which was later discredited. Coronial inquiries are limited in their scope. No person appearing before the coroner has a right to subpoena evidence without permission from the coroner, and in this inquest Walsh rejected all applications. In 1984, the Attorney-General, Paul Landa, established an inquiry to investigate the convictions of Dunn, Alister and Anderson. The inquiry was similar to a Royal Commission, and was headed by Justice Wood. Richard Seary was in England at the time and did not take part, but after the inquiry indicated that he was willing to take part. Justice Wood reconvened the inquiry and it ran through to February 1985. The result was that Justice Wood recommended the pardoning of the three, and they were released in 1985. (The inquiry did not directly cover the Hilton Bombing.) The pardoned trio received compensation from the NSW Government. Alister ploughed his compensation money into land on Bridge Creek Road near Maleny, Queensland, which would become his home, and also the site of the Ananda Marga River School. According to Paul Alister's later assertions, points that emerged during the inquiry included: Tapes of conversations between Richard Seary and his Special Branch contact showed that Seary had originally suggested that the Hare Krishna group might have been responsible for the Hilton bombing Police ignored the Hare Krishna suggestion and told Seary to spy on Ananda Marga. Seary infiltrated Ananda Marga one month later than he had originally stated in court Seary knew how to obtain explosives illegally, although he had said in court that he did not Seary had told police about the alleged Cameron bombing plan five days earlier than he originally stated Dr Emanuel Fischer, who had done a psychiatric assessment of Seary, said he was schizoid and psychopathic Seary's girlfriend Wendy said that Seary had told her that he had thought they were going to Robert Cameron's house to put up posters, and he had been surprised that explosives were brought along Wendy said that Seary had not volunteered to spy on Ananda Marga but had been pressured by the police Seary's friend Dok said that Seary had a plan to bomb an abattoir when he had been in the Hare Krishnas Paul Alister later speculated about Richard Seary's motives, saying he was a "wild card" because he seemed to have his own agenda. He stated that Seary seemed to have a mixture of motives for