Talk:Cole Inquiry

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	Cole Inquiry is part of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project page.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.
Article Grading: The article has not been rated for quality and/or importance yet. Please rate the article and then leave comments here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article.
WikiProject Australia To-do: edit  Here are some tasks you can do to help with WikiProject Australia: The current Australian collaboration of the fortnight article is Torres Strait Islanders. Requests: Bicentennial Heritage Trail, Daintree Reef, George Adams, Insurance in Australia, Poppy Industries, Sports Rorts affair, State Orchestra of Victoria, Yarmirr v Northern Territory Attention: Aboriginal Protection Act, Australian Payments Clearing Association, Coral Sea Islands, Qantas, Peter Foster, Reg Ansett Expand: Barossa Valley, Coorong, South Australia, List of Australian military memorials, Palm Island, Queensland, Rossiter Bay Juanita Coco Stubs: Australian Racing Museum Australian women's cricket team, Barry McKenzie, Calgardup Bay, Western Australia, Mortein, Prospect Creek, Russian Jack, Yabbying, Younghusband, South Australia Images: Darwin beer-can regatta, Darwin International Airport, Dingo Fence, Driza-Bone, Eucalyptus coolabah, Esky, Four'N Twenty Pie Quality watch: 37 FA-Class Australia articles - 21 GA-Class Australia articles.

The story really needs a decent time line ( I haven't seen any complete ones in the media) , a list of main players e.g. Bronte Moules , the person from the U.N. who examined the AWB's contracts, who was who in the AWB ,intelligence reports ( from the Australian O.N.A ) and links to the general topic of corruption ( and to its theoretical aspects : general conclusions about risk management and corruption) , whether the previous government( Keating) would have picked this up and to other countries investigations of matters related to the Volcker inquiry. BillO'Slatter 03:16, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

The section Lies Exposed appears to be sensationalised and opinionated.

Review the heading making sure that it fits with the content. In particular the lines "Either Alexander has Lied to Parliament, or on oath at the Cole enquiry which is clearly a breach of law." and "Clearly the government is negligent of knowing." seem to be portraying more opinion than fact

I agree. The editor is putting forward their own opinion, and given the whole section is entitled "lies exposed" despite Commissioner Cole not yet concluding if any lies have been told, I removed the section until such time as lies have been independently verified, rather than in the eyes of an anonymous editor. Mike2680 03:00, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV & cleanup

Whatever people may think about the current Australian Federal Government and its policy and decision history, this article is not the place to do it. Some cleanup is also needed. Therefore, I've placed the {POV} and {cleanup-date} tags at the top of the article.

I reckon an expert will have to sit down and write a nice, clear article regarding the Inquiry once it's all over. Should we ask a couple of journalists - one from News Ltd, one from Fairfax - to do this? Sentinel75 00:54, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

PS: Is this article writing the conclusions before they've been formally published? Sentinel75 00:56, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect from Cole Report

I've added a redirect from Cole Report to this page, as the report is now being referred to this way in the media. Shermozle 00:29, 28 November 2006 (UTC)