Is this inquiry for real? Talk about stirring up a viper's nest...
It seems to me that for Jogn Howard, it must fail the first test of any "Gummit" inquiry, and that is you (JH, in this case) should always know ALL the answers you're going to unearth before you let anyone lose probing under rocks that for your own self-preservation, might be best left undisturbed.
As for Robert James Lee Hawke... He must be going puce at the very thought of any inquiry into Ansett.