EBC accountable to Govt

THE EDITOR: I have read with interest various articles in the press concerning the debate on the Report of the Elections and Boundaries Commission laid in Parliament. Not so long ago many commentators including leading government politicians kept telling us that the EBC is accountable to no one. Now we know that that is not true since it accounts to the House of Representatives and must by law report to it where its reports can be debated.

I hope the public is now better informed. It is not that the EBC is accountable to no one but the Government seems as though it wants the EBC to be accountable to it. That would be a tragedy for democracy.

MATTHEW CLARKE
St James