“CASA will do all it can to ensure that a person whose licence, certificate or authority is suspended or cancelled has ready access to full external merits review in the AAT. Once before the AAT, CASA will conduct itself as a model litigant.” CASA, in a document entitled: A new approach to enforcement. March, 1989.
“Anyone other than Dick Smith who joins CASA, becomes ‘infallible'”– Dick Smith, August 1998.
“That’s the way the system works. They think: ‘We are powerful and we are totally unaccountable.'” – Dick Smith, August 1998.
When he made those comments, Dick Smith had already found the battle against authoritarian, intransigent and what he sometimes called ‘incompetent’ bureaucracy, tougher going than he had anticipated. But at that time events in the Torres Strait had already shown how much further there was to go. This incident was not Continue reading
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