AMA joins human rights commissioner, legal and health experts in criticising narrow terms of reference announced by federal Labor
“New South Wales was criticised for not going harder with restrictions, like Victoria, but NSW has done better if you look at excess deaths or covid deaths,” he said. “Queensland allowed people outside more but border lockdowns impacted people in northern NSW.
Prof Nancy Baxter, a clinical epidemiologist and the head of University of Melbourne school of population and global health, said she understood the government didn’t “want this to be bigger than Ben Hur but we are likely to miss important learnings”. “If the purpose of the commonwealth inquiry is to identify lessons learned to improve Australia’s preparedness for future pandemics, then excluding unilateral state actions is a major oversight to say the least,” Willox said.
The narrow approach has been defended by epidemiologist Prof Catherine Bennett, one of the three independent reviewers, and Prof Allen Cheng – the director infectious diseases at MonashBennett told Sky News that states had already held inquiries and the commonwealth inquiry would “pull all of that together, rather than look at the particular parts of this, to take a systems approach”.
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