How you can ensure a COVID-19 Royal Commission is effective

The Friday 12th January deadline approaches .... so please take action today

As yet, no Royal Commission has been set up to investigate how the covid pandemic was handled in Australia.

Of course we need one! Actions such as lockdowns, border closures, the mass rollout of genetic vaccines, mandated vaccination and masks were unprecedented. We must assess their effects in a thorough and scientific manner.

In late October Senator Malcolm Roberts of One Nation took a vital first step. He put a motion before the Senate to set up a committee to produce the Terms of Reference for a COVID-19 Royal Commission, and it was agreed to.

Terms of Reference set out the scope of any commission and they raise questions that it will seek to answer, so, while it may sound boring, it’s very important.

The deadline to submit your ideas for the Terms of Reference - which could be as simple as one question you want investigated - is this Friday 12th January - presumably just before midnight (although I have not seen this stated anywhere).

There are two things you can do. One will take you less than five minutes. How long the other takes is up to you, but if you care deeply about what happened, it is a great way to do something about it.

I’m hoping you might want to do both!

1. Co-sign this extensive submission - less than 5 minutes to do!

Australian and New Zealand lawyers Julian Gillespie, Peter Fam, and Katie Ashby-Koppens have been working with a group of Australian doctors, scientists, data analysts and economists to create proposed Terms of Reference for a Royal Commission.

The aim is to ensure the Commission is properly empowered and given clear instructions about what needs to be examined and investigated.

Please visit the Terms of Reference created for the Australian People, review the Terms of Reference, and if you agree with them, show your support by becoming a Co-Signatory.

This has been a huge amount of work (60 days!) done for no remuneration by Julian Gillespie and his team, so if you are glad it has been done, please buy them a coffee.

I became involved in helping with this submission very late in the piece and am proud to be listed as a co-author, although my contribution was small.

I felt I could add some value because of my work over the past two years on the Australian Survey of Reasons for COVID-19 Vaccination, vaccine mandates and excess deaths (via the book ‘Too Many Dead’ published by the Australian Medical Professionals’ Society and the Excess Death Stats project).

2. Send in your own submission

If you would like to do this, good on you!!

My colleague Geoff Pain (who is, I believe, a very distant relation of my husband’s) gives great advice on how to do this in his Substack article, written shortly after Senator Roberts’ motion was passed.

12 January 2024 Deadline Covid-19 Royal Commission Terms of Reference in Australia

By the way, generally one is only allowed to make one submission. But being a co-signatory or even a co-author on the Julian Gillespie-led submission does not preclude you from sending in your own submission. I was told this by a very helpful person when I called the Senate’s Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee today (Monday 8th January). The two submissions are regarded as being different - one being from a group, and one from you.

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