Queensland: Let's Ignore Dead Women, Just Not 'Recent' Ones
While mainstream media correctly highlight the chilling implication – 'We’ve got to listen to dead women' – they often miss the classic administrative maneuver. This isn't just about 'focusing on historical data;' it's about shifting the goalposts to avoid current accountability. Queensland's 'Broken Trust' investigation has already raised concerns about the coronial system's rigor. Sidestepping
recent deaths appears less like a research re-prioritization and more like a tactical sidestep from uncomfortable truths. Governments love to form committees and boards to address inconvenient public crises. When those bodies then decide to ignore 'recent' incidents, it begs the question: How many 'lessons learned' must be ignored before the lesson is that they never intended to learn anything at
all? The tragedy isn't just the deaths; it's the bureaucratic comfort in allowing the current ones to pile up, unaudited.