Para..”It really is about time that the accountable Minister actually accepted responsibility for the mess and demanded that his bureaucrats fix it once and for all.”
Spot on and we’ve probably taken a while to come to grips the inherent and root cause of the debacle that is Australia’s debilitated GA sector, the independent regulator, a hands off attempt by Parliament to govern by remote control, all care (tea and sympathy, see Senator McDonald) but no responsibility.
Note the the two year timeline for her Senate Committee investigation.
At the time of it seemed an inordinately long inquiry. didn’t wake up to the logical sense of it going through to election time so that there was no possibility of reform action in this Parliamentary term.
McDonald and Sterle could have kicked up a racket but no, kicked the can down the road instead.