ex-Mayor Murrindindi submission "too late" for Bushfire inquiry

[ROBwithaB]

Brumby has slithered his way out of this one by the seat of his pants.

How can any enquiry be meaningful without including the leadership?

Where does the buck stop?

[ROBwithaB]

From the beginning, this entire enquiry smells of political expediency. They don't really want to find out what happened, because that would entail people having to admit that they made mistakes. Such responsibility for system-wide failures would need to extend all the way up to the state (and possibly even national) government.

But they do need to be seen to be "doing something" and "taking action".

So they'll just draw this whole thing out and keep talking about it until people lose interest.