Submitted by tony kevin on October 8, 2005 - 12:52am.
"The list of examples of questionable ADF conduct over the past four
years is very telling. Let me just flesh out the list a little to
remind readers of what the substance is. All of these instances are
serious cases where the ADF command structure or senior ADF figures in
positions of authority and presumed accountability, set aside their own
service rules and codes of conduct, and their service loyalties, in
their anxiety to give the PM what he wanted of them, or what they may
have guessed he wanted of them. And of course, this is how
authoritarian unaccountable power structures operate - the subordinates
interpret what the leader wants done and they do it, without asking him
to specify exactly what he wants done - because they know he does not
want to know the detail of what was done or how it was done." Tony Kevin
