Thread: Mike Loder

Originally Posted by 300CALMAN

So true, "suitably qualified" should mean knowledgeable in the subject with real world experience not ideologically suitable. Government select committees would probably evaporate overnight.

Yea they are only for window dressing at the best of times, the Government set the terms of reference and appoint who sits on the committee, so often the outcome is pre determined. The Government learnt a very valuable lesson when the appointed Justice Peter Mahon to head the enquiry into the Erebus disaster as he reported the truth. They could not control him so had to discredit him as they did not want to be accountable.
With their manipulation of select committees and boards of enquiry the first focus is not the facts or truth but damage control.
We saw this with the royal commission into the Mosque shooting, Police were never held to account for fiasco of the vetting and issuing of the firearms licence.