A royal commission into COVID's handling would serve us well for the future
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
This month about as many people have died with COVID in Australia – more than 1,000 – as die in the whole of a bad year from influenza. “Because of extraordinarily high virus transmission, we’re getting more deaths now in this ‘enlightenment’ COVID time than in the ‘dark ages’ time,” says...