{"id":538628,"date":"2026-03-13T22:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/538628\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:04:16","slug":"dennis-richardson-leaving-bondi-royal-commission-lays-flaws-bare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/538628\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Richardson leaving Bondi royal commission lays flaws bare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was inevitable that a royal commission the government didn\u2019t want \u2014 and only called to appease an impassioned few \u2014 would have a solid chance of being set up to fail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No shade on the antisemitism royal commissioner, Virginia Bell, who will undoubtedly do the best job possible within the unwieldy constraints she\u2019s been handed. However, if anyone was still thinking this exercise was going to run in regular shape, Dennis Richardson\u2019s bombshell departure should dispel that delusion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To recap: post-Bondi, prime minister Anthony Albanese was refusing all entreaties to call an immediate royal commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was inevitable that a royal commission the government didn\u2019t want \u2014 and only called to appease an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[192017,267007,265781,43,6606,44,84,30954,5316,41,39,42,40,213034],"class_list":["post-538628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bondi-beach-shooting","tag-bondi-beach-shooting-royal-commission","tag-dennis-richardson","tag-headlines","tag-law-and-order","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-royal-commission","tag-terrorism","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-virginia-bell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}