Greg Smith Defends NSW DPP

Some of the codswallop presented in yesterday's Sun Herald about Nicholas Cowdery and the DPP has been rebutted by the Shadow Attorney General Mr Greg Smith. In the Sydney Morning Herald Smith sees the recent joust about the DPP as part of a systematic vendetta campaign to remove Mr Cowdery from office.

Smith quite rightly says that Mr Hatzistergos has failed to publicly praise the Crown Prosecutors at the DPP, and that his negative remarks in public merely undermines staff morale. How true! Employees right across the NSW Attorney General's Department and its agencies seem to be enduring much.

Methinks Mr Glanfield will warble a different tune when he has Mr Smith as his next boss in 2011 or better still he could be gone from the department before then.