[Wombat]

Sandy

Say no more, except to repeat that the independent monopoly corporate concept of governance via a statutory authority is a failed experiment and there’s no substitute for the Westminster system of responsible government which means Ministerial control and accountability. Would you countenance palming off other important areas of government administration? How about the Department of Defence for example?

Actually, large chunks of Defence are sub contracted out to what are effectively "mini CASAs". because they are allegedly more efficient.

The net effect has been to lobotomise the engineering and support capabilities of the services. The fire and deaths on HMAS Westralia for example were a direct result of a dumb engineering decision by a contractor and not one EO caught on to something that any trained marine engineer would know was lethal.