A three-strong panel will look into how governments responded, according to reports, but the opposition says it won’t have enough powers
In May, Albanese said: “Covid is still amongst us. What I’ve said is that when we are confident that we’re through those issues, then we’ll examine it.”
“They are not delivering a royal commission and there is only one reason why, because a royal commission into Covid would have to look at national cabinet, have to look at how that functioned to keep us all safe through a global pandemic, but then look at the different jurisdictions’ reactions,” she told Sky News on Wednesday.
Peter Collignon, an infectious disease expert at Australian National University, welcomed news of an inquiry into Covid, saying he hoped it examined “all issues from various sides” of governmental responses.
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