The role of COAG, the Council Of Australian Governments, rightly comes under close scrutiny in an excellent research paper by Lynsey Blayden on behalf of the NSW Parliamentary Library. She says, politely, what Civil Liberties Australia has been saying for years: COAG is a blot on Australian governance, a corrupting, non-Constitutional and unaccountable abuse of how Australia is managed. Here’s the executive summary, and links to the paper and other material.