Sarcs: I said ‘very few people left’, not ‘no people left’.
Absent the ‘intel’ being fed to them, they would know very little and most of them would prefer not to know, unless the ‘intel’ provides ammunition to embarrass their opponents.
The issues of apparent ‘controversy’ being dealt with by the committee have been almost the same for decades - literally. The only thing that changes are the bums on the seats.
Independents have the luxury of never being incumbents. The major parties don’t have that luxury. They know that if they make too much noise about an issue, they might be expected to do something about it when the electorate next swaps dumb for dumber.
The ‘biggest’ decision any government has made in about a decade about the governance of CASA, was the reinstatement of the CASA Board. Has anyone noticed one iota of difference in outcomes between CASA having a Board and CASA not having a Board?