"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" - Juvenal 1C CE.
(Who watches the Watchmen?)
MiGMan's submission to the
Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Inquiry into Australian Defence Force Regional Air Superiority, 2006
In 2006 MiGMan's Flight Sim Museum
made a submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Inquiry into Australian Defence Force Regional Air Superiority.
The Committee Secretary, Dr. Margot Kerley, supervised the editing of the original submission not once, but twice. The submission was never presented to the standing commitee intact.
This surprised me, as I rather expected the inquiry comittee would be able to make up their own minds about the relevance of
submissions. But no, apparently even a Senate Committee only receives filtered information from the unwashed masses!
After several phone calls and emails the submission was presented to the committee under the aegis of the secretary, Dr. Margot Kerley, in abbreviated form. How wonderful that we have such dedicated gatekeepers at work for us!
You can read my emails as I attempt to have the submission posted unedited.
Eventually the submission was posted in an edited form, and can be read at
>>> external web-site –
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jfadt/adfair/subs.htm
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... or you can read the full version here (downloable pdf)
I am fully cognisant that my submission was almost certainly never viewed by a member of the committee. The
attitudes of the gatekeepers have been well documented in examples such as this interview with Denis Hughes of the Office of the Minister for Defence.
EXCERPTS HERE
>>> external web-site –
Full transcript here
January 2008 update
The newly elected Labour Government, after 11 years in the wilderness of opposition, has promised to look at all
major acquisitions by the Australian Defence Force. So there is hope yet for a logical outcome.
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