Royal commission required

[billy the kid]

I agree something needs to be done about the Murray Darling but I am not sure a RC is the answer. $75 plus million and how long will it take? When it is done will the government of the day take the recommendations on board?

Seems like just another delay without having to act to me. It's a disgrace!

I half tend to agree...RCs are becoming the flavour of the month!

But what is the alternative?

as I agree its a bloody disgrace!

A federal RC could demand all states cooperate I think, rather than what happened with the SA one.

The government isn't bound by the recommendations ...

Our politicians are using royal commissions to handball big issues they can't solve

Here's a list of inquiries and reviews that have been conducted into aged care and what has changed? Nothing!

Here is a (long) list of the inquiries conducted, and this may not even be all of them. Some of these reviews are yet to conclude, let alone see final reports published:

A decent quality of life: Inquiry into the cost of living pressures on older Australians (Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs 2008)
Aged Care Amendment Bill 2008 (Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs)
Residential and Community Aged Care in Australia (Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Public Administration 2009)
A Healthier Future for All Australians (contained information about aged care, 2009)
Review of the Aged Care Complaints Investigation Scheme (2009)
Review of the residential aged care accreditation process for residential aged care homes (Department of Health and Ageing 2010)
Contribution of the Not-for-Profit Sector (Productivity Commission research paper 2010)
Productivity Commission Review into Aged Care (2011)
Legislated Review into Aged Care (2017)
Review of National Aged Care Quality Regulatory Processes (2018)
Senate inquiry into the effectiveness of the aged care quality assessment and accreditation framework for protecting residents from abuse and poor practices and ensuring proper clinical and medical care standards are maintained and practised (due November 2018)
Quality of Care in Residential Aged Care Facilities in Australia (Standing Committee on Health, Standing Committee on Health and Ageing, commissioned March 2018, no date yet for its final report)
The Aged Care Workforce Strategy (September 2018)
The latest aged care review may not be the last royal commission the Government announces. The Morrison Administration is keeping open the option of holding an inquiry into energy companies.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/ ... s/10262988

Someone needs to have the balls to put themselves out there and actually do something instead of wasting more money on inquiries/RCs that end up going nowhere and nothing changes.

The Murray Darling cannot survive this constant passing the buck from either side.

Things are crook in the brook when Australia has to have a RC into how the water in the Murray/Darling rivers is used....
Fkn disgrace...
The have a senate inquiry at the moment into banking which will be scuttled as the chairwoman is a banking plant....
Pathetic state of affairs in Australian Politics...
And here I am touting a coalition victory...goes to show how stuffed up the joint is...
One side is useless..the other side is incompetent....
I think Ill go and live on a desert island somewhere and do a Tom Hanks and starting talking to a fkn soccer ball.....!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUTXb-ga1fo

[Black Orchid]

Things are crook in the brook when Australia has to have a RC into how the water in the Murray/Darling rivers is used....
Fkn disgrace...

Agree wholeheartedly. They are all too gutless to do something about one of our most important resources, whilst we have to sit around and watch it die, and then expect applause when they call an RC.

Both sides are useless.

[Wally Raffles]

The mooted Royal Commission is about that 80 million dollar buy back.

[The Mechanic]

The mooted Royal Commission is about that 80 million dollar buy back.

The Rivers are Dry...

Where did the 80 Million go?

[sprintcyclist]

Things are crook in the brook when Australia has to have a RC into how the water in the Murray/Darling rivers is used....
Fkn disgrace...

Agree wholeheartedly. They are all too gutless to do something about one of our most important resources, whilst we have to sit around and watch it die, and then expect applause when they call an RC.

Both sides are useless.

Yes

[Neferti]

Things are crook in the brook when Australia has to have a RC into how the water in the Murray/Darling rivers is used....
Fkn disgrace...

Agree wholeheartedly. They are all too gutless to do something about one of our most important resources, whilst we have to sit around and watch it die, and then expect applause when they call an RC.

Both sides are useless.

Yes

Agreed!

Why do people on Forums call for a "Royal" into just about everything? You see it all the time.