Mr Henry goes to estimates

Just watching treasury secretary Ken Henry copping the best that Helen Coonan has to offer in Senate Estimates …. it’s a clash of worlds, Coonan and Abetz grappling for points of pure politics, Henry struggling to keep his feet on a higher plane of policy and decisions. Coonan persists, Henry slaps down … ‘While I would not normally tolerate questions such as this one and in my 24 years of appearing at these committees I never have …’. The Governor of the RBA and the Secretary of the Treasury were on “one mind”. Abetz and Coonan won’t let it go. It’s unseemly. And not much to do with anything beyond a cynical piece of nitpicking in pursuit of advantage. It’s King Kong v. the bi-planes, says the learned Mr Keane. Quite so.