Last year, it sacked the head of the supposedly independent tax authority.

The Commission of Audit was announced as a supposedly independent body.

But she was removed by changing the law in a way that looks like interference in a supposedly independent authority.

Only an uneducated person.'" And of course the media reinforced those negatives, he said, as did those " supposedly independent consumer organizations."

AMP admitted to charging customers fees without providing a service, then tampering with a supposedly independent report to a regulator about the practice.

Another was Treasury acquiescence in then-Finance Minister Steven Joyce's apparent electioneering at the release of the supposedly independent pre-election economic and fiscal update.

The misconduct could include management and the board's role in changing a supposedly independent report about the matter, the royal commission heard on Friday.

Montgomery said the money spent by the supposedly independent Business Leaders of Arizona was used to buy television ads against Horne's Democratic opponent, Felicia Rotellini.

The former US attorney in New York is conducting a supposedly independent ongoing investigation into the bidding processes for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments.

Supposedly independent institutions have experienced a revolving door of senior officials.