#auspol #covid19aus can we remember Australia, that during much of 2020, when the federal government could…

#auspol #covid19aus can we remember Australia, that during much of 2020, when the federal government could have been improving quarantine and getting the best vaccine procurement deal for Australia, it…/1 https://t.co/YBVFcjZtxr

1) Dissolved the national parliament and replaced it with an unaccountable National Cabinet, whose deliberations are never published. 2) The true function of this Cabinet was to deal the feds into the pandemic discussion, where they had little constitutional role. Once there…/2

…they used it to persistently introduce economic counter-narratives to the public health narratives. 3) Established a National Covid Commission to replace parliament as the deliberative body to determine future directions post the pandemic. A commission…/3

…stacked with corporate heavyweights from vested interest groups, heavily skewed to the fossil fuel industry. A clear attempt to prosecute an anti-climate change agenda and other toxic policies, under cover of the pandemic. /4

The government is keen now to talk about the ‘benefit of hindsight’. Let’s talk about the benefit of foresight. Like the foresight to actually address the global emergency we were in. Rather than use it as a smokescreen to ram toxic policies through an absent accountability. /end