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Tony Abbott: Governments needs to learn from their handling of the COVID pandemic

Michael McLaren
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Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott says the government needs to learn from the actions taken during the COVID pandemic.

He notes the then-Morrison government never followed a pandemic plan and instead “panicked”.

“Why did we abandon the Pandemic plan? Well … I think that the media catastrophised the thing, politicians grotesquely over-reacted,” he said.

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