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Old 2nd Aug 2022, 01:59
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Sandy Reith
 
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Integrity Body ?

With respect, and wholeheartedly supporting Glen and others wishing to pursue justice, fair dealing and commonsense from any Commonwealth or other government instrumentality, calling for some new type of ICAC or some such commission will only encourage yet more CASA type independent bodies that will become law unto themselves and for themselves.

The only way forward is through your MPs and the courts. We must expect our MPs to take responsibility. We vote them in and out. Glen’s involvement in the ousting of his former MP Gladys Liu is a great example of our democracy at work. Hopefully Glen’s new MP will take Glen’s case on and come to realise that by fixing one glaring wrongful deed by CASA this will provide an excellent example to the whole of the Commonwealth Public Sector, even that we might one day call it again the Public Service.

Then we have a legal system, the A-Gs Department and courts. We need to build on what has taken centuries to develop, however imperfect but heading off at a tangent with ill defined new and expensive taxpayer funded Commonwealth ‘justice’ bodies will create more problems. We spend $40 million pa on the Commonwealth Ombudsman who is supposed to do exactly what Glen deserves. What value there? Put that money into making the courts available and into MPs offices precisely to assist people up against bureaucratic intransigence.
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