This government is a complete joke.
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"Heydon's spectacular demise - for surely he cannot credibly continue - is the latest political and administrative disaster for a Prime Minister who is now the most crisis-prone since the McMahon and Whitlam periods"and just for the emperor
Abbott government's week from hell: question of 'whether' this farce will end now moves to 'when'Date August 13, 2015 - 4:07PM
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Mark Kenny
Chief political correspondent
As the accidents and bungles mount daily, the pre-eminent question in Australian public affairs seems to be moving rapidly from "whether" this farcical political period will end, to "when".
Justice, as he would know, must be done and be seen to be done. That now is impossible.
Tony Abbott's royal commission into trade union governance and corruption had always been a nakedly political exercise - a cynical plan B by a government that lacked the guts to take on trade union power through the front door by way of industrial relations deregulation after its over-cooked WorkChoices experiment.
So too the choice of inquisitor.
And it was in these two decisions that the seeds of its now calamitous failure were sown.
The selection of the avowed conservative Justice Dyson Heydon had tainted the credibility of the $61 million royal commission from the get-go.
Now his participation as a drawcard in a Liberal Party fundraising event has removed any remaining air of independence he and his process had enjoyed.
Justice, as he would know, must be done and be seen to be done. That now is impossible.
Heydon's spectacular demise - for surely he cannot credibly continue - is the latest political and administrative disaster for a Prime Minister who is now the most crisis-prone since the McMahon and Whitlam periods.Read more:
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