Act's Brooke van Velden on the EOLC Referendum and Abolishing the Human Rights Commission: November 4, 2020

Bronwyn speaks to spoke to Act Deputy Leader Brooke Van Velden about the preliminary results of the End of Life Choice referendum. They then speak about Act's recent call to abolish the Human Rights Commission calling it a “hard-left organisation masquerading as a government department”. The Act party cites policies such as a living wage, raising benefits, an extra public holiday and hate speech laws as examples of the Commission’s left-leaning tendencies. Bronwyn asks Brooke whether the opposition is really to the Commission itself, or just the politicisation of the role.

You can listen to last week's interview where producer Jessica Hopkins asked Chief Human Rights Commissioner, Paul Hunt to respond to the Act party’s claim, here.