True enough Lester – but only James out of the four has had the integrity to admit he made mistakes and the courage to wear them. The rest, well you know the tale. Maybe we will find out why responsible, well paid agents of the government went to such extraordinary lengths to avoid owning, as James has publicly done, 'their' rightful portion of involvement in the causal chain. There must be a reason for their reprehensible, collective actions. FFS, they even tried to mislead the inquiry – why?, well that is the question, ain't it.
The James crucifixion was just icing on the cake for a scalp-hunter and an excuse to plagiarise the work of qualified, better men; used to assist climbing the slippery pole. Getting to the truth of it is a job for the AFP and the Senators, not Mike Walker, who, if he had any sense would obtain, written permission, parliamentary privilege and full support to use all the toys, or walk away from the microscope. As it stands, revisiting the original report just plays into the Murky Machiavellian hands; polite notes will be exchanged, some window dressing rearranged and normal 'service' will be resumed, with scarcely a ripple. Those who perpetrated this atrocity believe they will skip away to do it all over again: as and when it best pleases.
We know Dom dropped the ball, it's preventing a reoccurrence of both that and the ensuing aftermath which we must prevent. Never again can the opinion of one man be supported by a gross perversion of our national air safety systems. Those systems must be impeccable and as good as we can possibly make them. They are not some child's toy, to be picked up, used and abused, only to be dropped in the mud, on a whim.
Mike Walker will need a lot more juice than he presently has to get this crock home. All he can do is pedal like crazy and dutifully take his results back to the same trio who 'stage managed' the last little episode. They'll yawn, fart and sit on it for another couple or three years, before eventually allowing a carefully 'Sangsitised' version to be seen by those who matter. What a joke, what a mockery of the Senate and a good long Mickey Bliss on the travelling public. Yup, they got style.
Toot toot.
PS : Thorny – I want an invite to 'that' party, but, be advised; I won't be holding the jackets...
