Labor’s finance spokeswoman, Katy Gallagher, wants her party to call a royal commission into Australia’s pandemic response should it win government. auspol covid19
Opposition finance spokeswoman and committee chair Katy Gallagher said there were some questions that would not be answered without a royal commission’s powers to compel witnesses and production of documents.
But Coalition senators James Paterson, the committee’s deputy chair, and Perin Davey did not endorse the recommendations, including the call for a royal commission. Nor is it formal Labor Party policy as it heads into an election. Its report discusses the role of some Coalition MPs – including George Christensen and Gerard Rennick – in, but the committee also heard from First Nations communities that had been sent flyers en masse from United Australia Party’s Clive Palmer denigrating vaccines. The TGA’s powers at the moment are in effect limited to meeting people and discussing concerns about any claims made.
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