The law is straightforward. If you denigrate or demean the work of a Royal Commission, or indeed a Royal Commissioner, you risk being slapped behind bars. Not that it will ever occur, but the legal reality is that a bevy of Labor and Greens politicians, a thuggery (this journal prides itself on its original collective nouns) of union officials and a motley claque of Fairfax, ABC and other journalists, deserve to be cooling their heels in the not-too-distant-future at Her Majesty’s pleasure – or at least slapped with a hefty fine.
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