Government by Enquiry
March 1st, 2013 by 
Viv
Viv Forbes
Written 1991
Gough Whitlam once boasted that he had a hundred expert committees hard at work on Australia’s problems.
This probably represented the high water mark of Government by Enquiry.
However the Goss government looks set to challenge Gough’s record.
Expert committees are already at work on the QIDC, Fraser Island, the Queensland Tourist and Travel Corporation, the ports, the financial institutions, land tenure, daylight saving, road safety, economic development and over-regulation.
Getting named to head a royal commission is a sure way to fame and wealth in Australia. Names such as Jackson, Crawford, Campbell, Vernon, Matthews, Costigan, Coombs, Henderson, Rae, Muirhead, Fox, Woodward, Williams, Sackville and Wilenski are remembered more for their enquiries than for anything else.
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