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Inquiry whitewashes the colossal mismanagement
The authors of this report are oblivious to the most fundamental big-picture cracks in our institutions revealed by the country’s pandemic response.
Gigi FosterContributorWe expected from the limited Terms of Reference set by the Albanese government that the COVID-19 Response Inquiry report would ignore the lion’s share of the abuse experienced by Australians.
The states’ actions were considered out of scope – even though it was the states that visited lockdowns, curfews, school closures, and masking rules upon their terrified populations, justifying this abuse by pointing to that very fear and baselessly claiming these policies would reduce the threat of COVID-19.
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