Opinion
The Greens’ cheapening of the purpose of parliament’s power to compel witnesses to appear is too galling for Australian business to remain silent.
In 1954, United States senator Joseph McCarthy was asked the pointed question: “Have you no decency, sir?”
That question, from the attorney Joseph Welch at the televised Army-McCarthy hearings, spelled the end of a chilling period in American history.
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