Mike Hosking: Do we need a coronial inquest?

As the coronial inquest into the mosque shooting gets underway surely one of the ironies is the fact that something that it is hoped will provide answers needs to answer a couple of questions itself.

Why does it take so long to get an inquiry underway? Is something this far down the track from the event able to give the answers people want?

One of the stories yesterday suggested the great hope was this inquiry would lead to something like this never happening again.

I'm not sure how this is possible.