Australia's Covid commission risks 'subversion' of democracy, academic warns

The government’s Covid-19 commission poses an enduring risk to Australian democracy and must be overhauled, including by the creation of a public and mandatory conflict-of-interest register, a new paper has warned.

A University of Melbourne policy brief scrutinising the functioning of the National Covid-19 Commission advisory board found the body suffered from a lack of transparency, had no legislative underpinning, and had not employed an independent appointment process to select its members.




The head of the National Covid-19 Coordination Commission, Nev Power (left), and the prime minister, Scott Morrison

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