The Inquiries Begin

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My first response to seeing this news is to celebrate and rejoice. My second response it to not get my hopes up. My third is to pray and call others to pray that:

- The inquiry would not be too limited. 

- The leading government officials who greatly broke the bounds of justice and equity would not get immunity. 

- The power of the commission to investigate pharmaceutical companies is used. 

- Justice is done. 

"The Federal Government will call a royal commission or similar inquiry into Australia's response to the COVID pandemic "as soon as practicable" - an inquiry which would mostly focus on the response of the Federal Government but would also look at state governments' responses to the pandemic, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has told Sunday Agenda.

Asked if such a body, when it is set up, would look only at the federal government response or also state governments, Mr Albanese said: "You'd need to look at the response of all governments."