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No-blame inquiry Normal text size The Age, email [email protected]. Please include your home address and telephone number. No-blame inquiry There is much to support in Jeff Kennett’s views on a national inquiry into Australia’s performance during the coronavirus pandemic (‘‘Virus royal commission has much to recommend it’’, 30/12 ). Kennett’s view that an ‘‘educative’’ inquiry is needed because there could be another crisis in the future and lessons needed to be learnt may well be prescient. If a royal commission or other inquiry is eventually held, its chair and counsels assisting need to be independent and of the highest quality. The inquiry should have a no-blame culture and as Kennett says, an educative focus, learning from both the things which were done poorly as well as the things which were done well and the inquiry’s outcomes should produce templates for nationally co-ordinated disaster plans, border closures, testing regime ....
The government must talk to church leaders We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss The government must talk to church leaders December 16, 2020 11.43pm Normal text size Credit:Illustration: Andrew Dyson To submit a letter to The Age, email [email protected]. Please include your home address and telephone number. THE CONVERSION BILL The government must talk to church leaders Barney Zwartz’s article (Comment, 15/12) raises deeply troubling issues about the Victorian government’s potential attack on religious freedoms within its conversion therapy prohibition bill. If this is enacted as it stands, according to Zwartz, it could interfere with or limit many basic religious practices, areas which are none of government’s business. ....