Paul Keating responds to Alexander Downer; Administrative Appeal Tribunal abolition; energy market intervention; giant batteries; robo-debt experience; letter to Prince Harry.
About every quarter now, I am obliged to respond to your columnist Alexander Downer over some distortion in reference to me, or another spray of acid. But Monday’s piece is particularly nasty.
I was painfully aware of our being militarily dragged to Asia from my childhood years, as my uncle was executed by the Japanese on the death march to Sandakan in Borneo in early 1945. And Downer well knows this. It was Downer and the Howard government who dropped the Pacific Islands ball, and I can see no reason why, all this time later, he should write about me and my government with such hostility other than a surge of malice.The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has been abolished but the proposal for a replacement body does not ensure independence or an independent process, or guarantee the end of cronyism.
is the correct one. Those who follow these things have seen the decline of this institution under the former Coalition government. The only thing you can do to arrest peak cronyism is to abolish the body itself and start again.
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