Dear Belly,

The New Year is almost upon us and with it are the
New Year Resolutions that many of us will make.
Mine, as far as this forum is
concerned will be to simply neither read or respond
but simply scroll past certain postings.

Belly, Thanks for this thread. For me it's now run its
course and I look forward to seeing you on the next
one.

Happy New Year - I'll drink a toast to you on New Year's
Eve!

Take care.

Take care.

Foxy,

It is an easy New Year resolution that requires no change.

For example, you are ducking this,

<If you, Foxy and 579 have any evidence to support your noxious allegations that reflect on the competence and independence of the commissioner and his staff you should put it forward.>

Foxy the same to you and yours remember the post under yours confirms you have made a good resolution.
Some come only to sink barbs in and see no opinion other than theirs.
Very few such posters last long here.
I again ask of balanced posters, what is the reason for this Royal Commission?
Now before answering how many know a truck drivers death in his truck on his factory floor is about the only workplace death *NOT INVESTIGATED BY WORK SAFE INSPECTORATES? WHY?
The answer may be while such deaths are not in the horrific numbers they once reached they are indeed bad indeed many times the tragic Pink Bats Toll.
And free passage of interstate freight may be more important than saving lives.
Why then not have a Royal Commission in to the road transport industry?
Yoy will be told time and again COSTS!

Onthebeach,
Sorry old mate I can't quite grasp what you are saying in respect of the RC bench officers.
The law teams representing the victims families would and will run rings around the bench
team and as far as integrity is concerned if you think that having a few 'silver-tail' degrees
makes for integrity I can assure you I locked up plenty of pedophiles
and lawyers and commerce degree holders for breaches of the Criminal Law.
These RC bosses are hand picked by the government on the advice of their own Law Society unionists.
The results are a forgone conclusion as everybody already knows. You don't have a RC unless you already know the outcomes.
Abbot is simply hoping that he might be able to goal a few Labor Party heads but I can't see that happening.
As far as the Fitzgerald RC ! and 2 were concerned. I can guarantee the man himself was as
honest as the day is long but a lot of the people around him were not especially in government and police ranks.
I know because I was an investigator on secondment from NSW in the first one and Fitzgerald's bodyguard in the second.

Gee Onthebeach, I am surprised at you supporting lawyers and barristers working for this RC as pillars of society!
What would your bosom pal Individual say about that?
Whether they are squeaky clean or not, you are not able to prove one way or the other can you?

The fact remains that we already know that it was the fault of shonky safety standards from shonky Pink Batt installers that caused these men to die, with the Government partially at fault for not setting higher standards for these businesses.

We don't need an expensive RC to tell us all this over again.

By the way, we have a rental property that has never given us any problems, and we certainly reap the financial benefits at tax return time...

Ask yourselves one question, how many deaths occurred once the scheme was shut down BY THE PM.

Answer, ZERO!

Need I say more, because had he (Rudd) acted on the advice of experts, those four young people would not have died on those days and that is one critical fact that can not be disputed.

Furthermore, if the states were responsible, why then did Rudd shut the scheme down, not to mention kick it off.

You people are simply trying to protect the man.