Merry-go-round appointments at the CCC?
The Desert Rat read with interest that Jim McGinty had appointed his favourite lawyer Gail Archer SC to the position of Deputy Commissioner of the Corruption and Crime Commission. That is not strange as McGinty seems to get her to do everything these days as revealed in a previous post. Ms Archer is McGinty's appointment on the Medical Board of WA which cover some politically sensitive matters within his Health Ministry.
What is strange is that The Desert Rat was under the impression that Neil McKerrarcher SC and Mark Shanahan SC were the Deputy Commissioners to doddering Dad's Army Commissioner Major General Roberts-Smith.
There has been no announcement that McKerrarcher and Shananhan have resigned or been sacked by McGinty. The Desert Rat thinks they may have got in first and resigned because of the embarrassment the CCC incompetence has caused them or perhaps their views about the contents of CCC reports were being ignored and overridden by others at the CCC with a political agenda? The other possibility is they have been sacked because they could not accomodate the strange concept of making findings in CCC reports without evidence.
Either way they are no longer Deputy Commissioners it would appear and there has been some falling out that has not been made public. It is clear that McKerrarcher's (and Judge Hammond's) views were completely overridden in the rewrite of the Smith's Beach Report by CCC staff.
The Desert Rat thinks these changes in the Deputy Commissioners shows that all is not well down at the CCC. Especially when they are replaced by McGinty's favourite lawyer. Let's hope Gaill Archer shows her independence and spine, and stands up to Goons down at Dad's Army.
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