Banking inquiry - Video-link issue could be final nail

THERE are growing perceptions that the banking inquiry is a dead duck. From its inception, the probe by politicians, most of whom lack financial expertise, has been viewed by the public with jaundiced eyes. 

Almost without exception, the star performers, including former political leaders, greedy bankers, financial regulators, and civil servants, have wrung their hands in an exasperating blend of guilt-cum-apology, then walked into the sunset with gold-bar pensions intact.

In no way have they been subjected to the kind of forensic grilling that might be expected to unearth the form of evidence that might justify a probe.