Column - No one this biased should head a royal commission. Gooda must go

THE decision of Attorney-General George Brandis to make Mick Gooda a royal commissioner is a farce and a scandal.

How can Gooda, a professional Aboriginal activist, possibly be an impartial judge, jointly presiding over a royal commission into juvenile justice in the Northern Territory?

How can he be considered impartial when he’s already declared the key defendant guilty — attacking the Northern Territory Government as incompetent, vicious, dead to...