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Katy Gallagher on the senate's coronavirus watchdog
Labor's Katy Gallagher is chair of the Senate committee that will assess the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis, both its economic and health challenges. It is set for the deep dive, having a final reporting date of mid-2022.
With parliament currently sitting only in fits and starts, Gallagher considers the committee a "key accountability vehicle".
"We don't want political grandstanding, we don't want long winded political arguments, there are other forums for those," she says.
"We do expect public servants and ministers to attend with information and provide information. I don't want it to be turned into one of those committees that we see so often where we ask questions and the officials at the table work out how not to answer them"
The committee's role will be "to explore why decisions were taken and provide that conduit back to the public."
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Labor's Katy Gallagher is chair of the Senate committee that will assess the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis, both its economic and health challenges. It is set for the deep dive, having a final reporting date of mid-2022.
With parliament currently sitting only in fits and starts, Gallagher considers the committee a "key accountability vehicle".
"We don't want political grandstanding, we don't want long winded political arguments, there are other forums for those," she says.
"We do expect public servants and ministers to attend with information and provide information. I don't want it to be turned into one of those committees that we see so often where we ask questions and the officials at the table work out how not to answer them"
The committee's role will be "to explore why decisions were taken and provide that conduit back to the public."
Mentioned in this episode:
The Making of an Autocrat
Search: "The Conversation Weekly" for our new series.
Is America watching its democracy unravel in real time? In The Making of an Autocrat from The Conversation, six of the world’s pre-eminant scholars reveal the recipe for authoritarian rule. From capturing a party, to controlling the military, Donald Trump is borrowing from the playbook of strongmen thoughout history. This is the story of how democracies falter — and what might happen next.
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Support non-profit journalism you can trust.
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