Disability commissioners must go due to conflict of interest

Two of the disability commissioners are facing calls to stand down due to conflict of interest.

Barbara Bennett is the previous deputy secretary of the families and communities branch of the Department of Social Services, whilst John Ryan in his role at Family and Community Services was tasked with closing down large residential institutions for people with disability such as the Westmead and Rydalmere Centres in Sydney, the Riverside Centre in Orange and the Stockton Centre in Newcastle - not to mention he's a former Liberal party politician.

It's a basic principle of integrity that the people investigating policies shouldn't be the ones who made those policies.

They need to go. 

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