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'We will never forget': PM Anthony Albanese launches COVID-19 preparedness inquiry
Australian Community Media
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9/21/2023
The latest inquiry will consolidate the more than 20 investigations that have already taken place in order to examine the nation's preparedness for any future pandemics.
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Today we have an announcement of the COVID-19 inquiry.
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That is important that it take place.
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We said before the election and I have said since, given the enormous dislocation, the
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stress, the of course loss of life, the economic impact of the pandemic, it is appropriate
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that when we reach the certain period that we would have an inquiry.
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It is a commitment I made before the election and one of the things that we have been doing
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is ticking off all those commitments that we have made.
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Yesterday, five and a half million Australians enjoyed an increase to their payments.
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We for the first time an additional 65,000 single mums got access to the single parenting
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payment.
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Making these changes are making a difference.
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We are making sure that we deal with cost of living pressures.
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Of course, Australians will recall, will never forget, what the country went through in 2020
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and 2021 in particular.
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It was a time where Australians joined together.
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They made sacrifices to help each other.
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They sacrificed some of the normal activity that would go on and it was a very disruptive
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period in our lives but we got through it and we got through it in a way that was positive
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in most respects but we need to examine what went right, what could be done better with
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a focus on the future because the health experts and the science tells us that this pandemic
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may well be, indeed is not likely to be the last one that occurs.
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So that's why better preparedness is very important.
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So the inquiry that we're announcing today will look at as well the more than 20 inquiries
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that have already happened by people like Dr Peter Shergold and the other inquiries
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that have occurred across states and territories and the Commonwealth up to now.
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Bring them all together in a consolidated way but also look at new information which
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will occur.
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