“FARCICAL” is how Opposition Leader Elizabeth Lee describes the Barr/Rattenbury handling of the public release of the Sofronoff Inquiry findings on Monday.
Chief Minister Andrew Barr was presented with the inquiry findings last Monday and had intended to consider them for most of August until “The Australian” newspaper, which had a complete copy of the report, broke the story on Thursday. The government took a week to publicly release the report and its responses to it.
“There is no reasonable justification for how long it has taken for the Labor-Greens government to release the board of inquiry report to the public,” she says.
“The lack of leadership from the Chief Minister [Andrew Barr] and Attorney-General [Shane Rattenbury] over the last week, along with the findings in the report regarding the conduct of the director of public prosecutions have no doubt undermined the community’s faith in the ACT judicial system.
“The Chief Minister and Attorney-General spent the majority of their press conference today deflecting blame on to Mr Sofronoff, who they appointed and the media rather than the concerning findings in the report.
“There are still a number of questions to be answered by the Chief Minister and Attorney-General regarding the ‘preliminary review’ of prosecutions undertaken by Mr Drumgold, the circumstances surrounding his resignation and the implementation of the recommendations out of the report.”
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