COVID inquiry must be done ‘properly’ and not ‘waste everybody’s time’

The government’s COVID-19 inquiry must be done “properly”, says Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Birmingham.

His comments come as Labor announces it will investigate the previous federal government’s handling of the pandemic years.

“I think it is important that if we’re looking back at COVID it is done with appropriate expertise free of politics or partisanship,” Mr Birmingham told Sky News Australia.

“If they’re not going to do it properly, then don’t waste everybody’s time and don’t bother doing it at all.

“If it’s just a tick-a-box exercise to pretend to honour an election commitment.”

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