Paragraph377 forecasts the a likely outcome overall but industry pressure has got them rattled. Not much but enough to encourage, and certainly showing signs that we’ve not seen since the CASASTROPHE was formed.
The extraordinary RRAT video with CEO Pip Spence floundering about while the now real CEO, Jon Aleck, is visibly relaxing in the knowledge that the initials PS might describe someone’s career end point.
But hold the press, out today is Barnaby Joyce’s new Statement of Expectations. While it has more escape hatches than a slab of honey comb its provisions could be used to up the ante if BJ is the Minister after the election. That’s not much more than conjecture but the wording is different from the run of all previous SoE’s. It even has a requirement that the Board make regular reports on its deliberations. That will give rise to plenty of
PR drivel but even that will give us ammunition.