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Recent royal commissions have been a gross extravagance : Comments
By Brendan O'Reilly, published 3/1/2018The overall cost has been estimated at a whopping $477.986 million in direct costs, plus $70.5 million for victim support services.
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Now the SA 'water theft' Royal Commission aims to subpoena upstream villains into confessing to their crimes. Trouble is SA wastes 800 gigalitres a year through evaporation in the lakes near the Murray mouth. The lakes are kept artificially fresh by manmade barrages that prevent sea water incursion. Both RCs seem to demonstrate a major sense of entitlement.