Peter Ryan was going to revolutionise the NSW police force and eliminate corruption.Instead they changed the name to Police Service so they remain subserviant to a legal system that justifies all manner of debauchery and poor behaviour defined as rights that must be maintained at all costs.

Anything our NSW Govt does is always over shadowed by fear of litigation.They are comatose with fear,thus this mentality permeates the whole of their Public Service.No courageous decisions are made and individuals cannot think for themselves for fear of legal ramifications.Is it any wonder that our police service cannot decipher a media prank from reality?

Well done to the Chasers of the ABC since they have revealed a society too constrained by our legal disease and a gutless State Govt in continual damage control.

Are you going to answer my questions about ATSIC Arjay or are you trying to hide from me?

Gee Rainer,read my last retort.I didn't know that Atsic was abolished.My builder friend tells a true story.These negotiations can take years.He went to help in Thailand after the Tsunami, so don't try to denergrate all those whom you have an ideological difference with.Get the chip off you shoulder and happiness will follow.

What the chasers did to show up the 330 million dollar kangaroo strength wall of shame, just proves something. No matter how much of our taxes you waste on a second rate military conference, which is what APEC has become, with a little trade, a tickle of culture and the environment on the side, and a few billion dollars of our tax payers money, Howard comes out smug that he has so much money to spend.

Meanwhile, they are targeting old age pensioners with Alzheimer's with letters from Centrelink that they were overpaid in 2002. Now, of course they can't remember what they are talking about as they have Alzheimers. In every letter, it is generic. $1,200 I know of 6 threats with the same story, the same threat to the same demographic.

So while they spend millions on this ugly wall and Soviet style security, which is useless, they are literally taking the teeth out of pensioners.

They are useless at welfare, they are useless at diplomacy, they are useless in business, to sum up, this Government is useless. It has the backing of George W Bush, voted the worst President in history by a majority of Australians and Americans. Where does that leave Howard in his spending spree?

So by comparision Saintfletcher,do you think that the NSW Govt is good and responsible?If the polls are correct the Coalition is gone no matter who they put in as leader,however putting ideology aside, they are the best Govt economically we've had for decades and if you can't balance the books good intentions are meaningless.

it's your own fault, stf: you're afraid of democracy, and yet discontented with pollie rule. if you give power to pollies, this is what you get.

oz could have democracy, with a little effort, but it would need citizen quality people. fearful whingers have to make do with being ruled by arrogant and incompetent grifters.