A proper commission of inquiry should not be conceived with payback in mind but with a view to how things could be done better the next time.
was lauded by all sides of politics in a series of condolence speeches on Monday, which was the first time parliament had sat since the former Labor leader’s sudden death on June 25.
“Simon was right when he said that the issue of Iraq was one which created a clear divergence between the two major political parties,” Dutton said.“Yes, the Coalition had disagreed with Labor’s view that Australia was simply or blindly following the United States. Yet upon coming to power in November 2007, Rudd never followed through on his promise to hold a royal commission, meaning Australia was the only leading advocate of a war based on ginned-up and fabricated intelligence never to have held a proper commission of inquiry.
Now that its work is done and, presumably, the villains named in the sealed section are being pursued, it is time for Albanese to make good on his other pre-election promise – “a royal commission or some form of inquiry, that will need to happen” into Australia’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
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