cont'd ...

There you go leoj - now go nuts with your
attacks!

Enjoy!

Just to broaden this a little, those charged with the responsibility for the management controls in this case would include,

AEC
Clerks of the federal Parliament
Parliament itself, both Houses

A case of all imagining it was someone's else's responsibility? Who should take responsibility for the absence of checking and will anyone be held accountable? Maybe not and not even the offender himself, it seems.

How easy it is for those who ought to know better and are paid very well indeed for their responsibility and claimed professionalism to trivialise and even imply unnecessary restrictions and silliness, in the necessary criteria (few that there are!).

Yet these politicians enjoy trusted, privileged access to information and advising, and are able to access the confidential information on citizens and business. The last mentioned in especially of concern for commercial processes and inventions.

One of the protected species and too high to be accountable, is that it?

Foxy,
If it already occurs to you that Richardson is anything but a reliable, independent source why would you rely on him? Your politics, one assumes?

Surely there is a higher level for this discussion. You should be wondering how, by what means, people in high places can escape detection and accountability for their wrongs and for so long.

leoj,

I chose the article by Richardson because what he
wrote made sense to me. I don't care for his politics.
And what wrongs of Ludlum's are you referring to
exactly. What has he done - apart from having a mental
illness and suffering from severe depression. As I
understand it he has served the people of Australia
very well. Can you provide any evidence to the contrary?

cont'd ...

Here is another link that I think is very pertinent
to our discussion here. It asks the relevant question -
Scott Ludlum has to stand down but it is ok that our
head of state - the Queen is 100 per cent English:
Where does her loyalty lie, whose interests does she
promote whilst travelling overseas or meeting trade
delegations ? Australia's or British?

http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/4792179/scott-ludlum-has-to-stand-down-but-its-ok-that-the-queen-is-100-per-cent-english/?cs=7

All completely irrelevant.

There is a higher plane for this discussion.

But Foxy you are likely heading in that direction albeit unintentionally, by modelling the cognitive errors and public apathy, 'What does it matter?', that allow public administration to rot from the head down.

For example, how can you expect good governance (and good government) where you yourself have such low expectations of the competence, principles and ethics of public officials, politicians and leaders?

What a load of utter nonsense! If this bloke was born in NZ, yet spent most of his life in Australia, so what! Oz and the Kiwi's we're joined at the hip, we've fought in every war together, in fact many, from both sides of the pond have suggested NZ should become another Australian State. Why on earth are we making such a big deal of this, surely we have infinitely more important matters to attend to rather than this rubbish?