NOT REQUIRED TO SMILE POLITELY

CAN Ross Grant (CP, 27/01) imagine what it must have been like to be raped repeatedly by an authority figure as a child and then forced to smile politely and pretend that everything was fine?

When Kenneth Hayne refused to smile or even shake the hand of Josh Frydenberg as he handed over his report into banking malfeasance he may have suspected that this government’s response was only going to be pious announcements.

Surely Grace Tame is allowed to make the same judgement?

Fawning and fetlock tugging to authority is surely inappropriate on Australia Day.