There’s cringeworthy content,then there’s the dross that this consultancy giant served up to its staff the other day.
The end of this month marks four years since the World Health Organisation declared China’s COVID-19 outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.
The Burnet Institute says global COVID-19 deaths data underscores Australia’s success in saving lives in the first two years of the pandemic,but the “living with COVID” approach brought an 18-fold increase in the death rate.
Lawyers who have spent years trying to overturn unlawful fines issued during the pandemic also said the federal government had taken a “nothing to see here” approach.
The federal treasurer said he did not accept claims the review was a “light touch” exercise that should have been set up to investigate all aspects of the response.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s decision wilfully ignores states and territories,the jurisdictions where decisions in COVID years affected people the most.
The weak response from the prime minister sits uncomfortably with what his own Labor MPs were saying less than 18 months ago.
The new federal inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic is none of the things Prime Minister Anthony Albanese claimed for it – deep,thorough and independent.
An inquiry will examine Australia’s response to a once-in-a-generation pandemic. Here are the issues it must probe to prepare Australia for the next killer bug.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has accused Labor of running a protection racket after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed that unilateral decisions made by first ministers were ruled out of the inquiry’s terms of reference.
The Albanese government’s decision to hold an inquiry into the impacts of COVID-19 instead of a more powerful royal commission is negligently short-sighted and seriously undermines Australia’s ability to fully learn from the pandemic years.