Opinion

COVID-19 inquiry betrays all who worked hard to overcome the crisis

The Morrison government had Robo-debt as its shame. The Albanese government has some way to go, but will its greatest shame be deliberately failing seek the key lessons about how to deal with the next pandemic?

Peter StrongContributor

Sep 24, 2023 – 3.20pm

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The Albanese government has decided to learn as little as possible about how to deal with the next pandemic. This is an absolute betrayal of all those who worked hard to overcome the COVID-19 crisis, which is still at large. This includes hundreds of thousands of small business people who fought to stay open and keep their employees during COVID – and the industry bodies who fought to help them.

This failure will only be on show when the next pandemic arrives.

Peter Strong is a small business advocate at Community Economics and a former chief executive of the Council of Small Business of Australia.