The inquiry was an election promise, but it was never really clear and still isn't what the goal was. In the case of the murdered women over 80 per cent have been solved,and like any other murders, the answers are there. The missing women are a different story. Every year thousands of people go missing, both aboriginal and non-aboriginal, and most eventually are located or at least get in touch with someone. But many do not for any number of reasons, most often they don't want to be found and return to their former life. It's not clear what the inquiry could do about this, as there are no answers only speculation.There was never a promise that there would be ground breaking results from this inquiry, nor was there any mechanism that could somehow provide answers to individual questions by those who participated in the hearings. Yet somehow an expectation developed whether well founded or not, and as result the inquiry is seen as not living up to expectations. An impossible situation.