By Bruce Teague
IT IS normal practice for governments to set up inquiries and reviews only when they already know what the outcome will be.
People doing such jobs are usually classed as “sound”, to use a term favoured by Sir Humphrey Appleby of Yes Minister* fame. Governments and Ministers do not like surprises.
Those jobs in NSW and Queensland are being carried out now by small teams of legal people – judges, barristers and policemen – looking into the live baiting and related scandals. So far, so good.
Yet the briefs to the reviewers actually go further than that. The Queensland review, for example, has Read full article
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