Tell the surviving perpetrator to tell the truth now about exactly why he did it, how it came to this for him and he will be kept safe and protected.

Tell the truth TODAY or we'll take him back to the bridge chain him to it and leave him there unprotected.

We'll have our answers by the end of the day, and it won't cost nothing.

You've successfully rebutted the claim that royal commissions necessarily take years, Scott, but that was never the decisive objection.

The real issue is instrument fit.

A royal commission is a blunt, disclosure-heavy tool designed for entrenched, systemic governance failure. The Bondi attack is first and foremost a criminal, coronial, and intelligence matter under NSW jurisdiction, with live investigative and security sensitivities.

Demonstrating that a commission can be fast does not demonstrate that it is appropriate, necessary, or superior to existing mechanisms already designed to handle precisely these kinds of incidents.

Back you go...

I honestly don't think they'd want a RC into Antisemitism.
Because then people like myself would be able to argue our criticisms on merit for all the world to see and hear, and our concerns would be at least somewhat validated.

Antisemitism seeks to prevent any and all criticism.
And a RC would potentially allow the hearing of, investigate and validate those criticisms as reasonable.
- Or it would be a staged whitewash.

Most things Albanese and his lap dogs say are “inaccurate”. Their only objection to a Royal Commission is what it would (hopefully WILL) say about them.

According to constitutional lawyer David Flint, the Governor General has the power to insist that the government hold a RC. But, of course, the GG is appointed.

Which brings us back to the fact that our political system is kaput.

Australia needs an ELECTED non-party president; Governor General if the need to stick to the decaying monarchy still prevails.

Flint often says, the monarchy protects us from politicians. It obviously does NOT.

"Royal Commissions are slow and disruptive with years-long timelines, overlap with court proceedings, risks to intelligence sources, and the freezing effect they can have on operational agencies." JD in an earlier thread.

"You've successfully rebutted the claim that royal commissions necessarily take years, Scott, but that was never the decisive objection."

A different opinion based upon the needs of the moment

Seriously, what can a RC give us other than what we either already know or suspect ?
It certainly won't tell us the failures of DEI which would be a major component in that system.
Change the heads of Departments involved & save millions.

mhaze,

Both quotes are entirely consistent, which is why you haven’t identified any specific contradiction.

Your claim only works if my earlier position is reduced to slowness alone, stripping out the other objections I listed at the time (disruption to live proceedings, intelligence risks, operational freezing, jurisdictional mismatch).

Once those are removed, it can be made to look like a reversal. But that isn’t a change of position, it’s a change of description.

It would have been more effective if you had you quoted me like this:
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"Royal Commissions are slow and disruptive with years-long timelines..." JD in an earlier thread.

"You've successfully rebutted the claim that royal commissions necessarily take years, Scott, but that was never [an] objection."
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But we don't want to be THAT obvious now, do we? Safer to quote me in full, then leave others interpret it the way you hope they do.

Nice try, but no cigar.

The upper class "stakeholders" couldn't care less about Albanese's ruinous levels of mass-migration, world-level rental and housing pain, punishing energy prices, two-tier educational system, and divisive social policies.

But hey, a performative RC that would only betray the Bondi victims, look-the-other way, they're all out on the hustings, protesting as one voice, their elevated levels of virtue on full display.

Steve S

Outside the opinions of those “that matter”, ( Courier Mail): #…A small number of extremists, mostly confined to online echo chambers, tried to exploit the tragedy to push division. But they were marginal…#

No, they were not marginal but profoundly main stream, they were brutally marginalised; and who by?

The culprits:
A RC or no RC, the effect is the same, they both represent the marginalisation of the common voice of truth and realism, which must be silenced. Both of these stances will effectively do the job of rendering all to ineffective obedience and the neutering of outside opinion. We are living in Venezuela!