Why does the ADA place so much emphasis on being independent?
As a national public-interest guardian body our independence (including our strict apoliticism in motivation, structure and activities) is essential to our role and operations. Our governance and financing arrangements (discussed in detail in several questions above) are designed to preserve our independence and the consequent integrity and transparency of our public-interest guardianship efforts. The ADA is an entirely independent and publicly transparent community organisation. We are not part of, or affiliated with, any government department or agency (including the defence force). We are also not subordinate to or otherwise affiliated with any other public organisation, political party or commercial grouping. We seek to represent the long-term public interest and take great care to avoid the potential for, or appearance of, conflicts of interest with the positions espoused by political, commercial, industrial, bureaucratic or other real and perceived vested interests. We do not pay
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