In sport, the role of the umpire is sacrosanct; any attempt to corrupt or undermine the umpire incurs heavy penalties for bringing the game into disrepute.
The financial security of all Australians is at stake today, with the beginning of the Senate Economics References Committee’s hearings into the collapse of Sterling First.
The current Senate inquiry into the Australian Security and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) handling of the Sterling First collapse is not off to a good start.
Following more than two years of mental anguish which claimed 16 lives, the elderly Sterling First tenants who are victims of ASIC have succeeded in achieving their first goal of a Senate inquiry. On Wednesday this week, 20 October, the Labor Party moved a motion from WA Labor Senator Louise Pratt for an inquiry, which passed unopposed.
Senator Pratt’s motion read: