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PUBLIC DISTRUST The inquiry into the impact of COVID-19 found public trust in the governments of the day has been eroded. However, there are other factors that have contributed to this. In the last decade, there have been royal commissions and inquiries into banks, insurance companies, casinos and robodebt, and despite findings of multibillion-dollar frauds and other crimes, no one has been held to account and sent to jail.
Only when the rule of law is applied to all will my confidence be restored. Peter Heffernan, Balaclava Largesse afforded to ruling elite has no integrity Joe Aston has done the public a great service in shining a light on the Qantas chairman’s lounge. The spending of such largesse on a ruling elite of politicians, bureaucrats, directors and judges is truly alarming.
Its purpose can only be to garner favour for Qantas’ commercial ends. The provision of such a speakeasy can only be subversive of the appearance and reality of proper decision making and corrosive of legitimate decision making. Its purpose is essentially anti-competitive.
It is no answer that politicians may to some or other extent, sooner or later, declare favours that have been granted to them. The spending of shareholders’ money this way should simply .
