Petition for Royal Commission

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URGENT CALL FOR A ROYAL COMMISSION INTO THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT’S PANDEMIC RESPONSE

Launched on change.org – 25th February 2022

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“Globally, individual lives of loved ones continue to be tragically lost in the COVID-19 pandemic and others are sadly permanently and temporarily affected and restricted. We acknowledge and pay our deep respects to all those who have died during the pandemic, the loved ones who are left grieving, those who have had their lives and livelihoods restricted, frontline workers, and communities who have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Australia is, and has been, experiencing an appalling loss of lives. Australians are living with the debilitating effects of personal and collective grief which so far, is disenfranchised by the actions of the current government.

We are a group of people in Australia who tragically lost loved ones in the pandemic. We have done our research and distilled findings into the following key points, identifying some of the areas where the government failed to lead the way in protecting Australians during the global COVID-19 pandemic of 2019 – 2022.

We are voicing an urgent call for an independent inquiry or royal commission, thoroughly investigating the Australian government’s COVID-19 pandemic response including analysis of decision-making and communication approaches into these areas of response, covering but not limited to:

Delayed and limited government choices of vaccine procurement for Australia, subsequent supply issues, vaccine ‘strollout’, inequities in access to vaccine doses, the ignoring of international evidence, expert advice and official recommendations.
Mis-management of COVID-19 isolation quarantine facilities both for international and local travellers.
Lack of support for the disability sector, including those with a disability being treated like second-class citizens, disrupted phases of the vaccine rollout for those experiencing a disability, and individuals residing in disability housing being left highly vulnerable to infection with COVID-19.
Failing elderly, vulnerable Australians, stripping them of dignity, with 742 tragic deaths in aged care homes in the first six weeks of 2022 as one example of many throughout the pandemic.
We deplore the lack of recognition for people who have tragically died in the global COVID-19 pandemic due to COVID-19, vaccines, suicide, and other causes directly linked to the government pandemic response and global pandemic. Including, the failure of government to recognise and acknowledge confirmed serious adverse reactions from one type of COVID-19 vaccine which tragically caused the deaths of 11 people in Australia. We are not ‘anti-vax’.

Additionally, we call on the inquiry or royal commission to investigate the following:

Lack of preparedness for a global pandemic which experts warned would likely happen.
Lack of planning, forward thinking and preparation throughout 2019 – 2022 in the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Lack of planning for soaring hospital admissions due to COVID-19.
Chain of decision-making in government pandemic response that caused needless and preventable deaths.
Chaotic rollout of vaccines in aged care facilities, leaving elderly residents and staff vulnerable.
Politicisation of medical information and health advice.
Approaches to repetitive messaging including the government and media’s use of blanket health advice and slogans.
Government authored creation of ‘potential’ and ‘uncertain’ data tables to enable interpretation of risk-benefit assessment to curtain vaccine supply issues.
Failure of government to communicate serious, vital information regarding individual health risks based on age and gender associated with the government’s choice of vaccines.
Advertisement campaigns for vaccines aimed at younger Australians when they could not access a vaccine suitable for their age group due to vaccine rollout failures.
Lack of accountability for inconsistencies in approaches to gaining ‘informed consent’ and gaslighting the Australian public in regards to responsibility for government response failures.
Communication of incomparable, inapplicable risk metaphors regarding a specific type of COVID-19 vaccine. Using fearmongering language in messaging to pressure Australians to meet vaccine targets which were low due to government failures, by comparing two independent events; risk of death from confirmed cases of COVID-19 (a transmissable virus) to risk of death from serious adverse reactions to one type of COVID-19 vaccine (human-made, administered by government).
Government mandated lockdowns.
Discrimination against those who died and dismissing individual deaths by reporting humans only as statistics, reporting statistics in a positive light, and minimising the value of individual lives lost by stating that particularly, if they were elderly, or had underlying health conditions, that they ‘would have died anyway’.
Decisions around mask mandates and other precautionary measures to reduce transmission of COVID-19.
Failure to supply an adequate surge workforce for aged care and chronic understaffing of hospitals. Covid-positive nurses asked to attend hospital shifts due to staffing shortages.
Lack of support for frontline healthcare workers.
Lack of supply of appropriate PPE for aged care and healthcare workers.
Lack of supply of rapid antigen tests, ignoring advice from experts to procure supplies and initially in an outbreak, no way for people to record positive results so no way to contact trace cases.
Lack of support for immunocompromised people in government-led advice about the pandemic, with the Prime Minister making a [general] statement in December 2021: “If you feel uncomfortable about going out in other public spaces, well, you can choose to stay home,” urging people to take ‘personal responsibility’ and: “If you’re feeling uncertain, then it’s not compulsory to go out. It’s not compulsory not to wear a mask either.”
Lack of follow-up, support, or funding for grief counselling and mental health support from the government.
Lack of commitment to invest in research for many areas which would put Australia in an informed position to respond to future pandemics.
Three years into the pandemic, the current government again, provisionally approved COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca/Vaxzevria for anyone over the age of 18, failing to implement age-limits, ignoring expert advice and international data on risks of fatalities from serious adverse reactions which have tragically caused 78 deaths in the UK, 11 in Australia and more internationally. We acknowledge the importance of [safe] vaccines [suitable for specific age groups] in responding to the pandemic.

We are not affiliated with any group, political party, charity, or religious organisation. However, we note that in Australia, some politicians and upcoming election candidates have started to discuss the possibility of an inquiry or royal commission into the government’s pandemic response.

It’s a start, but we ask our communities and representatives at all levels of government to make it a top priority by joining our urgent call.

Australians, along with the world, are grieving now…

and we need the current government’s reckless, chaotic, short-sighted actions to be held to account, now. We also need the government to show us through the independent inquiry or royal commission that they have learned the lessons, for next time. We request that all findings of the independent inquiry or royal commission be transparently communicated to the public.

We need more actions like that of Susan Templeman, Member for Macquarie, who on 23rd November 2021, spoke in Australian parliament on behalf of a Blue Mountains family whose loved one died as a result of taking the AstraZeneca vaccine and was one of [now] eleven tragic deaths the TGA reports as linked to AstraZeneca:

Hansard transcript, Susan Templeman, Member for Macquarie:

“COVID-19: Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome

Ms TEMPLEMAN (Macquarie) (16:06): What they’d like is for [their loved one’s] death and that of others to be recognised in parliament. They’d like a public memorial acknowledging those who died during the pandemic, both as a result of the disease and of the vaccines and public recognition at major gatherings in the form of a minute’s silence. They’d like a vaccine compensation scheme that proactively reaches out to people who’ve lost a family member, one with specific time frames, relying on an expert legal and medical panel that considers impact statements from family members and treats them generously. What they want is reasonable. They also want to see the Prime Minister acknowledge those who have died or been disabled through the vaccination program. They want recognition by the Prime Minister of what these people have experienced and what their families have lost. They have lost this for the sake of the rest of the community.”

We will not forget what happened, no matter how many media pivots and distractions the current government reactively refocuses on.

Australians deserve a thorough and independent investigation into the government failures which caused many preventable deaths in the global COVID-19 pandemic of 2019 – 2022.”

#auspandemicinquiry

Join the call by signing the petition.

What you can do
There are 3 actions we invite you to consider:

1. Writing to your local member, or any politician/election candidate at a local/state/federal level. In the letter/e-mail/open letter, you could share how the government’s response to the pandemic has affected you personally, ask what their position is on a royal commission into COVID-19, share the petition and invite them to make a commitment, set a date, and make it policy to hold a royal commission or independent inquiry into the government’s response to COVID-19 in Australia.

https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Guidelines_for_Contacting_Senators_and_Members

2. Sharing the petition on social media, with friends, neighbours, colleagues.

3. Writing to media outlets about your lived experience, write an open letter to the Prime Minister, open up a conversation, speak about it.

Latest News & 6 reasons why we are calling for a royal commission

Wherever this finds you today – we thank you for supporting the urgent call for a royal commission or independent inquiry into Australia’s COVID-19 pandemic response.

Here are 6 reasons (amongst many) we are calling for a royal commission:

1. We need a Royal Commission because of the extensive power they have, to compel witnesses to give evidence.

Why? a) The decisions that were made about what vaccines to order, when, what deals were done, were made at the very highest levels in government. The people who made those decisions need to be held to account and lessons learned about how we can do better. Private sessions with a commissioner for the bereaved and others affected, would be valuable, to learn from lived experiences.

2. We need a Royal Commission because it seems that there was political interference in the way that the medical evidence was interpreted, received and used.

Why? ATAGI held strongly to a risk-benefit position that AstraZeneca should be reserved for over 60s, in line with overseas countries, many of whom suspended the use of AstraZeneca following deaths related to the vaccine. Also, there is a very troubling aspect that good health advice indicating higher risk levels for younger women was ignored. The senior advisers and politicians who made those decisions and gave the public strong advice and encouragement, need to be called to account as they ignored chief health officers’ advice, and we need to learn the lessons so that this cannot happen again. A Royal Commission has the power to bring those people to give evidence.

3. We want to see sustained improvements in how such dreadful things such as the Covid19 pandemic are handled in the future. Royal Commissions have been effective in bringing about significant change. (Banking Royal Commission, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse are two recent examples).

4. The medical profession need to be able to tell their side of the story, and for it to be heard. Doctors treating Katie expressed dismay at the decision making that places such precious lives at risk, with devastating consequences for our family. We want them to be heard and a royal commission will offer them the protection to do speak freely.

5. The COVID-19 pandemic has killed thousands of people in Australia, left the country with a trillion dollars of debt, continues to kill hundreds of people, many are suffering with grief, loss, long covid, consequences of adverse reactions, mental health issues, and Australians were left stranded. It is a matter of the highest public importance to ask questions, investigate, analyse and assess these and many more issues to learn from failures and mistakes, and most importantly to improve for the future. We note that a recent parliamentary committee recommends it occur also:

“Recommendation 17 5.1 The committee recommends that a Royal Commission be established to examine Australia’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic to inform preparedness for future COVID-19 waves and future pandemics.” – read the report.

6. Katie is in our hearts and at the centre of this call, she herself was an activist, advocate, humanist, and humanitarian. She united people for positive change, engaged in actions like petitions, spoke loudly and proudly about climate change, women’s/people’s rights, and spoke up for those whose voices were not heard. Now that she no longer has her voice, we carry her legacy with us in this call for a thorough, independent, non-partisan inquiry in the form of a royal commission.

In loving memory of Katie Lees
On the nine month anniversary of tragically losing our beloved Katie Lees, her family and friends launched a living memorial website, a shared space evolving over time, where people can contribute words, images, audio, video honouring Katie’s life and keep up to date with things that are happening in loving memory of Katie. As much as we are devastated by her horrific, needless, appalling and unnecessary death, and the enormous loss that is without words, we mostly want everyone to remember her life.

We hope that you get to know the wonderful, imaginative, vibrant young woman that our Katie was. By reading, watching and listening, we hope she will continue to inspire, amuse, inform, and be a guiding light for us all. Everything on this site is reflective of who she was, dedicated to her legacy and only a snapshot of her brilliant, precious life and the future that was so unjustly taken from her.

KatieLees.com

Share a tribute, or contact us here.

Katie Lees – Sydney Morning Herald front page and editorial
It is with sad relief, for the worst reasons possible, that our Katie Lees was on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald on Thursday 19th May, 2022. Our sincere and heartfelt thanks to Mary Ward, Lucy Carroll, Louise Kennerley and the Sydney Morning Herald for hearing Katie’s story and our call for a royal commission, respectfully listening and sitting with us in our heartbreaking grief.

‘‘She wanted to do her bit’: Parents call for COVID inquiry after death of daughter’ By Mary Ward and Lucy Carroll, with James Massola, photography by Louise Kennerley: ““She was a very community-minded person,” Lees’ mother, Penny, said. “The general message at the time was ‘if you don’t get vaccinated we are never going to get out of lockdown’. She wanted to do her bit to get society moving along.””
Read the article here.

Katie is also mentioned in SMH Editor Bevan Shields’ 19th May 2022 editorial calling for a royal commission: ‘Both parties must commit to an inquiry into the pandemic’ – The Herald’s View by Bevan Shields, Sydney Morning Herald: “Only a royal commission will give Australians confidence that we will be ready the next time disaster strikes.”

Update: Katie Lees Fellowship, Flight Path Theatre
Thank you to everyone who contributed to Flight Path Theatre for the Katie Lees Fellowship. A shortlist has been announced and the Winner of the inaugural Katie Lees Fellowship will be announced next week, please visit Flight Path Theatre for the announcement.

Moving forward with our call for change
We continue to reach out to election candidates, politicians and experts, voicing our call for a royal commission or thorough independent inquiry, and encourage you to join us. You can find representatives here. Please do let us know if you have had any success by contacting us here.

Please continue to share the petition, Katie’s story, and speak up about your own stories of loss and suffering from the pandemic – we are all in this together.

Join the conversation and see media coverage of our call
@pandemicinquiry on Twitter @pandemicroyalcommission on Instagram.

Until a royal commission is called, here are other ways to have your say:

– Share a tribute, share a story of loss in a safe space, leave a message for Katie Lees on katielees.com here.

– COVID Review Submissions, accepting 1500 words, closing 31 July 2022: participate in informing the review here.

– National COVID-19 bereavement project (This project has been funded by the Australian Government Medical Research Future Fund): “Participating involves completing an anonymous online survey that asks questions about your experience of bereavement, the kinds of support (if any) you have received and wanted, and your own strategies to manage your grief. The survey takes about 20 minutes.”
Participate here.

Media coverage (current and retrospective):
Since we launched the petition on 25th February 2022, we observe these articles in the media – sharing them with you does not mean we endorse the commentary or media outlets – we simply want to keep you informed of current discussions.

‘PM won’t back probe into pandemic handling’ by Finbar O’Mallon, Blue Mountains Gazette: “Prime Minister Scott Morrison won’t back a royal commission inquiry into Australia’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.”

‘Grattan on Friday: A royal commission into COVID’s handling would serve us well for the future’ by Michelle Grattan, 27th January 2022, The Conversation: “But the case for a commission is overwhelming, especially to inform us about what needs to be done to ready for pandemics in the future. It is needed to investigate all fronts: health, economics and governance.”

‘Scott Morrison on COVID-19, climate change and mental health’, Triple J Hack: “Hack asks Scott Morrison about the impact of the pandemic on young people, including vaccine stumbles and access to COVID disaster payments.”

The Saturday Paper has taken down their paywall until election day – we encourage everyone to visit or revisit their coverage of the pandemic, and consider subscribing, or not. As it relates to Katie Lees and our call for a royal commission, we recommend these articles:

‘Exclusive: Morrison ignored chief health officers’ advice’ by Rick Morton, The Saturday Paper: “On Monday, chief health officers urged Scott Morrison to drop the AstraZeneca vaccine entirely. Instead, he broadened its usage.”

‘Scott Morrison and the truth’ by John Hewson, The Saturday Paper: “The quote from the fragile egg certainly encapsulates Morrison’s approach to the management of Covid-19. By any assessment it has been a massive failure of governance, which has had very significant economic and social consequences, divided our nation, and increased uncertainty and insecurity, especially as to the way forward.”

‘Spins and needles’ by Rachel Withers, The Monthly: “The PM wants us to take responsibility for the vaccination choices he has left us with”

Thank you for your time, stay safe, be kind, be loud and unite.

Update: 9th April 2022

Thank you to each and every precious person for signing. Seeing people coming together in this call for their own reasons and to honour the lives of loved ones is a remarkable honour and a privilege to be part of. We sincerely appreciate your time, your commitment, your comments, and your courage to stand with us when sometimes it seems like the world is moving on. Know that by joining this call for an independent inquiry or royal commission into the current Australian government’s COVID-19 pandemic response, you are part of creating change.

As you may or may not know, we are family and friends who have sadly lost several loved ones during the pandemic, including tragically losing our Katie Lees on 4th August 2021 due to vaccine-induced thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (VITTS) caused by the first dose of the COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine (as stated on her death certificate), she was aged 34.

“Katie’s energy and creativity brought so much joy, hope and happiness to the world. She inspired us, brought us together and made us laugh. We will now live how she lived – spontaneous, caring, passionate, disruptive, creative and in the joy of the moment.”

Katie believed in actions like petitions and the power of people joining together, and using their voices to unite for justice, loudly & proudly.

We are not affiliated
To re-iterate, we are not affiliated with any political parties, groups, charities or religious organisations, however it’s become clear that we need to make a point of also stating that we are not ‘anti-vax’, far from it. We support the vaccination program.

Shifting focus
We welcome any inquiry into the government’s COVID-19 pandemic response. This week, a ‘short and sharp’ inquiry into Australia’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic was launched by three philanthropic groups, working with non-profit data and an economic analysis group, due to report on results in September 2022. Please see the end of this message for media coverage.

Whereas before, we were calling for an independent inquiry or royal commission – we are now shifting our focus to call for a royal commission into the government’s COVID-19 pandemic response. There are many complex layers to unpack (as summarised in the petition), thoroughly analyse and learn from, and many individuals and families have been affected. There needs to be an official inquiry that is required to listen to the lived experiences of bereaved families and people affected to inform and learn from failures and mistakes made.

Upcoming Federal Election
Although the value of any person’s life should be above party politics, and media rhetoric, we do happen to be living in a time just now in Australia, where whilst we are calling for action, a federal election will be held in May 2022.

As you know, everyone’s vote, everyone’s voice matters – a lot, for many, many different topics and many reasons.

For the purposes of this call to action, with all that we have and are still going through, we see the upcoming election as an opportunity to truly vote for our values, whatever they may be out of the points listed in the petition.

In regards to this call to action, we encourage you to ask – who, out of the options on offer to vote for, is committed to making it policy that a royal commission into the government’s COVID-19 response be held as soon as possible?

The elephant in the room
COVID-19 is [one of many] elephants in the room that public figures are not committing to yet in discussions around the election. It is so completely ironic, that the very thing, the very virus, that has and is still plaguing us, is the very topic no-one wants to talk about.

Let’s change that.

We can share that we have been facing threats of censorship, and responses of silence and being silenced. We are discovering that people’s fear of the truth is stifling progress. Fear creates ripe opportunities for misinformation to propagate. Fear inhibits the capacity to learn from mistakes. Through all that we are doing, we seek to shine light on the truth so everyone can learn and respond better in the future.

It would be very convenient for a lot of people, at many levels, for people who are grieving to say nothing. To be silent. To grieve in isolation. But when government decisions contribute to the loss of people’s lives – people’s actual lives – and play a part in robbing them of their futures, there is no time left to be silent.

Speak for those who don’t have a voice
Grief does not halt for an election campaign. Nothing will change the fact that they are gone, but we can change the future by using our voices to write and speak up, by using our votes, by informing policy makers, decision makers, people in positions of power, of what can be done better next time.

Those who have died no longer have a voice. Let’s speak up for those whose voices can no longer be heard.

What you can do
There are 3 actions we invite you to consider:

1. Writing to your local member, or any politician/election candidate at a local/state/federal level. In the letter/e-mail/open letter, share how the government’s response to the pandemic has affected you personally, ask what their position is on a royal commission into COVID-19, share the petition and invite them to make a commitment, set a date, and make it policy to hold a royal commission into the government’s response to COVID-19 in Australia. It should only take a few minutes.

https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Guidelines_for_Contacting_Senators_and_Members

2. Sharing the petition on social media, with friends, neighbours, colleagues. We encourage sustainability and reducing the use of paper, however if you know of a high-traffic area with a noticeboard, you could share a hard copy there (where you are permitted do so). #auspandemicinquiry #pandemicroyalcommission

3. Writing to media outlets about your lived experience, write an open letter to the Prime Minister, open up a conversation, speak about it, now’s the time.

Current public discussion

Since we launched the petition on 25th February 2022, we observe these articles in the media – sharing them with you does not mean we endorse the commentary or media outlets – we simply want to keep you informed of current discussions:

21st March 2022, ‘Why we need an inquiry into our Covid-19 response’, by George Williams, a deputy vice-chancellor and professor of law at the University of New South Wales, The Australian.

“The [UK] inquiry will be directed to go beyond the experts. The terms of reference require it to “listen to the experiences of bereaved families and others who have suffered hardship or loss because of the pandemic”. It must also consider the experiences of health and care sector workers. This will ensure findings are informed by those who experienced loss during the pandemic and who worked tirelessly to protect the community. Australia should follow the UK lead by holding a royal commission chaired by a trusted independent figure.”

28th March 2022, ‘Vaccine rollout decisions the subject of heavily redacted emails’, 7:30 Report, ABC, Dan Conifer reporting: “[…] STEPHEN DUCKETT, GRATTAN INSTITUTE: More or less every aspect of the vaccine rollout went wrong. […]
DAN CONIFER: But after almost a year of fighting, there is one email chain that discusses mRNA vaccines which the Government is refusing to hand over. […] PETER TIMMINS, FOI ADVOCATE: In cases like this, with large amounts of money involved, with important issues that affect everyone, there should be disclosure unless the reasons why not are very compelling and they don’t seem to be in this case. […]
STEPHEN DUCKETT: The vaccine stroll out, as it is called, has been described as the greatest failure in public administration that Australia has ever had. So we’ve got to learn what went wrong and how to prevent that happening again.”

3rd April 2022, ‘It’s high time we looked at what went wrong, and right, with our COVID response’ by Bevan Shields, Sydney Morning Herald: “But there should be an official inquiry with royal commission-style powers and broad terms of reference similar to the Victorian bushfires’ inquiry. Without the ability to call evidence from state and federal governments and bureaucracies, to reveal their secrets and inquire deeply into what decisions they made and why, the chance of really understanding what we have all lived through will likely be lost.”

4th April 2022, ‘‘Short and sharp’ lessons: Experts to examine how Australia handled pandemic’ by Katina Curtis, Sydney Morning Herald: “They have also called for public input, but Professor Shergold said they don’t want the 30-page type of formal submission that organisations might typically offer to a government-run inquiry. Rather, submissions should be about 1500 words and offer an individual or organisation’s point of view on what worked, what didn’t and what could be improvised.”

7th April 2022, ‘Senior Labor figure wants the party to call a COVID royal commission’ by Katina Curtis, Sydney Morning Herald: “The call for a royal commission was one of 19 recommendations in the final report of the Senate COVID-19 committee, dominated by non-government senators, which has been examining government decisions, health advice, economic impacts and community experience throughout the pandemic. […] “We think the government’s response has been characterised by a failure to be prepared, a failure to take responsibility, and then a failure to get it right.” [Katy Gallagher].”

7th April 2022, ‘Australia’s Covid response should be examined by royal commission, Senate inquiry recommends’ by Paul Karp, The Guardian: “Australia needs a royal commission into the Covid response and should consider new laws to crack down on medical misinformation, the Senate’s Covid committee has recommended. […] The vaccine rollout “was plagued by the failure to secure enough supply and significant delays which led to every target the government set itself being missed.” […] She [Katy Gallagher] cited the Morrison government’s failures on “quarantine and vaccines”, which had caused “flow-on consequences”.”

7th April 2022, ‘Another 12 COVID-19 deaths across Victoria, NSW amid calls for royal commission into pandemic response’, SBS: “The report made 19 recommendations. Among them were calls for a royal commission into how Australia handled the pandemic, as well as greater transparency for health bodies such as the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee.”

7th April 2022, ‘Former deputy chief medical officer criticises royal commission into Covid-19’ by Courtney Gould and Catie McLeod, NCA NewsWire, News.com.au: “The government squandered important opportunities to take responsibility and learn from mistakes as Covid-19 took hold in Australia.”

8th April 2022, ‘Key takeaways from Senate COVID-19 committee final report’, ABC:
– Establishing a Centre for Disease Control (CDC).
– Royal commission into COVID handling: “Another recommendation, and also something Labor has previously called for, is a royal commission into the government’s initial and ongoing management of the pandemic. It also called for the government to begin a review of its pandemic planning, to make sure that if we are hit with another virus in the future, that we have learned from the COVID-19 experience.”
– Aged care review.
– Review into impact on First Nations communities, children.
– Stop funding the COVIDSafe app.

Once again, our sincere thanks to each of you for supporting this call.

If you would like to contribute stories about how the government’s response to the pandemic has impacted you, please reach out:

@pandemicinquiry on Twitter, @pandemicroyalcommission on Instagram.

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