Candidates: One male, two females.

Recommendations: Male demonstrated experience, leadership and team building. Excellent grasp of facts with sense of humour. Recommend. 

Female  One. Demonstrated experience. Presentation rapid with little attempt to engage "panel". Arrived late with no apology. Fail.

Female Two. Failed to demonstrate experience. Arrived extremely late towards end of session. Observed to engage in aggressive discussion with "panel" member during break which raised doubts as to capacity to stay calm and factual under pressure. Fail minus.. 

Recommend that the male is selected and when giving feedback to other candidates, strongly recommend they study IPART policies and procedures. 

Narelle Milligan, North Shore

National Child Protection Week runs from 4 – 10 September.  In this week we take the time to reflect on child protection issues and promote the wellbeing of our young people. 

Reports of child abuse are overwhelming and give witness to the lack of accountability for adults who abuse young people. Sadly, some communities are looking the other way, ignoring the abuse of children because this is the easiest option.

People don’t want to get involved in notifying assaults on our young people because of the fear of the consequences from the perpetrators. We have lost the ability for adults to serve as collective parents for all the young people in our neighbourhood.

Nothing is more important than protecting our vulnerable children from abuse and neglect.

Victims endure a lifetime of psychological and emotional distress, they often turn to drugs to kill the pain of abuse, attempt suicide, self-mutilate and have major trust issues.

We, as a society, must ensure that we provide our children with a safe and supportive environment, so that they have the opportunity to reach their full potential.

The first step is for us, as adults, to report the abuse of our young people. Every adult must be responsible for every child, whether you are their friend, family member, the local shop keeper, doctor or anyone else that is part of a child’s life.

Organisations that work with young people need to report abuse complaints. There should be no exception to mandatory reporting.

We need to listen to what is happening to our young people, speak up and get help when our children are in trouble.

Father Chris Riley

CEO and Founder at Youth Off The Streets

Talk about treating the public purse with absolute disdain.

Europe has just issued an historic ruling, serving up a 13 billion Euro tax bill to Apple Inc. 

At the very same time, the Turnbull government is quietly making plans to give corporate tax dodgers control of Australia's corporate ownership database by selling it to private enterprise. 

This critical piece of public infrastructure, which is used by journalists, academics and advocacy groups to expose rampant tax dodging and shady shell companies, is the last thing we want to see pawned off into the hands of the private sector.

Placing this essential ASIC database under corporate control would seriously hinder Australian investigations into corporate tax dodging.

It would allow corporate tax dodgers to continue their nefarious activities by keeping the public behind a wall of silence and ignorance.

Patrick Lee, Port Macquarie