Nothing leaked, but I am aware that there exists a class of very bright, hard working and thoroughly decent public servants who have the interests of Australia at heart.
Those folk work for The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.
They are quite capable of dismembering CASA on a Sunday morning and reconstituting something better By Monday afternoon. They are very very bright people, they will see right through CASA and brook no excuses......and they do work Sunday mornings when it's needed.
I watched one of them utterly destroy part of a Department that had Developed some, shall we say, "undesirable tendencies". It was gone in less than a week after the brief got Cabinet approval. The execution was done with a stilleto and there was no collateral damage to it's staff who were simply reassigned and transferred.
The guilty, on the other hand, suddenly found that their little gravy train had run out of steam, and that there were no alternative senior positions available...ever.
To put it another way, if CASA becomes enough of an embarrassment to the government, it will be PM & C that acts, and they are smart.
Last edited by Sunfish; 5th Nov 2012 at 00:58.