Nick Cater, Senior Fellow of the Menzies Research Institute, journalist and ADH TV contributor, writes about what will apparently pass as an 'inquiry' into the draconian Covid debacle thus: "The Covid inquiry's success hinges on whether it reduces the power of government agencies to curtail the behaviour of the many in response to the assumed superior wisdom of the few".

With the inquiry recently being described as a "protection racket for Labor premiers" , and Albanese's seeming lack of interest in and respect for Australians, I don't think that sort of success is intended. It could all happen again, under any number of excuses.

Cater is of a 'wait and see mind', but he does question what this panel can tell us that we don't already know about the many things that our governments "got wrong" in the pandemic.

. How did they fail to learn from their mistakes?
. How did they insulate themselves from realistic feedback?

The government and 'experts':-

. Hung onto a set of "flawed assumptions".
. They arrogantly ignored "discordant facts".
. They rejected contrary opinions.

Over the three years of "expert tyranny", we have learned that "discordant voices must not only be heard but encouraged". And that the assumption of "perfect knowledge by the expert class" leads to "catastrophic policy errors".

The measures that the "anointed" have taken over the last 250 years to defend the prevailing vision "reached a watershed" during Covid, with the "narrowing focus" of the mainstream media and the collusion of Big Tech.

The Covid experience should be enough to knock in the head the Combating Misinformation and Disinformation Bill, according to Nick Cater.

There's more. An interesting read for the non-ideological driven open minded.

https://www.menziesrc.org/news-feed/covid-censorship-and-global-groupthink-under-scrutiny

Why bother about the COVID show, concentrate on the next one & tell us up front about the right way to deal with it ?
Let's see what these experts can up with in foresight mode instead of wasting our Dollars with hindsight !

If there is a next time - a different set of scaremongers is telling us there will be - we want to be assured that it won't be mishandled like the Covid debacle was.

It seems that the Albanese whitewash will not give us that assurance. It needs to be talked about, hammered, until our political class gets the message that this is not China or Russia, and that we, the people, are the ones who decide if they keep the jobs or not.

Remember that secret ballot, and how we decide how to fill it in, not them.

this is not China or Russia,
ttbn,
Try tell a virus !

If there is a next time - a different set of scaremongers is telling us there will be - we want to be assured that it won't be mishandled like the Covid debacle was.
ttbn,
That sentence tells me already that the next round will be handled no different !

Indyvidual

Yep. And it seems that posters here don't care. Fortunately, people in the real world do, particularly those who actually read, and those who follow the growing alternative media. All is not lost.