Morning Mail: Gillian Triggs, #libspill2, 'Jihadi John' identified, UQ suppressed racism study

Guardian Australia's Morning Mail Friday 27 February 2015 g
Gillian Triggs
After denying any job offer was made to Gillian Triggs, Julie Bishop concedes that "a role was raised that related to international affairs". Writing for Guardian Australia, Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan says another PM will apologise for the attacks on Australian Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs: "One day, many years from now, another prime minister will apologise for the damage done to refugees in detention. We will be told that we didn’t know then what we know now. But we did know. We just chose not to hear and to silence those who tried to remind us of the truth."Ruddock asked me to do my job "without fear or favour", and I was a human rights commissioner under five attorneys-general from both sides of politics, writes Graeme Innis. George Brandis was the only one to question my integrity. While former NSW premier Kristina Keneally writes that, until the Australian Labor Party takes responsibility for the harm it has done to asylum seekers, it can't credibly criticise the government for its response to the Forgotten Children report.
Australian news and politics
Coalition MPs are reportedly telling Malcolm Turnbull he 'has the numbers' to topple the PM, and are urging him to challenge Tony Abbott again. Is ‪#‎libspill2‬ on? It's been revealed the University of Queensland suppressed a study on racism on council buses and punished the co-author for misconduct after Brisbane City Council complained. He'd found bus drivers were much less likely to let black people ride for free. The Tasmanian government will extend its ban on fracking for five years to protect the state’s agricultural industry. Olivia Mead, the daughter of WA billionaire Michael Wright, has been granted a $25m payment, covering expenses that include $5,000 worth of shoes a year, a $1.2m crystal-encrusted grand piano, and funds to care for her pet axolotl
Around the world
The UK man behind the gruesome Isis beheading videos - 'Jihadi John' - has been named as Mohammad Emwazi, a 26-year-old west Londoner and university graduate. How Mohammed Emwazi went from fresh graduate to knife-wielding killer. The US Department of Justice and embattled Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel are under mounting pressure to investigate allegations of what one politician called “CIA or Gestapo tactics” at a secretive Chicago police facility exposed by the Guardian. Isis militants ransacked Mosul’s central museum, using sledgehammers to destroy priceless artifacts that are thousands of years old in a bid to crush what they call non-Islamic ideas.
One last thing
"Madonna is only 56. She is in the prime of her life. She is about to release her 13th album – one of her best yet. The things she is ordered to do – age gracefully, put it away, retire, crawl away and die – have behind them a desire to shame, permanently destroy and negate this woman who dares to be vocal and visible, physical and political." Have an excellent day – and if you spot something I've missed, let me know on Twitter @earleyedition.