17 February 2012

Wivenhoe Dam probe risks loss of public confidence

Goodna RSL Services Club at Woogaroo Street Goodna
 after the devastating Brisbane River Flood of 11 January 2011.

CATE Holmes and the $15 million floods inquiry she leads will only lose precious public confidence by resorting to secrecy over evidence that Queenslanders have a right to know.

The prohibition she has ordered prevents publication of the final written legal submissions of lawyers, including her lead lawyer, where they make adverse references to witnesses at the inquiry that she does not agree with.

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