Report by Labor-chaired committee found Australia fared better than other countries, but there were ‘significant failures’ on quarantine and vaccine supply
Australia needs a royal commission into the Covid response and should consider new laws to crack down on medical misinformation, the Senate’s Covid committee has recommended.
“The government has also failed to address the serious and dangerous vaccine misinformation promoted within the government’s own parliamentary ranks.”federal government to intervene in the aged care work value caseIt called for a review of the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s powers “to address health misinformation during public health campaigns or emergency responses”.
Gallagher did not commit Labor, if elected, to setting up a Covid royal commission, noting the Senate report was not opposition policy.in August, Morrison said he would not be “drawn into those things” because “we’re managing the pandemic right now, and this pandemic still has quite a long way to go”.
She cited the Morrison government’s failures on “quarantine and vaccines”, which had caused “flow-on consequences”.
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