Has anything really changed with the Tasmanian Government’s control over powers they will give inquisitorial processes intended to discover the truth:
Deja vous with Justice Murray Kellam’s comments:
“At the moment it would appear that our legislation limits us somewhat in our investigative powers on own motion process and that’s a matter I’ll be taking up with the Attorney General.”
In Volume 1 from the Report of Commissioner Dennis Mahoney of the Commission of Inquiry into the Shooting of Joe Gilewicz it stated:
“The decision to refuse the power to apply for leave to use listening devices has, I believe, hindered the investigations which I desired to carry out. As I assured the Minister in discussion, there were then two lines of investigation in which it was then desired that the power to use listening devices be available, Because of the Government’s decision these lines of inquiry were not able to be pressed.
“Considerations of other possible lines of investigation had necessarily to be put aside.
I am not able to determine with certainty whether, had these powers been available, the outcome of the investigations undertaken by the Commission would have been different. It may have been so.”
Many voiced the opinion that the Government’s actions amounted to a political assassination of an Inquiry for fear of the truth being uncovered.
Nothing has changed.
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