Good post -- and astute comment!
Richard Woolcott is the living walking breathing illustration of the weakness in Australia's systemically-and-irreversably-flawed and essentially-fascistic system of government in which the self-annointing, self-appointing, self-enriching, self-perpetuating and abjectly parasitical so-called "permenant public service" has taken upon itself such powers as render Australia's elected politicians effectively irrelevant and actually redundant -- and the greater Australian Nation but the host to its rapacious appetite.
That Richard Woolcott and his Aussie-taxpayer and Arab-banker-enriched ilk and their obscenely elitist, anti-Australian, anti-American and anti-Human-Civilization Aussie-media mates will always follow the dictates and toe the line of Australia's and the FRee world's enemies should surprise only those too stupid to know they're being lied to and/or too mean-spirited and/or greedy to care!
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,,, Richard Woolcott and his 42 other yes men did OK out of government service, I'd say. Now they're trying to serve as apprentices to Robert Fisk. Fortunately, Australia is still one of the countries where you don't get put up against the wall and shot for having an opinion that runs against the grain. Saddam and the madmen running North Korea and Zim would have to agree with that if pushed into a corner.