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By Situation Theatre 26/3/2020. Updated 13/5/2020.
Nothing prepares you to solve the social and economic problems of a global pandemic quite like shipping 170 million tonnes of iron ore per annum.
Former Fortescue Metals CEO, Neville Power, handpicked by the PM to lead the COVID-19 Coordination Commission, is no pandemic expert.
However, as an ex-mining executive and current director of oil and gas company Strike Energy, he is more than qualified to do literally anything in the eyes of the Morrison Government.
For those unfairly sceptical of the PM’s attitudes towards democracy and expertise, let the five-month suspension of Parliament and the appointment of a fossil fuel fiend to manage the recovery from a public health crisis dispel your cynicism.
This whole COVID Commission idea is ridiculous: unelected, hand-picked, unaccountable. And no health professionals among them.
— Nick Feik (@NickFeik) March 25, 2020
Re-open the parliament instead. We elect MPs to coordinate national affairs. What are they doing?
If nothing, then cancel salaries. https://t.co/E5SzoQiv3p
