*which I remind you, we’ll have to agree to disagree on.