Carol Mills is a decent person who has been left by the Speaker in an impossible position

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The only thing that Mills is guilty of is applying for a position for which she must have known she was under-qualified.  While she clearly had the managerial credentials and ability to run the House of Commons Service, she is a career civil servant, not a parliamentary chamber official."
"An irony of this sorry affair is that had Mills applied to become Clerk of the Australian House of Representatives, she would have been ruled ineligible. "