After a week of accusations, defences and counter-accusations, the two major parties were locked into a conflict which troubled an increasing number of onlookers who started to question the assumptions adopted by both sides. For example, there was a cartoon by Pryor in the Canberra Times, which had politicians from both sides fighting against what looked like a wall. But if you looked to the top of the picture, they were like tiny figures, overhung by huge shoes of ordinary men and women. It wasn't a wall, but a gutter, and the message was that our political leaders were fighting in the gutter . Long before this gesture by someone implicated in questionable practices, the public had started to question the political priorities of people who would put aside important issues such as Wik to spend a week debating this issue.
Evaluations can be qualitative or quantitative.
Perhaps audit reviews are more likely to stick to quantitative evaluation, and open inquiry reviews are more likely to ask qualitative questions. The method chosen depends on what you want to know. In that case, you might go for multiple choice questions. Then rating type questionnaires, using a Likert scale will be needed. If people may not have strong feeling, there may be little point in forcing them into choices.