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Rule of law, not rule by lawyers
Letting the lawyers and a federal ICAC run all over politics would not restore confidence in the system. It would do the opposite.
John RoskamColumnistA federal Independent Commission Against Corruption would make Australia’s politics even more like America’s politics than it is already.
‘Americanised’ politics is the seemingly unstoppable transfer of the power of decision-making from the electorate and the process of politics to judges and lawyers and the process of law.
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