1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Am I right to inquire just what is it that 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:05,440 Speaker 1: Tama potark has been doing for a year and a half. 3 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:06,920 Speaker 1: I mean, how many times have you heard me ask 4 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:09,720 Speaker 1: the Prime Minister on a Monday, when's the white tangy 5 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: decision going to be made? What is potarka doing with 6 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 1: this activist tribunal? You've heard me say that over and over. Well, Friday, 7 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 1: we've got the answer. He's going to have a review. 8 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:24,439 Speaker 1: I thought that's what he's been doing. That's why I 9 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:26,599 Speaker 1: thought we've been waiting so long. The impatience I was 10 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 1: showing and asking the Prime Minister is not when's he 11 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 1: announcing a review? It's when is the government snipping the 12 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:35,599 Speaker 1: wings of the taxpayer funded activists that have lived well 13 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 1: past the use by date. The tribunal was set up, 14 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: if you can believe it, fifty years ago, to settle 15 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 1: historic grievances. They have to a large extent done that. 16 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 1: The fact that some remain outstanding is an indictment on 17 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: the people who haven't settled and various governments who have 18 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 1: refused to put deadlines in place. But the majority of 19 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 1: the intent of the tribunal's over. Having ticked that box, 20 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 1: they saw a future in a lot more money and 21 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: a lot more work, offering increasingly radical views. For anyone 22 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: who was bored and angry, I wanted to take a 23 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 1: case so they could get a judgment to beat the 24 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 1: government of the day over the head with this current government, 25 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 1: perceived by the aggrieved as particularly nasty, have kept the 26 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:12,479 Speaker 1: Tribunal flat out, filing complaints and receiving damning reports. None 27 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: of it means anything because the Tribunal has no real 28 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:17,399 Speaker 1: legal standing. None of this is complex for goodness sake, 29 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: Yet Potarker has been sitting there doing lord knows what 30 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 1: to finally muster up a press release on a Friday 31 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 1: to tell us a long, long, long, long, long, long last, 32 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:29,479 Speaker 1: He's going to get a couple of people to wander 33 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:30,960 Speaker 1: off for a few months and come back with an 34 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:33,400 Speaker 1: opinion the government wants so they can do what they 35 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: should have done all along, which is call a halt 36 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,199 Speaker 1: to a circus. Once again, we remind you, no small 37 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:40,679 Speaker 1: amount of the support that got this government to power 38 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 1: was predicated on the idea that enough was enough. On 39 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: the mari over each front, delivery has been painfully slow. 40 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 1: Po Tarker has been dragging the chain. Is it possible 41 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 1: part of the reason this government has failed to fire 42 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 1: more than it has is simply because their talk was 43 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: a lot more attractive than their action. For more from 44 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: the Mike Asking Breakfast, listen live to News Talks at 45 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: B from six am weekdays, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.