Threatening corporate leaders with jail time over an accounting contrivance is part of trend where the national parliament is becoming a theatre for showboating and mock outrage.
Within bureaucratic circles there has been increasing unease about the Senate committee system becoming what one mandarin this week described as “a showboating exercise for social media”.
Greens senator Nick McKim was looking for a scalp on Tuesday, and outgoing Woolies boss Brad Banducci was his target.Non-government parties have long used the Senate’s inquiry powers to seek to embarrass the ruling party. But the combination of live-streaming and TikTok-like reels have turned committees into social media fodder, asOfficials begrudgingly accept they have to turn up.
Not any sort of offence, other than the contrived offence that McKim put on for the cameras and quickly posted to Twitter.
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