Sue Neales Mercury
Premier David Bartlett this week told parliament that he did not like the “culture” that was emerging in Tasmania of a place dominated by smear, innuendo, rumours and false assertions. But what happens when it is an Upper House inquiry, constituted under proper mechanisms and parliamentary laws, which is contributing as much to damaging innuendo, smears and witch-hunts as any prevailing culture or political grandstanding exercise? Read more here