Police, Nurses, and Employers Among Critics of Australia’s COVID Response

Published on February 1, 2024

Police, nurses, and disability groups say state and territory leaders should be subject to any inquiry into the country’s response to the pandemic. “The decisions made by state and territory premiers, their cabinets, their chief health officers, and the Commonwealth government must be a focus,” the Queensland Nurses and Midwives Union (QNMU) said, in a submission to a Senate Committee. The Committee is looking into the terms of reference for a Royal Commission into the government’s response, in contrast to the government’s recently announced inquiry. “The Commonwealth government’s decision-making processes, particularly at the start of the pandemic and around the vaccine rollout, were not always clear, transparent, or communicated well. At times it felt that decisions were made on the run without processes in place to support the actions,” said the union....

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