27 November 2018 - There is good reason why the building that houses Australia's powerful regulator of drugs and medical devices is known as "Fortress Symonston". It stands in the Canberra suburb of Symonston and is impenetrable and immune from liability.

"We don't know what's happening inside the walls," says Associate Professor Wendy Bonython, who has a special interest in medical device regulation and consumer protection.

A law academic at the University of Canberra, she says the Therapeutic Goods Administration is inward-looking. It is not keen to engage with the research or university sector where it could pick up good intelligence, or with consumers with whom it could build a useful rapport, she says.

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