Shadow health minister Anne Ruston called on Australians to question Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s inquiry into the former Coalition government’s response to COVID-19.
The independent inquiry, announced on Thursday, stopped short of a royal commission which could compel witnesses and probe states and territories on their actions at the time.
“ should be asking those Premiers ‘what have you got to hide, why won’t you let Australia and particularly people who live in the state have some transparency about the actions they took during the pandemic’,” she said. “I would also call on all of those sectors that were really, really hardly hit by COVID. Everybody was impacted.”
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the inquiry is expected to deliver its final report within 12 months by September 30, 2024. Picture: Sky News Australia
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