Shadow, i don't think that spplies to Royal Commissions as they have no litigants.

Aidan,

The litigants are the unions. The caveat is to prevent every single judge being forced to resign through phantom perceived biases.

Timing is often a key weapon in politics, obviously.
The time between the start a new Royal Commission and announcement of the findings might mean voters will not really know about BS until after next years (2016) national election.

With the acid test of Abbott's leadership about to unfold, the people of Canning WA are to pass judgement in a by election 19th September. Things are hotting up, it has come to light that the 'Rambo' candidate for the Liberal Party Andrew Hastie led troops that were involved in cutting off the hands of Afghan fighters, according to Hastie "his troops had done what was appropriate,", All rather abhorrent to the good folk of Canning.

Why twist the truth. Liberal candidate Andrew Hastie was on a flight when the hands were cut off for identification. He was a soldier at the time, not Rambo. And my guess is the hands were cut off dead corpses, absolutely different to a head being cut off a living person.
Taliban use improvised explosive devices knowing that they blow the legs and/or balls etc off their victims.

When might we hear news from the point of view of the alleged 16 year old rape victim who accused Shorten?

Whatever party wins the Canning election, will Malcolm Turnbull or Bill Shorten try to HELP world economic recovery by generating PRODUCTIVE business and employment and prosperity so there is less poverty and unrest and war?


http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/liberal-candidate-andrew-hastie-says-he-has-been-cleared-of-wrongdoing-in-afghan-war-incident-20150822-gj5b5h.html

Can you define what sort of identification would be involved by cutting the hands off a person. Why not a finger.