It is a great pity that the Australian Senate does not have the same sort of inquisitorial role that the United States Senate does. Some of the US Senate’s enquiries are well worth watching. As Australians do not have a constitutional right to remain silent, I suspect an inquisitorial Senate enquiry would be quite revealing in many ways.
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