Jess Hill

And that's extremely powerful and it can be healing in itself.

So there's a cathartic truth-telling that happens with Royal Commissions.

And I'd hate to see a situation where we start seeing this very powerful mechanism as something that is pointless.

Yes, we know that governments sometimes use them as delay tactics.

Yes, we know that sometimes they unearth all sorts of horrors and all sorts of possible solutions and then lead to nothing.

But there is no other process.

that can subpoena the level of information that might be required to look across an entire system and see what's going wrong, that can summon people who would otherwise refuse to attend any other type of inquiry that might be held and make them stand there and get examined by lawyers and get asked all those hard questions that they won't have to answer almost anywhere else.

So this is a really important process.

But yes, I think, you know, there's been a lot of disappointment.

There's been disappointment after the Banking Royal Commission.

There's disappointment after the Royal Commission into Violence Against People with Disability.

You know, that was $600 million, four years, unearthed total horrors that nobody had any idea about outside of the disability community.

And yet...

the take-up of those recommendations across federal government, state and territories was, like, minimal, you know.

And so I just, yeah, I don't think it's the Royal Commission's that are the problem.

I think it's the government's.