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Kenneth Hayne is right: government is broken, the engine and the drivers

Jack Waterford
Updated July 2 2021 - 2:32am, first published August 9 2019 - 11:30am

Kenneth Hayne, the former High Court judge who conducted the banking royal commission, is quite right to suggest the political and bureaucratic system is broken and in need of reconstruction, as he did in his review of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority. But some of those wisely nodding their heads, or shaking them, according to their immediate partisan advantage, are missing part of the point: it's the car that's broken; he's not criticising the driving.

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Jack Waterford

Jack Waterford is a former editor of The Canberra Times.

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