Progress?
The Ombudsman concept was all the rage at a 1960s Liberal Party State Council, put to the meeting it passed with a handsome majority against the wishes of Premier Henry Bolte. Bolte argued that it was the job of MPs to intervene on behalf of constituents and ensure good governance throughout the Public Service.
How right he was, we spend umpteen $millions on these useless bodies, we have an Ombudsman for just about everything and they’ve become just another part of Government Industries and the Public Sector. The latter, that was once the Public Service, increasingly in unequal competition with the private sector.
But to the DPM, Minister Barnaby Joyce, and the possibility of action for Glen, firstly an apology from Gladys Liu and a promise to prosecute Glen’s case should be the first correction. After that it’s hard to disagree with the Sunfish advice:-
“Keep going until you have something in writing (an admission of wrongdoing no less) from CASA!”
Hopefully the caretaker protocols don’t inhibit BJ from directing the CASA Board to act now to compensate Glen