Royal commissions are Australia’s highest form of public inquiry, conducted only in extreme circumstances. Commissions range in scope, recently having investigated veteran suicides, abuse and neglect of people with disabilities, and misconduct in banking. The royal commission depicted in The Turning is fictional but draws on a number of historical commissions on abuse of power.
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Royal Commission Term Timeline in The Turning
The timeline below shows where the term Royal Commission appears in The Turning. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Commission
...areas, until he starts to cross the desert, listening to the radio reports about a royal commission investigation into the police.
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...conditions local people live in. Vic asks his father if he has been following the royal commission , implying a connection to Bob’s own time as a policeman, but Bob is uninterested,...
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...give him a clear answer. Vic asks if Bob expects to be named in the royal commission , but Bob does not. He implies that there was a conspiracy of some kind...
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...even if he cannot bring himself to forgive him. He asks once more about the royal commission , but Bob again brushes it off. Vic asks Bob how he got sober, and...
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Boner McPharlin’s Moll
...Jackie drives down to the wharf, listening on the radio to the news of the royal commission on the police. She reflects on her life, paranoid, thinking about how she failed Boner,...
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