"On 10 December 2008 the Commonwealth Attorney-General, the Hon. Robert McClelland MP, launched the National Human Rights Consultation, honouring the Australian Labor Party’s 2007 election commitment to ‘initiate a public inquiry about how best to recognise and protect the human rights and freedoms enjoyed by all Australians’ ... and to ‘establish a process of consultation which will ensure that all Australians will be given the chance to have their say on this important question for our democracy.’" (Quoted from paper)