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Former prime minster Tony Abbott fears the government's over the top response to the COVID-19 pandemic will be used as the model for future pandemics.
It follows former health minister Greg Hunt’s attack on states and territories over their 'unilateral' health decisions during the pandemic.
“My fear is that without a fair dinkum royal commission type inquiry into the whole response to COVID, next time a pandemic happens, and it will, we’ll take the over-the-top response to this one as the model for all future actions,” Mr Abbott told Sky News host Peta Credlin.
“The last thing we want to be is locked up for several years again in response to a disease that turned out to be relatively mild.
“I’m confident that inside the Coalition a lot of these issues would have been more debated than they seemed on the surface.”