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Comcare Intro
``Those who favor or defend the accumulation of despotic power in the hands of anonymous officials sometimes suggest the question wether what is really desired by their opponents in that there should be an endless stream of litigation. The question, of course, lacks honesty. It implies, without having the courage to allege, that the aim of the despot in arrogating to himself despotic powers is to save the citizen the burden and expense of lawsuits. A person who was willing to believe that would be willing to believe anything. No, what is desired is not that there should be endless litigation but rather that litigation should be rendered as a rule unnecessary by the diffused and conscious knowledge that, in case of need, recourse might be had to an impartial public tribunal, governed by precedent, and itself liable to review.''Considering Australia is a democratic country, it is noteworthy that there are laws who have taken the right away from its citizens in a Nazi fashion, where the Public Servants are not liable for their action and also will have and command the best legal advice and lawyers at the expense of the taxpayers money. It raises also the quetsion as to what power a political person in parliament has to curb such Insurance companies. Extract from speech made in the Queensland Parliament by State Labour MP, Jim Pearce, who has been actively campaining for an inquiry into the insurance industry's biased handling of claims lodged by sufferers of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: ``while we have insurance companies overseeing the health, welfare and safety of ordinary people, there never will be fairness or justice'' |