CALL FOR A COVID-19 ROYAL COMMISSION

Background: Project Open Democracy

The COVID-19 pandemic, and governments’ attempts to manage it, has affected every Australian in some way:

• People have died.
• The economy was shut down.
  Schools were shut down.
• Entire cities were effectively shut down.
  Borders were closed.
• Vast quantities of taxpayers’ money have been expended.
  Military personnel have been deployed.
• Thousands of people have lost their job.
  Businesses have closed, in many cases permanently.
• Individual rights and freedoms have been curtailed or discarded.
  Unelected bureaucrats have wielded extraordinary power.
• Only a Royal Commission is likely to have the power necessary to compel the expert health advice Australian governments relied on to justify and implement pandemic measures – much of this advice has been hidden from the Australian people.

We need a Royal Commission because this inquiry must be completely transparent to the Australian public. (Agree/Disagree)

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