The problem with the Judiciary is that they are more interested in protecting the legal system, which elevated them to their present height, rather than the people the system is supposed to serve.

I could be wrong, but I assume Justice & Judiciary are from the same base, but justice is most definitely one thing you should not look for in our "justice" system. When ever you hear that a court is in closed session, taking legal argument, you know some other crook is about to use expensive lawyers to get off his criminal activities. Lionel Murphy QC any one?

No the lowly common people get the law, not justice, while the privileged get the law they can afford. So please folks, do stop pontificating on respect for the Judiciary, that is the last thing most of them deserve.

Hasbeen,
Maybe you are right but I would prefer our Justice system and the associated Judiciary to anything a short term populist Prime Minister or Premiers of little ability could serve up. These pollies are purely looking after their own welfare and their only qualification is an excess of ego and delusions of grandeur.
Our Justice system does have its flaws but let our pollies run it and what flaws we have now would pale into insignificance as our personal freedoms are abolished.
SD

Shaggy Dog,
The QLD Govt. recently gave the CMC a much overdue run for it's money. You should have seen all the feigned indignation uproars from the hangers-on. For once a Government did something that the greater population agreed with & what do the hangers-on do ? Bleat all sorts of things like "going back to the bad old Joh days" etc etc. The CMC was a total waste of our much needed monies. I wish this Govt gets stuck into all the consulting rorts as well along with so many other shonky outfits.
I think organised crime has already grown roots in our public service, let's hope it can still be weeded out.
Evidence has already shown us that we can't rely on our judiciary to do that.

And yet Individual, we live in one of the best countries in the world.
Who should we rely on with crime fighting and punishment then?

Should we just arm everyone with several of your favourite things...guns, and let anarchy rule?

Maybe that is exactly the world that small-minded people would like to live in...

Should we just arm everyone with several of your favourite things...guns, and let anarchy rule?
Suseonline,
I suggested to arm them with sense & not guns i.e. my advocating a non-military national service.
The small mindeness you refer to is what we have now.

A little OT, but is it just me who can't access the article linked in the OP?

Either a) some of you are in so deep with Rupert he allows you free access to his organ, b) some of you are in so deep with Rupert that you actually subscribe to his organ or c) Rupert knows exactly what I think of his organ, knows where I live, and is singling me out for punishment.

On a more constructive note, can anyone actually tell me where I can find out what is going on here, without my having to pay a Rupert-tax?.