Why was Bank Royal Commissioner sitting with Frydenberg for photos?
Friday, 01 February 2019
The Letters Patent establishing the Banking Royal Commission are here.
This is the final page - note to whom the Final Report was to be submitted.
As Jason Morrison has pointed out on Facebook:
Good on Justice Kenneth Hayne. Judicial independence is central to why our system is great.
It used to be widely accepted and respected in politics a generation ago, but the lines have been blurred in recent years.
Photo opportunities are for politicians - not for judges.
It’s not a circus.
This was the only handover that counted.