MOIE
No, it’s not the “legal system”.
It’s the political system.
The political system in Australia has (d)evolved to the point at which the primary aim of the major parties is to obtain and retain power for power’s sake. The major parties are just machines, fine-tuned to that purpose.
Although many individual parliamentarians within those parties may be very decent and dedicated people, they are still part of the machine.
The machine has an automatic response to any issue: How many votes are in it?
Even if all of the allegations that have been made against CASA and the ATSB are true, there is no political imperative to do anything about it. The issue is not one that will make or break any government.
What CASA and the ASTB do, and how well or badly they do it, affects tiny percentages of tiny probabilities of the events that might change a small percentage of votes, sometime in the future. Events that might change a small percentage of votes sometime in the future aren’t on any major party’s radar.
The answers to your 3 further questions are:
1. See above.
2. See above.
3. See above.
Even Sunfish, who understands the above, often makes the mistake of blaming the monkeys rather than the organ grinders.
Last edited by Creampuff; 2nd May 2013 at 06:11.