08-23-2022, 07:24 PM
“ Aye well, we'll always have Albo…”
And we have his independent ATSB.
When as Transport Minister, he kicked the ATSB out of his Department. In his reading speech he declared that it shouldn’t be subject to politics.
Right, so an arm of government shouldn’t have to comply with the expectations of the citizen’s representatives.
PM Albanese and his Ministers are all about maintaining the Westminster system, so they say.
It was Labor Minister Gareth Evans who got rid of aviation out of his Department, and managed to 3/4 ruin General Aviation by the creation of an independent regulator, CASA, ‘not subject to politics.’
On display is a breathtaking ignorance about the concept of Ministerial responsibility and the nature of democratic control of government through elected representatives. Won’t be long before this Labor government creates more such independent bodies to take away responsibility from Ministers with the inevitable bad outcomes at huge expense to the taxpayer.
And we have his independent ATSB.
When as Transport Minister, he kicked the ATSB out of his Department. In his reading speech he declared that it shouldn’t be subject to politics.
Right, so an arm of government shouldn’t have to comply with the expectations of the citizen’s representatives.
PM Albanese and his Ministers are all about maintaining the Westminster system, so they say.
It was Labor Minister Gareth Evans who got rid of aviation out of his Department, and managed to 3/4 ruin General Aviation by the creation of an independent regulator, CASA, ‘not subject to politics.’
On display is a breathtaking ignorance about the concept of Ministerial responsibility and the nature of democratic control of government through elected representatives. Won’t be long before this Labor government creates more such independent bodies to take away responsibility from Ministers with the inevitable bad outcomes at huge expense to the taxpayer.