The mysterious cases of disappearing parliamentary inquiry and audit recommendations

It would be lovely to think that the many recommendations from parliamentary inquiries, audit reports and royal commissions the government of the day had agreed to implement would come to pass.

Some do. Many others fall by the wayside. Remember the banking royal commission? And just recently the robodebt inquiry, whose 56 recommendations the government has accepted or accepted “in principle”. Some require statutory changes; others a lot of internal work, especially in Services Australia. A progress report would be good in the not-too-distant future.