Sky News Northern Australia Correspondent Matt Cunningham discusses the Albanese government commissioning at least 140 reviews, consultation papers, summits and inquiries from the past 12 months.
“The sort of review depends on who exactly they’re reviewing,” Mr Cunningham told Sky News host Peta Credlin.
“If they are reviewing something that the former government from the other side has done then it is a forensic review that wants to dig up the dirt and find out exactly what went wrong. “But if they are doing a review for their own purpose, it’s a very different kind of review and it’s a review that gives them the answers they want to be able to … give them cover to implement the sort of policy that they want.”
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