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Australia has hardly played ball with the UN lately; not only did we side with the US in Iraq but five years ago, after a similar report, Alexander Downer had the courage to say: “We are a democratically elected government in one of the most liberal and democratic countries you will find on earth. And if a UN committee wants to play domestic politics here in Australia, then it will end up with a bloody nose.”

Woohoo! From:

The Australian - James Morrow: UN is not fit to criticise

Which also features the following jewels:

One of the committee’s big problems in the report is that some Australian states and territories have mandatory sentencing requirements for certain crimes. This is problematic for the UN because more indigenous people are sent to jail under these laws than members of other ethnic groups — something which, in the perverse correlation-proves-causality logic of the UN, proves Australia racist. (The idea that mandatory sentences might also lead to a colour-blind judiciary apparently never occurred to them.) Under UN thinking, Australia’s democratically elected state and territorial governments are free to make their own laws — so long as they don’t offend a body whose voting members are mostly very non-democratic countries. …

Yet tellingly, while the UN was happy to take a bunch of “reports” about anti-Muslim behaviour on faith, the committee also made no mention of the very real rise in anti-Semitism in Australia during the past few years - or that suburban Islamic bookstores openly sell anti-Jewish and anti-Christian propaganda, including the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Crucifixion or Cruci-fiction?